Foreign-language Boggle
Like Peter Biddle, I like Boggle a lot. Since I've been studying a lot of languages lately, I often notice non-English words when I play, but I'm not allowed to count them. I was thinking that it would be fun at a language class or at an event for foreign-language students to try to actually play Boggle in another language. (The letter distributions are a bit of a problem. Other languages don't have the same letter frequencies as English, and the mere appearance of a "K" or "W" in Latin, for example, would be bad news.)
I tried three minutes or so on a random English Boggle board to see how I would do in Latin, and here's what I came up with.
IBEG FGSN VAAM DSTA
das, dat, data, fas, fata, mane, manes, nata, natas, nega, negas, sane, sat, vas, vasa
It turns out that "saga" is a word, but I didn't know it at the time. Also, I missed "ens", "figas", "figat", "gens", "maga", "magas", "mage", "magi", "negat", "negata", "sata", "sta", "stans", "tange", "tanges", "vaga", "vagas", "vasta", and "vastas". That's all I've been able to find so far.
