Franklin Puzzle Master CWM-206 User manual

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User’s Guide
Puzzle
Master
CWM-206

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Introduction
Now there’s a fun way to make crossword
puzzles less puzzling. With your new
Puzzle Master you can . . .
• find possible crossword answers when
you know only a few letters
• find more possible answers by
changing letters
• find phrases by typing a key word
• find possible answers by topics (such
as
Animals and Theatre )
• solve Anagrams
• play Crossword Quiz and Anagrams to
practice your puzzle solving skills.
Puzzle Master contains over 130,000
words from Chambers®. By combining
your knowledge with the available cross-
word solutions, you can solve most cross-
word puzzle words. This User’s Guide
shows you how. You can follow its num-
bered steps by using the examples shown
or by using words that interest you.

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Function Keys
Goes back one step or erases a letter.
Clears to the Ready screen.
Enters a word or scrolls text to the left.
Shows help information.
Finds more word choices.
Turns
Puzzle Master on or off.
Searchesforphrasesincludingkeyword.
Shows the Topics Menu.
Shows the Games Menu.
Types a
? to stand for a letter.
Types a dash.
Direction Keys
Moves left.
Types a space or moves right.
Scrolls up a list or darkens the screen
contrast at the
Ready screen.
Scrolls down a list or lightens the screen
contrast at the
Ready screen.
Key Guide
BACK
MORE
HELP
ENTER
CLEAR
ON/OFF
PHRASE
TOPICS
GAMES
?
➤
➤
➤
➤

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Getting Started
1. Turn your Puzzle Master over.
2. Remove its battery cover.
3. Insert four LR03 batteries (AAA batter-
ies) into the battery compartment.
Refer to the diagram in the battery compart-
ment to learn how to insert the batteries.
4. Replace the battery cover.
Your
Puzzle Master will turn on once the bat-
teries are inserted.Abrief demonstration be-
gins once it is turned on.
5. To stop the demonstration press CLEAR.
6. To disable the demonstration, type
--D
and then press ENTER.
Once the demo is disabled, the demonstration
willnotbegineachtimeyouturntheproducton.
To re-enable the demonstration, type --D .
7. To make the screen lighter or darker,
press
➤
or
➤
several times.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
To extend the battery life, Puzzle Master
will automatically shut off within two min-
utes if you forget to turn it off. When you
turn it on again, you return to the last
screen that you viewed.

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Finding Words
Puzzle Master helps you find answers to
crossword puzzles by finding missing letters.
Type a
? in place of each letter that you do not
know and let
Puzzle Master find all possible
matches from its word list.
1. Type a word with ?’s (e.g., ?ALL??Y ).
To erase a letter, press BACK.
To type a space, press . You can type
capitals only.
2. Press ENTER to search.
A Crossword list appears.
3. Press to scroll down the list of
matching words.
A ? can stand for a hyphen as well as a
letter, as shown here.
4. Press CLEAR when finished.
➤
➤

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Finding Words
✓Viewing Help Information
You can view help information at most
screens by pressing HELP. Help infor-
mation automatically scrolls right on the
screen and returns to the place where
HELP was pressed.
✓Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows show which arrow
keys you can press to view more.
✓What is the Flashing ?
Some words belong to one or more top-
ics. When you see the flashing T at the
right of the screen, press TOPICS to
view the topics with which that word is
associated. To learn more about topics,
read “Finding Words by Topic” on page 8.

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Finding More Words
If the word you are looking for is not on a
Crosswordlist,pressMORE tofindmorepos-
sibilities.WhenyoupressMORE,
PuzzleMas-
ter
substitutes a letter for one that you have
typed. Try this example.
1. Type a word (e.g.,
DOT ) and press ENTER.
Correct word appears. This means the
word was spelled correctly.
2. Press MORE.
Note: You can also press MORE from the
Ready screen.
The lowercase letter is the new letter.
3. Press
➤
and
➤
to scroll up and down
the
matches.
These are all variations, with one letter
changed, of the original word
DOT .
4. Press CLEAR when finished.

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Finding Phrases
Puzzle Master can also find phrases that in-
clude a key word.
1. Type a word in a phrase (e.g.,
CAT ).
2. Press ENTER to check for correct
spelling.
3. Press PHRASE.
NOTE: You can also press PHRASE
from the
Ready screen.
While
Puzzle Master searches for
phrases, a clock may appear.Alist of
matching phrases appears.
4. Press
➤
and
➤
to scroll up and down
the phrases.
5. Press CLEAR when finished.
✓Correcting Misspellings
Puzzle Master can also be used as a spell
checker. However, it can correct only those
words that are in this crossword list from
Chambers®. It may not recognize some
commonly used English words.

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Finding Words by Topic
You can even narrow your search by topic.
There are close to 200 topics from which to
choose. Topics range from
Academics to Zo-
ology
.
1. Press TOPICS.
The Topics menu appears.
2. Type the letters of a topic you want.
Puzzle Master finds the topics in alphabeti-
cal order. Note: There are no topics starting
with the letters K, Q, X, or Y.
3. Press
➤
and
➤
to scroll up and down
the
topics.
4. Press ENTER to select the topic.
The Ready screen appears with a flash-
ing T.
5. At the Ready screen type your cross-
word guess with ?’s.
6. Press ENTER.
7. Press
➤
and
➤
to scroll up and down
the Crossword list.
8. Press CLEAR when finished.

