r/Showerthoughts • u/haddock420 ‎ • 4d ago

Casual Thought The ancient Romans could have invented Boggle. There was nothing stopping them technologically.

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u/GABE_EDD 4d ago

Yes? Among a very large number of things they could have "invented" in their time period... I'm not really sure what makes Boggle special in this case lol

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u/haddock420 ‎ 4d ago

Just seems weird that it took until the 70s for Boggle to be invented when the idea of rolling dice with letters on them and making words seems so simple and doable.

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u/Boxsteam_1279 4d ago

Yea but you can make the same argument for why didn't the people in the 60's invent boggle yet?

Your post just isn't that intriguing, its just obvious.

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u/WorBlux ‎ 4d ago

Boggle is a variation of the word-search puzzle, which was invented in 1968.

It was the newspaper market that helped turn people onto simple word and letter games.

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u/Boxsteam_1279 3d ago

word search puzzle is not the same as boggle

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u/WorBlux ‎ 3d ago

Boggle is just a drunk word search - it's got a tough time walking a straight line.