BOGEST is shareware.  If you continue to use BOGEST after your evaluation of
it, you should send $10.00 (less if it's worth less to you) to: 

ESTill Duggins
1305 Skyridge Drive
Pittsburgh PA 15241

Phone (412) 221-8738

Compuserve:  72763,1375

Mount the supplied disk,  goto program manager in windows and type:
    A:\setup or b:\setup (use the drive where letter you mounted the disk)


See Bogest.hlp for the latest instructions.

BOGEST is similar to the Milton Bradley word game BOGGLE.
The object of the game is to spell as many words as possible in a 4x4 grid.
Each word must contain at least 3 letters.
One point is scored for each letter over 2 in the word.

Letters in the word must be formed from adjacent letters in the grid.

       D R O W              
       W O R D              
       G A M E                                     d R
       E M A G                                     W O

If you start with D in the upper left corner the letters R in the first 
row and  W O in the second row are the only possible 2nd letters of a word. 

Using O as the 2nd letter, the 3rd letter in the word can only be:

    d R O 
    W o R
    G A M
R or O in the 1st row, W or R in the 2nd row, and G, A or M in the 3rd 
row.  D in the first row is not allowed because it has already been 
used in the word.

Using a mouse to select letters:
Left click to select a letter, right click to signal a complete word 
or click in the frame surrounding the letter squares to signal the 
complete word. 

You can use BOGEST without a mouse by using the  "alt" key and the
underlined character to focus on a command button. Sometimes you 
must follow this with an "enter" to activate the command.

When you are building words:

Use the enter key to select a letter square when that square has the
focus. 

To change the focus from one square to an adjacent square
several options(none very satisfactory) are available.

If "numlock" is on you can use the arrow keys on  the numeric keypad
to position the focus within the letter matrix.(don't forget the 
"enter" key to select the letter) 

In all cases use the "shift" key after you complete a word.

Other options to move the focus within the letter matrix are:

1. Use the regular arrow keys to position the focus.

2. Use the "I" and "K" keys for up and down and "J" and "L"
for left and right.
 
3. Use 2 digit numbers  representing the desired position in
the letter matrix as follows:  

        11 12 13 14
        21 22 23 24
        31 32 33 34
        41 42 43 44


The computer only looks for 3,4,5 and 6 letter words so you can get
a better score than the computer by making longer words. You will find
it difficult to beat the computer unless you adjust the options on
the options screen to restrict either the time allowed for the computer
and/or the length of words the computer is allowed to look for.

All the .txt files can be modified with almost any text
file editor, if for instance you wish to delete some words 
from the dictionary, or give yourself an unbelievable score
on the high score chart, etc.   


if you want the computer to beep when you make a word that 
isn't in the dictionary you can turn off the option to add
words to the dictionary.  This is a good idea if you are 
having trouble with moving and clicking the cursor because 
the beep will alert you to a possible miscue with the cursor
so you can enter the word again.

FILES

BOG_DICT.TXT - Dictionary - one  word per record
               The words are generally from the 
               Official Scrabble Players Dictionary - 1978
               The complete dictionary is not included.

BOGCUBES.TXT - 80 6 character records, the first 16 records represent
               the standard bogest letter squares. The position of each
               square in the game matrix is randomly selected.  1 of the 6
               characters is randomly selected for each letter square.
               The other 64 records are 4 alternate sets.   
               If you wanted a foreign language version, you could 
               populate one of these sets with characters corresponding
               to the observed frequencies of each letter in the foreign
               language dictionary.

BOGSCORE.TXT - 12 records, first 5 are the highest 1 round scores achieved
               next 5 are the highest 4 round scores. Each record 
               contains a score and a name separated by a comma.
               last 2 records have option settings. # of rounds,
               add new words,beep,saveOptions,button face(Q or QU),
               seconds per round-player.
               Last record 4 settings to indicate computer searching for
               3, 4, 5, and 6 letter words, seconds per round-computer,
               disappearing switch. 

BOGPLAYR.TXT   1 record for each player(51 max). each record contains
               Player name, high 1 round score and high 4 round score
               separated by commas. 

BOGEST.EXE     The compiled visual basic program file.

VBRUN300.DLL   Runtime routines for visual basic compiled programs. 

BOREADME.TXT   this file