Fisher-Price PIXTER B8287 User manual

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Model Number: B8287
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Model Number: B8287
Owner’s ManualOwner’s Manual

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Let’s Go!
• Some of the tools on the tool menu are not
available for use in some activities or games.
The Home and the Save It! tools are only available
for use. If a tool is not available for use, you will hear a tone.
• Please keep this manual for future reference, as it contains important
information.
IMPORTANT! If the tip of the stylus and the image on screen do not align,
it’s time to calibrate them! Please refer to page 31, Calibrating the Stylus.
Before inserting a software cartridge, turn power off! Insert the
software cartridge into the software port.Turn power back on.
Software Port
Software Cartridge

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Crazy Word Factory
Choose an activity or game from the Home Screen: Silly Sentence Maker,
Picture It! Poetry, Hidden Word Challenge,Word Surprise! or Crazy
Combos! Touch the activity or game on the screen with the stylus.
Silly Sentence
Maker
Picture It!
Poetry
Hidden Word
Challenge
Word Surprise! Crazy Combos!

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Silly Sentence Maker
• Pick a setting.
• Touch the arrows on the bottom
of the screen to scroll through
different settings.
• When you find one that you like,
touch the screen with the stylus.

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• Now, fill in the missing words in
the sentences.
• Touch a word "box" on the screen
with the stylus.
• Look at the different words on the
screen.Touch your choice on the
screen with the stylus.

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• Touch another word "box" on the screen
with the stylus.
• Choose a word.Touch your choice on
the screen with the stylus.
• Repeat this procedure to fill all of the
word "boxes".

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• You’re back to your setting.
• Touch the play button on the
screen with the stylus to listen to
your silly sentences.
• Watch your silly sentences come to life!

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• You can change the sentences if you’d like.
Touch the word "box" on the screen with
the stylus.
• Choose a different word. Touch your chioice
on the screen with the stylus.

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• If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like
to send your silly sentences to another
Pixter® 2.0, touch the Save It or Send It
tool on the tool menu with the stylus.
Hint: If you’d like to save your silly sentences,
touch Save It on the tool menu with the
stylus. If you’d like to go to another activity,
touch Home on the tool menu with
the stylus.
• Touch the play button on the
screen with the stylus to listen to
your new sentences!

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Picture It! Poetry
• Choose a poem to finish.Touch the arrows
on the bottom of the screen with the
stylus to scroll through choices.
• When you find one that you like, touch
the screen with the stylus.

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• Choose a picture.Touch your choice
on the screen with the stylus.
• Touch a picture, word or phrase box
on the screen with the stylus.

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• Choose a phrase. Touch your choice on
the screen with the stylus.
• Now, touch another picture, word or
phrase box on the screen with the stylus.

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• Touch the large arrow on the screen
with the stylus to go to the next sentence.
• Repeat this procedure to fill all the boxes
with a picture, word or phrase.
• When you’re finished with your poem,
touch the play button on the screen
with the stylus to listen to your poem.

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• You can change the poem if you’d like.
Touch a picture, word or phrase box on
the screen with the stylus.
• Choose a different picture, word or
phrase. Touch your chioice on the
screen with the stylus.

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• Touch the play button on the
screen with the stylus to listen to
your new poem.
• If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like
to send your poem to another Pixter® 2.0,
touch the Save It or Send It tool on the
tool menu with the stylus.
Hint: If you’d like to save your poem, touch Save
It on the tool menu with the stylus. If you’d
like to go to another activity, touch Home
on the tool menu with the stylus.

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Hidden Word Challenge
• Play for time or play for fun!
Timed Play Play for Fun

• Keep track of your time in the lower
left corner.
• Touch the help button on the screen
with the stylus for the list of words you are
looking for.
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• Look at the screen. Look for words that are:
- Horizontal
- Vertical
Timed Play
• Touch each letter of a word on the screen
with the stylus.
Timer Help

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•Good job! You found a word!
• Look for another word.
Hint: Remember, you’re being timed!
• Would you like to see a list of the words
your are looking for? Touch the help
button on the screen with the stylus.

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• These are the words you need to find!
• Touch the screen with the stylus to go
back to the activity screen.
• If you touch a letter on the screen that
is not part of a hidden word, it will not
highlight. Try again!