Boggle Solver

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name: boggle

description: Solve Boggle boards — find all valid words (German + English) on a 4x4 letter grid. Use when the user shares a Boggle photo, asks for words on a grid, or plays word games. Includes 1.7M word dictionaries (DE+EN).

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# Boggle Solver

Fast trie-based DFS solver with dictionary-only matching. No AI/LLM guessing — words are validated exclusively against bundled dictionaries (359K English + 1.35M German).

Workflow (from photo)

1. **Read the 4x4 grid** from the photo (left-to-right, top-to-bottom)

2. **Show the grid to the user and ask for confirmation** before solving

3. Only after user confirms → run the solver

4. **Always run English and German SEPARATELY** — present as two labeled sections (🇬🇧 / 🇩🇪)

Solve a board

# English
python3 skills/boggle/scripts/solve.py ELMU ZBTS ETVO CKNA --lang en

# German
python3 skills/boggle/scripts/solve.py ELMU ZBTS ETVO CKNA --lang de

Each row is one argument (4 letters). Or use `--letters`:

python3 skills/boggle/scripts/solve.py --letters ELMUZBTSETVOCKNA --lang en

Options

| Flag | Description |

|---|---|

| `--lang en/de` | Language (default: en; **always run EN and DE separately**) |

| `--min N` | Minimum word length (default: 3) |

| `--json` | JSON output with scores |

| `--dict FILE` | Custom dictionary (repeatable) |

Scoring (standard Boggle)

How it works

Data

Dictionaries are auto-downloaded from GitHub on first run if missing.

Performance