Inspired by this puzzle, I created (or discovered) these grids.
Within each Boggle board is a set of words with a common theme.
To make a word in Boggle, connect some letters horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, without using the same letter twice.
Some of these grids contain blanks indicated by the question mark (?
) that you need to fill with a letter. Digraphs are not used here.
Some of these grids may be too large (or unsuitable) for a real Boggle set.
Grid 1
E T H
A R E
W I F
Grid 2
. T H .
R U S A
N O E W
Grid 3
. L I R
D E F G
N O H T
W P U .
Grid 4 -- Thanks to ColorfulGalaxy from Esolangs.org for providing this grid.
G I R P
N E W S
M T U .
U M . ?
Grid 5
. D A T .
N F I ? L
C I T A R
. . N P .
Grid 6
E E K I B
U O N G S
? W O H
A P R T
Grid 7
. S N F .
L E I N O
E V E X U
W T I R O
O G H E ?
Grid 8
T H N O
A U D I M
E S R A
N D ? F
E W
Grid 9
A P . . . .
B P D . . .
A R E N O .
? A T N U C
T H I E G F
. U S R L .
Grid 10
. T H F O C N
S C E ? M T O
U N R A P E V
A G U R Y E C
. J I L D S .
Task:
Fill in each blank with a proper letter and find the theme.
Hint 1:
There are no spare letters in the grids.
Hint 2:
Grid 9 contains either 4 or 5 words that fit the theme, depending on how you treat this grid.
Hint 3:
Grid 1 contains 5 words that fit the theme, three of which have five letters each.
Hint 4:
The number of words in the solution to Grid 9 is either 4 or 5, depending on whether you treat the hyphenated word as one word or two words.
Hint 5:
The words in Grid 9 make up something more like a sequence than a set.