Playing the Games
Picking Levels and Games
You can pick a skill level before you play or during a game. If you pick a level during a game, the new level does not take effect until the next round begins.
• To pick a skill level, first press SKILL . Then highlight a level and
press ENTER to select it.
•To pick a game, first press GAMES . Then highlight a game and press
ENTER to start playing.
Playing Hangman
Hangman challenges you to guess a mystery word, indicated by ?’s, be- fore the little man is hanged. Simply type your letter guesses. The num- ber of wrong guesses you can make appears to right of the #’s.
To end a round, press ? ✱ . To view the thesaurus entry of the word, press ENTER . Then press BACK to go back to the game.
Playing the Games
Playing Anagrams
Anagrams challenges you to find anagrams of a word. (An anagram is a word formed from all or some of the letters of another word.)
To play, type an anagram and then press ENTER . Use the arrows to view anagrams you’ve already en- tered.
To end a round and reveal the re- maining anagrams, press ? ✱ . After a round , you can press ENTER and to highlight a word. Then press
ENTER to view its thesaurus entry. Press BACK to go back to the game.
NOTE: Each letter can only be used in an anagram as many times as it appears in the selected word. Each anagram must be a specified mini- mum length, which flashes on the screen before each round. The num- ber of possible anagrams is shown on the right side of the screen.
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