Excalibur electronic ET454 manual Press Enter Screen

Press Enter screen will be shown.

Before you press START, you may press TIMER and change from using no timer, to a timer between 1 and 5 minutes. Press the desired timer digit, or press OFF to not use the timer. Press to return to the Start Menu.

Before you press START, you may repeat- edly press GRID to change between 3X3, 4X4, or 5X5. These are the three letter grid sizes. When 5X5 is selected, three-letter words are not accepted as valid.

Before you press START, you may repeat- edly press NINER to change between ON or OFF. When on, a nine-letter word will be embedded into the letter square. When off, a nine-letter word might occur but it is not guaranteed as it is when this option is on.

Before you press START, press the NEW key or the key to return to the Home Menu.

Press Enter Screen

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The object of this game is to make as many words as you can from a square grid of letter cells. However, the selected

letter cells on the grid must be adjacent

or diagonal to each other. For 3x3 and 4x4 grids, the words must use three or more letters. If the grid size is 5x5, the words must use four letters or more. On this screen the letters on the grid are hid- den with a on each grid letter position.

The … area on the bottom line is called the Spelled Word line. The number of boxes on the Spelled Word line is the length of the longest word that can be made from the letters in the square grid.

The number of words that can be made with the grid letters is shown on the right side of the screen. The above sample screen shows there are 1 [six-letter], 4 [five-letter], 14 [four-letter], and 9 [three- letter] words that can be made with the grid letters. This, possible words to be made display, is updated as you make words, so you will always know how many words are left to be made.

Pressing on a grid letter will cause it to move to the Spelled Word line. You can take back the last placed spelled letter by pressing on it, and it will return to the grid. If you would like to return all your spelled letters to the grid, simply press

the key.

Once you have spelled your word, press the ENTER key. If it is a valid word from the over 47,000-word vocabulary, it will be scored, the count of words using its letter length will be reduced, and finally the letters will be returned to the grid. If it is not a valid word, a ? will be dis- played.

If you have not turned the timer off, the amount of time you have to make words will be shown on the clock display.

You will also see your initial zero score, which will be updated as you make words. Longer letter length words receive more points. If you do well and achieve a good score, you will be given a Bonus Round with a new grid of letters and more time to make words and add to

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