Franklin BOOKMAn WGM-2037 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD

MAN

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USER’S GUIDE

WGM-2037

Word Games

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Contents

difficulty level from beginner to wizard.

Also, choose which word list you want

to use in the games to keep them chal-

lenging. Use your BOOKMAN to read

this card. See “Installing Book Cards”

to learn how.

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

With this

Word Games

book card you

can play eleven fun games to enjoy as

well as help build your vocabulary.

There are over 80,000 words in Word

Game’s word list. You can adjust the

Installing Book Cards and Selecting Books.................... 4

Using the Color Keys and Changing Settings ................. 5

Viewing a Demonstration and Choosing Game Settings . 6

Anagrams ..................................................................... 7

Jumble .......................................................................... 7

Hangman ....................................................................... 8

Word Blaster ................................................................. 8

Word Train .................................................................... 9

Word Deduction ............................................................ 9

Word Poker ................................................................... 10

Memory Challenge and Word Auction ............................ 12

Word Capture ................................................................ 13

Lotto ............................................................................. 14

Sending Game Words .................................................... 14

Warranty ....................................................................... 17

Index ............................................................................. 20

Arrow Keys

Move in indicated direction.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

CARD

Sends a word between

books.

✩

Starts a new round.

Function Keys

CLEAR Clears to the games list.

MENU Shows the main menus.

NEW

(red) Starts a new round.

SCORE

(green) Shows the current score for

most games.

HINT

(yellow) Gives a hint or shuffles

letters in most games.

ANSWER

(blue) Ends the game and shows

the answer.

CARD Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up and erases letters.

CAP

Shifts keys to type punctuation.

ENTER

Selects a game or word.

SPACE

Types a space or starts a new

round.

HELP

Shows a help message.

?✱

Shows the answers.

Key Guide

Hold

✩

while pressing the other key

➤ Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow,

and blue) perform the functions listed

above only for the book described in

this User’s Guide.

Other BOOKMAN books have their

own color key functions, which are

labelled on their book cards or on the

keyboard. For more information, read

“Using the Color Keys.”

Installing Book Cards

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card when BOOKMAN is on. If

you do, information that you entered

in its built-in book and in an installed

card will be erased.

1. Turn BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs on the book

card with the notches in the

slot.

4. Press the book card until it

snaps into place.

Selecting Books

Once you have installed a book card

in your BOOKMAN, you must select

which book you want to use.

1. Turn BOOKMAN on.

2. Press CARD .

These are sample books.

3. Press or to highlight the

book you want to use.

4. Press

ENTER

to select it.

➤Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off BOOKMAN at

any screen. When you turn

BOOKMAN on again, the screen

that you last viewed appears.

➤ Removing Book Cards

Warning: When you remove a

book card to install another,

information that you entered in the

removed book card will be erased.

Using the Color Keys

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on

your BOOKMAN change functions ac-

cording to which book is selected.

When the built-in book is selected, the

color keys function as labelled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book

card is selected, the color keys func-

tion as labelled on that card.

Remember, the color keys for BOOK-

MAN books in book cards function as

labelled on their book cards, not as on

the keyboard.

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You can adjust the shutoff time and

the screen contrast. The shutoff time

is how long BOOKMAN stays on if you

forget to turn it off.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Press

3. Press the arrow keys to

highlight the Setup menu.

4. Highlight Set Shutoff or

Set Contrast.

5. Press

ENTER

to select it.

6. Highlight a setting.

Or press or if you selected

Contrast Adjust

. To exit without

changing settings, press

BACK

7. Press

ENTER

to select it.

Changing Settings

Before you start using this book, you can

view a demonstration of what it can do.

Once you have installed and selected

the book card, press

and then

the arrow keys to highlight

View Demo

on the Setup menu. Then press

ENTER

to view the demonstration.

If you want to stop the demonstration,

press

CLEAR

Choosing Game SettingsViewing a Demonstration

➤ Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at

virtually any screen by pressing

HELP

. Press the arrow keys to read

it. To exit help, press

BACK

If you want to read a tutorial about

what the keys do, select

Tutorial

from the Setup menu.

