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 .