While the actual rules for playing Boggle are fairly simple, being able to succeed and win requires a bit more strategy. If you were to ask them, the best Boggle players would almost certainly admit to doing a lot of the same things each time they play. The following are a collection of these basic Boggle hints which are sure to improve your score by a few points. Try implementing a couple of these tips each time you play Boggle and your enjoyment of the game will only increase.

• Plural form: Once you find a word on the Boggle board, always make sure to search for the plural form also (ie. cat and cats). Missing the plural form of a word is a common rookie mistake!
• Past tense: If you find one Boggle word, check to see if other tenses exist (ie. tie and tied). Similar to looking for plural words, if there’s a “d” or “ed” available on the Boggle board, it’s likely you can form many past tense variants.
• Expand the word: After finding a short Boggle word, see if you can add letters to make it into an even longer word (ie. act and react).
• Find a word within the word: After finding a long Boggle word, see if there are any words within the word (ie. train and rain, or play and lay…and plays and lays and may, etc.). Add suffixes or prefixes.
• Rhyming words: Look for Boggle words that rhyme, like cat, mat, hat, sat, flat, spat, etc.
• Don’t watch the timer: Keep an eye of the timer while playing Boggle, but don’t focus on it too much or it will distract you.