➤ Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of

the screen show which arrow keys

you can press to move around the

screen.

You can customize the games to the

settings that suit you. Go back and

change them anytime you want more

or less of a challenge. Here are the

settings and how to use them:

1. Press

2. Press to highlight the skill

level with which you want to

play the games.

3. Press

ENTER

to select it.

The check marks the selected

setting.

4. Press to go to the Word

Size menu.

5. Select a word size.

•

Random

selects words of

various lengths for game words.

•

Enter Your Own

lets you type in

your own game words.

6. Press

CLEAR

when done to go

to the games list.

7. To select a game, press and

and then

ENTER

when the

name of the game you want

is showing.

Anagrams Jumble

Anagrams challenges you to find all of

the words that can occur within a given

word. Each letter can only be used as

many times as it appears in the se-

lected word. Anagrams must be a

specified minimum length, which will

flash on the screen before each game.

1. Press

ENTER

to select Anagrams.

root word anagrams remaining

2. Type an anagram and then

press

ENTER

To erase a letter, press

BACK

Use the arrow keys to view

anagrams you’ve already entered.

3. Press

HINT

to shuffle the

letters in the root word.

4. To end a round and reveal the

remaining anagrams, press

ANSWER

(the blue key).

5. Press

NEW

(the red key) or

SPACE

to play another round.

Jumble jumbles the letters of a mys-

tery word. You must unscramble the

letters to form the word(s). The diffi-

culty of the word is determined by the

skill level.

1. Select Jumble from the

games list.

mystery word number of words

that can be formed

2. Type your guess and then

press

ENTER

3. Press

HINT

to shuffle the

letters.

4. To quit and see the answer(s),

press

ANSWER

(the blue key).

5. Press

NEW

(the red key) or

SPACE

to play another round.

Hangman Word Blaster

Hangman challenges you to guess a

mystery word, indicated by ?’s, one let-

ter at a time. You have a limited num-

ber of tries; beginners have more tries

than wizards. Wrong guesses take

your man one step closer to his doom.

Try to guess the word before your man

is hung!

1. Select Hangman from the

games list.

9=number of guesses left

2. Type a letter you think is in

the mystery word.

3. Keep entering letters until

you win or run out of tries.

4. To... Press...

see a hint

HINT

end the round

ANSWER

see your score

SCORE

start a new round

NEW

SPACE

NOTE: If you ask for a hint, you

will lose the round.

Word Blaster is a speed spelling game.

Letters of a mystery word appear one

by one. You must enter the answer

before the last letter is shown as time

runs out. The harder the skill level, the

faster the letters will appear.

1. Select Word Blaster.

2. Watch as the letters begin to

form a word.

3. Press

ENTER

to stop the clock.

4. Type your guess and then

press

ENTER

To erase a letter, press

BACK

. If

your guess was right, you win! If

your guess was wrong, you can try

entering another word.

5. To... Press...

see a hint

HINT

end the round

ANSWER

see your score

SCORE

start a new round

NEW

SPACE

Word DeductionWord Train

All aboard the Word Train spelling

game! You and the train take turns typ-

ing letters to form a word. Whoever

types the last letter wins.

1. Select Word Train from the

games list.

2. Type any letter to start a

word.

Now the train adds a letter. In the

next round the train will start first.

3. Continue typing letters after

the train until a word is

formed.

NOTE: The word forming must be

one in Word Game’s word list.

4. To... Press...

get a hint

HINT

end the round

ANSWER

see your score

SCORE

start a new round

NEW

SPACE

select a new game

BACK

Here you must try and deduce what

the mystery word is by entering words

and evaluating which of the letters you

entered are in the mystery word and

where they belong. You have a limited

number of tries, but you can view your

past guesses at any time to help you

figure out the pattern.

1. Select Word Deduction.

2. Type a word in the spaces.

3. Press

ENTER

• If there is a number under

perfect

, it means that you have

that many letters correct and

they are placed in the right spot.

• If you have a number under

misplaced

, it means that you

have that many letters correct,

but they are in the wrong spot.

• If you have zeros under

perfect

and

misplaced

, the letters you

typed are not in the mystery word.

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