Excalibur electronic ET454 Games User Manual


 
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your score.
Press MENU during this Press Enter
Screen to briefly see a Score Screen.
SCORES
HIGH 0000
LAST 0000
ROUND 0000
The score for the round will always be
zero, since the round has not started, but
the high score achieved thus far, and the
score from the last time you played will
be shown. The round score will always be
updated during play, but the timer must
be on, in order to update the last and high
score.
Now press ENTER to see those hidden
grid letters and begin your round.
Connect Play Screen
HINT KEY
If you are playing with the timer off, a
HINT key will appear on the left of the
screen once play begins. Press this key to
display the first letter of the word with
the longest length. Repeatedly pressing
HINT will cause the remaining letters of
that word to be displayed. Press ENTER
to register the word. Once a word is reg-
istered and accepted as valid, it will
appear in the area above the Spelled
Word line.
If you are playing with the timer on, you
must first make words to achieve a cer-
tain score value before the HINT key
will appear. With each use of the HINT
key, your score will be reduced. If your
score drops below a certain score, the
HINT key will disappear and you will
need to make some words to get your
score back to the value that displays the
HINT key.
ENTER KEY
Press ENTER to register the word. 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 displayed.
Once a word is registered and accepted as
valid, it will appear in the area above the
Spelled Word line.
If you try to use ENTER to register a
word that has already been entered, an
“already registered” sound will be made,
and nothing else will happen. If you don’t
see that word in the entered word area,
press the PAGE key to see more entered
words.
PAGE KEY
Once you have entered enough words to
fill the entered words area, the next word
that is entered will go in the entered word
area, but that pushes one of the other
words to an alternate screen storage area.
When this occurs, the PAGE key will be
displayed on the left of the screen.
Pressing this PAGE key will display the
other words that have been entered but
that could not fit on the main play screen.
Pressing PAGE again will either go to the
next page of entered words, if there is
one, or it will return you to the play
screen.
MENU KEY
Pressing MENU during play will cause a
Score Screen to be briefly displayed.
SCORES
HIGH 0000
LAST 0000
ROUND 0000
CONNECT