The object of the game is to find as many English words as possible in the letter matrix within three minutes. Each word must be made up of a sequence of adjacent or diagonal letters in the matrix, but without any repeated letter-positions. If you come up with a valid word in the matrix before anyone else, the bot gives you points.
Longer words score more points.
Whoever has the most points after three minutes wins the game. Well, it turns out that quite a few people spend quite a bit of time playing IRC Boggle, and a lot of them are quite good. I, on the other hand, had never played before, and was terrible. Now, I'm not a sore loser normally, but after 10 games I started getting a little tired of losing so terribly, and I realized that it would probably be pretty easy to write a simple program that would find words in the matrix faster than any human possibly could. In a little over an hour, I whipped up a program that did exactly that.