Franklin BOOKMAn WGM-2037 User manual

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K 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

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Arrow Keys
Move in indicated direction.
Star Key Combinations*
✩
+
CARD
Sends a word between
books.
✩
+
DN
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.”

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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.

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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
MENU
.
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

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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
MENU
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
MENU
.
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.

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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.

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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
or
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
or
SPACE

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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
or
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.