Fisher-Price 73976 User manual

Model Number: 73976
Owner’s Manual
Model Number: 73976
Owner’s Manual
TM

Let’s Go!
Software Port
On-the-Go Games™
Software Cartridge
• Some of the tools on the tool bar are not available for use during some
activities or games. If a tool is not available for use in a particular activity or
game, you will hear a tone.
• The Home and the Volume Control (Save It) tools are always
available for use.
• Please keep this manual for future reference, as it contains important
information.
Before inserting software cartridge, turn power off. Insert the
software cartridge into the software port.Turn power back on.
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On-the-Go Fun!
Choose a game or activity from the Home Screen: Memory Mix,
Amazing Mazes, Destination: Draw! or Favorite Games.Touch the
game or activity on the screen with the stylus.
Memory Mix Amazing Mazes
Favorite Games
• Tic-Tac-Toe
• Barnyard Band
• BINGO!
• Matching Machine
Destination: Draw!
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Memory Mix
Object of the Game: Try to find all the matches in the least amount of time!
• Touch any square with
the stylus to reveal a picture.
• Try to find its match by touching
another square with the stylus.
- It’s a match! Both squares
turn black.
- Oops, try again.
Hint: Remember what each square
revealed so that you can find
another match!
• Try to find another matched
picture set.
• When all matches are made
and all the squares are black, the
timer clock appears with your
finished time. Play again and try
to beat your time!
• Touch the screen with the stylus
and you’re back to the Home
Screen. Choose another game
or activity.
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Amazing Mazes
Object of the Game: Find the path from start to finish!
• Touch the arrows on the
bottom of the screen with
the stylus to view each maze.
The first eight mazes are
beginner; the next eight
mazes are advanced.
• When you find a maze that
you would like to try, touch
the screen with the stylus.
• Touch the start point (it blinks)
with the stylus and begin tracing
a trail.
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• As you move the stylus through the
maze, the trail flashes. Find the finish line
(it also blinks)!
- Oops, you’ve hit a dead end! Simply
retrace your trail (the trail erases if
you go backwards) with the stylus
and try a different direction.
- Hooray! You’ve reached the finish line.
You’re back to the Home Screen.
Choose another game or activity.
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Note: The mark made on your screen from the stylus and the location of the
tip of the stylus may not align.This will be especially noticeable in the Amazing
Mazes game. If this happens, calibrate the stylus.
•TurnPixter
TM over so the bottom faces you. Locate the calibration hole.
• While inserting the stylus in the calibration hole, turn Pixter over so that you
can see the screen.
• When you see two encircled plus signs, you can remove the stylus from the
calibration hole.
• First touch the plus sign in the upper right corner with the tip of
the stylus.
• Then, touch the plus sign in the lower left corner with the tip of
the stylus.

Favorite Games
Choose a game: Tic-Tac-Toe, Barnyard Band, BINGO! or Matching
Machine.Touch the game or activity on the screen with the stylus.
Tic-Tac-Toe Barnyard Band
BINGO! Matching Machine
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Tic-Tac-Toe
Object of the Game: Be the first to get three X’s or O’s in a row!
• Choose one-player or two-player mode.
Touch the screen with the stylus.
• Touch a square with the stylus to place an
Xin a square.
-In one-player mode, Pixter plays against
you by selecting a square and placing
an O. It’s your turn again.
-In two-player mode, the other player
selects and touches a square with the
stylus to place an O. It’s your turn again.
• When there’s three in a row – there’s
a winner!
• What if there isn’t a winner? Play again
and again until there’s a winner.
• Touch the screen with the stylus and
you’re back to the Home Screen. Choose
another game or activity.
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Barnyard Band
Object of the Game: Fill the barnyard with animals and compose a song!
• Touch the blinking musical note on
the screen with the stylus to begin.
• Touch the arrows on the bottom of
the screen with the stylus to see all
the barn animals.
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• Choose an animal.Touch the screen
with the stylus.
• Listen to the first part of the song, along
with the sound that animal makes.
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• Continue to choose three more animals for
the barnyard band and complete the tune.
• Touch the blinking musical note to hear
your composed song over and over again!
• If you’d like to go to another activity, touch Home on the tool bar to
return to the Home Screen. Choose another game or activity.
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Object of the game: Check five spaces in a row!
BINGO!
• Choose 1-player or 2-player mode.
Touch the screen with the stylus.
• Watch the pop-up window call a space.
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• Does it match? Touch the matching space on the screen with the stylus.
-In 1-player mode, continue until you check five spaces in a row –
horizontally, vertically or diagonally. BINGO!
-In 2-player mode, once the space is called, player 1’s card appears.
Player 1 needs to check for a match. If there’s a match, touch the matching
space on the screen with the stylus. Player 2’s card then appears for play.
The first player to check five spaces in a row – horizontally, vertically or
diagonally, wins! BINGO!
• After each game, you’re back to the Home Screen . Choose another game
or activity.
Player 1 Player 2
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Matc ing Mac ine
Object of the Game: Make a match or hit the jackpot to win the most tokens!
• Touch the handle on the
machine with the stylus to see
the pictures in the windows spin.
• When the pictures stop spin-
ning, look to see if any two
match.Touch the boxes below
each matching picture with
the stylus.You win tokens!
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• Touch the handle on the machine with the stylus again to continue.
• When the pictures stop spinning, look to see if all three pictures match.
You’ve hit the JACKPOT! You win tokens.
• Touch the handle on the machine with the stylus again to continue play.
You can continue as long as you have tokens!
• If you’d like to go to another activity, touch Home on the tool bar
with the stylus to return to the Home Screen. Choose another game
or activity.
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Jackpot!
Jackpot!

Destination: Draw!
• Touch the arrows on the
bottom of the screen with
the stylus to view each
destination.
• When you find a place to draw,
touch the screen with the stylus.
• Use any of the tools:
Pencil , Straight
Line , Shape Maker ,
Stamp It! or Special
Effects Selector to make
your own mark!
Touch Home on the tool bar with the stylus to return to the
Home Screen at any time or Save It (and Adjust the Volume) to
save/retrieve a drawing or adjust the volume.
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Touch for freestyle drawing or writing.
Create your own drawing or
write a message with the stylus.
Destination: Draw! Using T e Tool Bar
Pencil
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Straight Line
Touch to make a straight line.
Now, choose the line
thickness for your pencil. Touch the screen with the stylus.
Now, drag the stylus on the screen
and stop. Look – a straight line!
Hint: Make your own shapes or create
your own connect-the-dots.
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Destination: Draw! Using T e Tool Bar

Shape Maker
Touch to make shapes.
Now, choose the shape – triangle,
circle, square/rectangle or make
your own shape!
Touch the screen and drag
the stylus to make small or
large shapes.
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Destination: Draw! Using T e Tool Bar
Hint: To make a triangle, touch the screen and drag the stylus to make the
base of the triangle.Then, touch the base line with the stylus and drag it to
complete the triangle.