Comments on: WEBoggle – Ajax Multiplayer Boggle

By: karen

karen — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:59:42 +0000

The problem with Weboggle is that words that are counted are not real words in many instances. They are often acronyms or variants of old english synonyms or abbreviations. You get the drift. Basically if you want to win and you don’t want to cheat, you have to memorize their “words”. Irritating, to say the least. I’ve sent comments but they never answer. sigh

By: holly

holly — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:24:13 +0000

This is an addictive game, but the cheaters spoil it the fun somewhat. It’s a great training program for your mind, and is a nice alternative to solitaire.

By: Kewlio

Kewlio — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 04:30:09 +0000

My new addiction!

Weboggle! I first head about it on Ajaxian. I read about it. Then I played it. Now, I’m addicted to it! I don’t know why really. It’s not that interesting or fun really. And I’m really bad at it. But, oh well. I’m an

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By: Simon Willison

Simon Willison — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:30:30 +0000

I’m pretty sceptical of Ajax for multiplayer games of this kind, purely because they make it trivial to cheat through the creation of bots. At least with Java applets there’s a non-trivial reverse engineering step required – Ajax games can be scripted with tools such as Greasemonkey in a way that is practically impossible to detect.