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A puzzle with a solution is a game. A puzzle without a solution is a work of art.
It's a silly old game.
Games are among the most interesting creations of the human mind, and the analysis of their structure is full of adventure and surprises. Unfortunately there is never a lack of mathematicians for the job of transforming delectable ingredients into a dish that tastes like a damp blanket.
Just remember, golf is flog spelled backwards.
Juggling is sometimes called the art of controlling patterns, controlling patterns in time and space.
Whats the name you Poms have for that thing where you jump up and down and hit each other with sticks?"
"Sex?"
"Gardening?"
He snapped his fingers. "Morris dancing.
No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed to him like a game designed expressly to make him feel stupid and bored.
This is the story of a man who went far away for a long time, just to play a game. The man is a game-player called 'Gurgeh'. The story starts with a battle that is not a battle, and ends with a game that is not a game. Me? I'll tell you about me later. This is how the story begins.
If I wanted to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube
Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.
A chess tournament disguised as a circus.
Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.
Dont you know... I'm the boggyman."-St. Dane
Cheat at this game.
The romantic interplay that we were having wasn't the real game
it was a modified version of the game. It was a version invented for two friends so that they can get some practice and pass the time divertingly while they eat in the station for their train to arrive
Interesting little game we play with each other.
A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
The name of the game is no-limit Texas Hold'em, the game that takes a minute to learn but a lifetime to master.
fiddlesticks" and
They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.
I play chicken with the train
If Chess is the switch," Loretta said, "how does he turn the Fog off?"
Bea bit her lower lip. "I don't know - ask Chess."
"How would I know?" I said. "You try being a switch.
If you were a game, Silas, you'd be Monopoly. You just go on and on and everyone ends up cheating just to be over with it.
a confused heap of mingle-mangle").
Zugzwang. It's when you have no good moves. But you still have to move.
The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed.
The pitcher setting up the batter. It's chess, and you play with it.
Rowdy and I played one-on-one for hours. we played until dark. we played until the streetlights lit up court. we played until the bats swooped down at our heads. we played until the moon was huge and golden and perfect in the dark sky.
we didn't keep score.
Googol?' 'That's a one with one hundred zeroes after it.
Joke:
What was the octopus's favorite game at the beach BBQ?
Tidal Pool Twister
What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?
What, playing with cards?" "It's a special kind of playing," said Twoflower. "It's called - " he hesitated. Language wasn't his strong point. "In your language it's called a thing you put across a river, for example," he concluded, "I think.
Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
Discovered check is the dive bomber of the Chessboard
Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit.
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed.
Wiggle like a stick, wobble like a duck, that's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck.
I went to watch the Buzkasgu game taking place on a series of fields - some fallow, some plowed and planted- just to the east of the empty Buddha niches. Buzkashi is a form of polo played with a dead goat instead of a ball.
Mr. Fogg played, not to win, but for the sake of playing.
I could juggle anything in my day. Balls, cigar boxes, knives ... But there was one thing I could never juggle. My income tax.
Golf is a game in which you yell 'Fore!', shoot six, and write down five.
They might play Extinctathon, or one of the others. Three-Dimensional Waco, Barbarian Stomp, Kwiktime Osama. They all used parallel strategies: you had to see where you were headed before you got there, but
fishhook. It's squiggly like a worm. Something's
Golf is the Great Mystery.
This maybe a game, but it isn't meant to be played
We were great builders, but one day we decided to play a game. We did it voluntarily; were we such good builders that we could build a maze with a way out but which constantly changed so that, despite the way out, in effect there was no way out for us ...
Mulligan: invented by an Irishman who wanted to hit one more twenty yard grounder.
G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole.
Wiggle 'til you're high, wiggle 'til you're higher, wiggle 'til you vomit fire.
If I see three oranges, I have to juggle. And if I see two towers, I have to walk.
A winner keeps playing until the winning shot.
Ambiguity - the Devil's volleyball.
You know what the game of golf is, don't you? It's basketball for people who can't jump and chess for people who can't think.
The best game to play, he thought, is the game you don't realize you are playing.
A hundred quintillion googols!
Me and Tricky like playing with each other.
Ai taught me a Terran game played on squares with little stones, called go, an excellent difficult game.
