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.