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Finding Words by Topic
✓Another way to find Words by Topic
To find a list of the words associated with a
specific topic, first select a topic (e.g.,
Games & sports ). Press ENTER. Next en-
ter ?’s to determine how long the words in
the list will be (e.g.,
???? ). Press ENTER
again. While Puzzle Master searches for
words, a clock may appear.Alist of match-
ing words appears.
Now you can view every word that is four
letters long and listed under
Games &
sports .

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Setting the Skill Level for Games
Puzzle Master includes three games that
enhanceyourcrosswordpuzzlesolvingskills
-- Anagram Solver, Crossword Quiz, and
Anagrams. To set the skill level for the
games, follow these instructions.
1. Press GAMES.
The first time you enter the Games Menu,
the message
Select a game appears.
The message Set Skill Level also ap-
pears.
Any other time you access the Games
Menu, the game you last played appears.
Use
➤
to view the Set Skill Level option.
2. When the Set Skill Level option ap-
pears, press ENTER.
The message Pick Skill Level appears.

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Setting the Skill Level for Games
The option, Beginner , also appears.
3.Use
➤
or
➤
to view the skill level you
want -
Beginner , Intermediate , or Ad-
vanced
.
4. Press ENTER to select the skill level.
After the skill level is set, the message
Select a game appears.
The first game option, Anagram Solver ,
also appears.
✓Understanding the Skill Level
The skill level changes the number of
correct guesses required inAnagrams. It
changes the number of letters hidden in
Crossword Quiz.Anagram Solver is
unaffected by the skill level.

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Anagram Solver builds words of a minimum
size from letters that you enter.
1. Press GAMES, if needed.
2. Use
➤
or
➤
until you see Anagram
Solver .
3. Press ENTER to select it.
4. Type up to 14 letters.
You can type a letter more than once.
5. Press ENTER.
If the letters you type do not make a
word, you see No words .
6. Use
➤
and
➤
to view the words built
from your letters.
7. Press ENTER to play a new round.
Playing Anagram Solver

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Playing Crossword Quiz
To play Crossword Quiz, you must guess a
mystery word. Its topic appears briefly before
each round.
1. Press GAMES.
2. Press
➤
or
➤
until you see Cross-
word Quiz
.
3. Press ENTER to select it.
The topic of the mystery word briefly ap-
pears.
4. Type letters in place of the ?’s.
If you type a letter that is not in the
word, you see
No, try again . If you
guessed a letter correctly, continue to
type letters until
You win! appears. Your
score appears after each round and
clears to zero when you exit the game.
5. Press ? to reveal one letter and for-
feit the game.
6. Press ENTER to play another round.
7. Press CLEAR when finished.

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Playing Anagrams
Anagrams challenges you to find the ana-
grams of words. An anagram is a word
formed from some or all the letters of an-
other word.
1. Press GAMES, if needed.
2. Press
➤
or
➤
to see Anagrams and then
press ENTER to select it.
Note: The number of possible words appears
at the right of the screen.
3. Type an anagram and then press ENTER.
If the anagram is correct, OK appears.
4. Enter more anagrams.
5. Press ? to rearrange the letters.
6. Use
➤
and
➤
to see the anagrams that
you have already entered, if any.
7. To end the round and see all the ana-
grams, press ? and then use
➤
.
8. Press ENTER to play a new round.

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About the Batteries
This product uses four LR03 batteries (AAA
batteries). The battery should be changed
when the screen contrast is too light even
after adjustment.
Important Notes
1. Different types of batteries or new and
used batteries are not to be mixed.
2. Only batteries of the same or equivalent
type as recommended are to be used.
3. Batteries are to be inserted with the
correct polarity.
4. Exhausted batteries should be re-
moved.
5. The supply terminals are not to be
short-circuited.
This unit may change operating modes due to
Electro-static Discharge. Normal operation of this
unit can be re-established by pressing the reset key,
ON/OFF, or by removing/replacing batteries.

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Model CWM-206 Puzzle Master
• Size: 13.5 x 8.9 x 2.3 cm • LCD: 1 x 16 characters
• Battery: four AAA batteries • Weight: 4.0 ounces
Product Care and Customer Service
To clean this product , spray a mild glass cleaner onto a cloth
and wipe its surface. Don’t spray liquids directly onto the unit.
Don’tuse or storeyour unit inextreme or prolongedheat, cold,
humidity, or other adverse conditions.
If you have a problem with your unit, refer to the warranty. If
you purchased your unit outside the United Kingdom, contact
the place of purchase to obtain warranty or repair information.
Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and ISBN
© 2002 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. Burlington, NJ
08016-4907U.S.A.Allrights reserved. Complieswiththelimits
for a Class B computing device pursuant to Part 15 of FCC
Rules. All rights reserved.
FCC Tested to Comply With FCC Standards
FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE
Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This
device may not cause harmful interference; and (2) this de-
vice must accept any interference received, including interfer-
ence that may cause undesired operation.
© 1994 Chambers Harrap Ltd. All rights reserved.
U.S. PATENTS: 4,490,811; 4,830,618; 4,891,775;
5,249,965; 5,218,536; 5,113,340; 5,203,705; 5,396,606;
5,435,564.
EURO. PAT. 0 136 379. Patents Pending.
ISBN 1-56712-566-2
CE √N681
Product Care

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