Boggle

***Boggle*** is an unsold pilot based on the classic word game. The concept of a *Boggle* game show later came to reality in 1994 as *Boggle: The Interactive Game*. In 2019, Continental Broadcasting Company announced plans of reviving the game, going back to the original unsold pilot concept, with Yolanda Vega serving as host.

## Gameplay

Two husband-wife teams competed. As in the classic game, the object was to find words in a grid of letters. Each letter in a valid word touches each other by side or by corner, and while letters in valid words can repeat, no individual space could be used more than once in a single word.

### Main Game

Three different puzzles were played in sequence.

#### Long Boggle

A 4-by-4 grid of letters was displayed, and the first and last letters of a 10-letter word were highlighted and marked. Letters in the word and inbetween were highlighted one at a time, working inward from alternate ends, until one team buzzed-in. Correctly solving the word won the word, but a miss gave the opponents a chance to solve it. The first team to solve won $100 and a chance to play Pressure Boggle to build up their bank.

#### Pressure Boggle

A new 4-by-4 grid was displayed, and the team that had won the Long Boggle word had 30 seconds to find as many words as possible. Each one must be at least three letters. The two players alternated turns throughout. When finding a word, a player must say the word and spell it out. Like in the board game, each letter in all valid words was worth a point and the teams were paid $10 a point for a minimum of $30.

#### Big Boggle

If the team playing Pressure Boggle scored $200 or more, they won the right to play this puzzle where they had a chance to win the game by finding a five letter word. On each attempt, a row of five cubes with randomly shuffling letters appeared. They shouted "stop" to freeze that row which was placed in a grid. The first row went to the bottom of the grid, while each new row after it was placed on top of the previous one. If the team could form a word of five letters or more, they won the game.

If the team in control of Pressure Boggle either scored less than $200 or could not find a winning word in the Big Boggle grid, a new Long Boggle puzzle was played to restart the cycle.

The team that wins the game kept the cash and went on to play for $25,000.

### Bonus Game

The winning team faced a grid of 16 numbered squares, on which the first and last letters of a five-letter word were revealed. Hidden behind other numbers were a set of eight other letters; three of them belong in the word and the other five did not. Behind the remaining numbers were six bombs. The team chose one number at a time until they had uncovered the entire word, at which point they had to call it out.

Once the team solved a word, and if they uncovered any bombs, the winning couple then had to roll a black cube, marked with the letters in the word BOGGLE. They get one roll for every bomb they found on that board. Letters were marked off as they were rolled; while repeat letters were declared safe. If the team completed the word, the bonus round ended immediately and they forfeited their bonus winnings from it; and likewise if they survive all the rolls for that round or if they found the word without uncovering any bombs, they win money for that round. After surviving a round, the team could either end the round and keep their winnings or play the next word up to four. If the team solved all four words and avoid spelling "Boggle", they won the $25,000.

The prize levels were as follows:

 Word #1
 Word #2
 Word #3
 Word #4