Excalibur electronic 477ET-CS manual How to Play

	How to Play
After inserting				batteries
and pressing RESET button,
you can press the				ON button
to turn on the unit. You will
see the game level ‘L1’
flashing on the screen. There
are two levels to be selected
and you can’t take back your
previous move in the level
L2. You can select L1 or L2
to play by pressing the
SELECT or		LEFT/RIGHT button
with the stylus and press
ON/START		button	to confirm
to play. In your backgammon
game, you play against the
computer		and the		computer
always plays first. You must
roll dice for yourself and for
the computer by pressing the
DICE	button. The black head
represents		the	computer’s
side and the white head rep-
resents your side.
When it is your turn to
move	your checker, simply
press	DICE to roll the dice for
yourself. The two dice will
flash	their numbers. Then

move your checker on your two dice.

There are two methods to select a checker. One method is:

Press the point which you have checker on it. The small hand icon is on the point from which you want to move a checker. Then press the point you want to move the checker to.

The other method is:

You may press the

button, then you will SELECTsee the small hand icon appear on the first point which you have checker on it (the top right position). Now you can press

button again to move theSELECTsmall hand icon to the next point which you have checker on it. You press button once the small handSELECTicon will move to next point until to the last point (the bottom right position). If you press again the points that there is the small hand icon appear, the small hand will disappear. After you fin-

8 ish your turn, press DICE to

roll the dice for the computer again.

After you selecting the checker you want to move, you can move the checker with two methods.

One method is:

Press the point where you want to move to upon the dice you rolled.

The other method is:

Press the or button to moveLEFTthe checkerRIGHT upon the dice you rolled. If you can’t move the checker upon the dice you rolled, it will turn to the computer automatically.

If you move over 5 check- ers in a point, the bottom checker of the point will flash to show. You must move all your checkers to your inner home table, and bear off them quickly to win the com- puter.

You can begin to bear off

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the checkers from the board when all your 15 checkers have been moved into your inner home table.

There are two methods to
bear off your checkers.
One method is:
Press the LEFT or RIGHT
button to move the checker
upon the dice you rolled.
The other is:		to bear
Press the REMOVE
off the checkers.		finished
The player that
bearing off all 15 checkers
first wins the game. Then the
head and ‘WIN’ icon will
flash on the screen with a
winning	melody. You can
press the	START button to
start a new game.

If no buttonPowerisOffpressed for about 3 minutes, the unit will

power automatically. You canOFFpress the button to turn it on andONcontinue your last game.