Franklin BOOKMAN XST-2051 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K MAN
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Sports Trivia
Game
USER’S GUIDE
XST-2051

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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOK-
MAN®! With this Sports Trivia
Game book card, you can test
your trivia knowledge by playing
100 different games at three levels
of difficulty.
Sports Trivia is a game-show-style
trivia game with hosts Stan Tisdale
and Alexis Roberts. In each round,
you are challenged to test your
knowledge of sports trivia in three
out of four categories. In each
category, you try to match nine pairs
of clues before time runs out. Each
Getting Started.............................................................. 3
Playing Sports Trivia ..................................................... 7
Appendices ................................................................... 15
category is drawn from one of ten
fields of knowledge such as
Football, Baseball, or Olympics.
If you score enough points in the
Challenge Round, you go on to the
Championship Round, where you
can win even more points and
unusual prizes.
To learn how to install this book
card into your BOOKMAN unit,
read “Getting Started.”
To learn how to play the game,
read “Playing Sports Trivia”

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Function Keys
CLEAR
Clears all entries and scores.
MENU
Shows the main menus.
NEW
(red) Clears the current game
and goes to the next game.
SCORE
(green) Shows your current score.
FACT
(yellow) Shows a Fun Fact,
when available.
ANSWER
(blue) Shows the answers for a
category after a round is
completed.
CARD
Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF
Turns BOOKMAN on or off.
➤ Understanding the Color Keys
The color keys (red, green, yellow, and
blue) perform the functions listed
above only for the BOOKMAN book
card described in this User’s Guide.
Other books have their own color key
functions, which are labelled on their
book cards and listed in their User’s
Guides. For more information, read
“Using the Color Keys.”
Key Guide
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up to the previous
screen or erases numbers.
ENTER
Selects a menu item or matches
a game clue.
HELP
Shows help messages.
SPACE
Matches a game clue.
? ✽
Shows the category and field
of knowledge for a round.
Direction Keys
Changes the top clues,
moves in indicated direction
or selects a game number.
Changes the bottom clues or
moves in indicated direction.
UP
DN
Pages up or down.
CAP Goes to the bottom of a
page.
CAP Goes to the top of a page.
Number Keys
0 – 9 Type a game number to be
played. (Usually found on the
top row of letter keys.)

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Getting Started
Plus, you will discover how to read
the topics in the Instructions menu.
The Instructions menu will help you
learn how to play a Sports Trivia
game as well as how to develop
strategies which you can use in both
the Challenge and Championship
rounds.
After this brief “Getting Started”
section, you will be ready to play.
Fame and fortune await. Good Luck!
Installing a Book Card ................................................... 4
Selecting a Book ........................................................... 4
Using the Color Keys ..................................................... 5
Viewing a Demonstration .............................................. 5
Changing the Settings ................................................... 6
Reading the Instructions ................................................ 6
In this section you will learn how to
install a book card and how to select
a book once a book card has been
installed.
You will be shown how to view a brief
demonstration about the Sports Trivia
Game. Also, you will be able to set
the shutoff time and screen contrast
from the Setup menu.