Have you ever played the word game Boggle? There are between 16 and 25 cubes with letters on all sides. You score points by coming up with words. Longer words count for more points. The catch is that any word found by other players doesn't count. It pays to be unique. It also pays to find the harder, longer words.
Players generally sit opposite from each other. With more than two players, each player gets oriented to a specific side of the board. A sample is shown here:
You could imagine four players with each sitting at a point on the compass: north, south, east, and west.
Whenever I've played, I always find that for some reason it is much easier to visualize certain words in your head if they are closer to your side or if they are oriented so that they are "upright" in your direction. As shown, this would be your view if you were playing from the "south" position. Here is how it might look if you were across from this player:
Which view do you find easier? Do you notice that there are different words that seem to jump out at you.
Sometimes, it takes a different perspective to see the answers. Nothing about the board changed except your view!
By the way, I do see a few six-letter words (spiker, thrips, traits). 3 points each (but only if you didn't find them, too).
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