Jean-Luc glanced at the coach. "Who is that man? What is that machine?"
"It's a dunking booth."
"Ah, I understand." Jean-Luc nodded. "If he dose not drown, then he is a witch"
"No, he's just a creep. It's a game.
I batted my eyelashes and did my best to appear dumb as a board
The Springboard. Denning
Making knots. Making knots. No word. Making knots. Tick-tock. This is a clock. Do not think of Gale. Do not think of Peeta. Making knots.
One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.
I'm standing on my Monopoly board that means I'm on top of my game
Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they going? What were they looking for? I wanted to hear their heartbeats, and I wanted them to hear mine.
Sometimes I lie awake ay night, and I wonder, "is life like golf or is it more like baseball?" Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "try shuffleboard.
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down.
If only there were a game whose winning required a gift for the identification of missed opportunities and of things lost and irrecoverable, a knack for the belated recognition of truths, for the exploitation of chances in imagination after it's too late!
I think I know what it is but don't ask me to play it
I started juggling a long time ago, but long before that, I was a golfer, and that's what I was: a golfer. And as a golfer and as a kid, one of the things that really sort of seeped into my pores, that I sort of lived my whole life, is process. And it's the process of learning things.
Discombobulated.
It's just a two-man con," said Shadow. "Like the bishop and the diamond necklace and the cop. Like the guy with the fiddle, and the guy who wants to buy the fiddle, and the poor sap in between them who pays for the fiddle. Two men, who appear to be on opposite sides, playing the same game.
It can't be a great cosmic game of chess, it has to be just very complicated Solitaire.
People say they throwing a bboy jam but it is really a bboy competition, there's a difference! Call it the correct thing, please!
After playing Ballybunion for the first time, a man would think that the game of golf originated here.
There is a game in England, or there was when I was growing up, called What's the Time, Mister Wolf? It's
The world is not likely to tire of an amusement which never repeats itself, of a game which today presents features as novel and charms as fresh as those with which it delighted, in the morning of history, the dwellers on the banks of the Ganges and Indus.
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated.
Children's games constitute the most admirable social institutions. The game of marbles, for instance, as played by boys, contains an extremely complex system of rules - that is to say, a code of laws, a jurisprudence of its own.
Low gravity Monopoly is better than the Monopoly you play round the kitchen table, in that it only lasts a few minutes.
The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.
Since when do we even play games?"
"Since when don't we play games? Games of life, games of death. Games of love, of hope, of chance, of despair, and of all the myriad wonders in between."
I rolled my eyes at the newcomer. "Hello, Carter.
Playing tricks on me, using a pair of
Sometimes, all company forsaking,
They settle to a game of chess
And, leaning on a table, guess
What move the other may be making,
And Lensky with a dreamy look,
Allows his pawn to take his rook.
What are we, if we don't have games?"
"Something else.
He was a dandy with on eear cocked, a gleam on his claw and a glint in his eye. He sauntered through the market square elegant and tattered, admired and cursed: a highwayman, a gentleman thief. His name was Taggle, for the three kittens had been Raggle, Taggle, and Bone.
Night and day a picture of the showcase of the Lame Novelty Company and its gambling content would seem to appear before my eyes. Then I realized that I could not rest content and continue practising to become a magician until I knew what those gambling gimmicks in that showcase click.
And he calls it playing? Like, whatever happened to chess? Or cards? Or tag?
As far as the game of marbles is concerned, there is therefore no contradiction between the egocentric practice of games and the mystical respect entertained for rules. This respect is the mark of a mentality fashioned, not by free cooperation between equals, but by adult constraint.
It's a form of mental and verbal gymnastics, and one of the things that appeals to me most about commenting on darts is that no one knows exactly what I'm going to come out with next - and neither do I.
Chess is a game with simple rules and pieces, a small sixty-four-space board, but there are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe.
Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.
The world sometimes seems a chessboard where the pieces move themselves. I'm never sure what square to go to. Yet it can't be a difficult game, most folk play it instinctively.
You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
Hold'em is to stud what chess is to checkers.
playing patience,
Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier.
There are many games I love to play. Which one I put on the table depends on the mood and the level of experience of my opponents; I don't have a clear favorite.
Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.
From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars