Franklin SCRABBLE MASTER SCM-106 User manual

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SCM-106
USER’S GUIDE
SCRABBLE®MASTER
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Introduction
Congratulations! You now have a powerful and
portable way to improve your SCRABBLE® skills
and scores. With the SCRABBLE®Master, you
can:
■check if your word is a valid SCRABBLE®
word according to the
Chambers Official
SCRABBLE®Words.
■check word spellings;
■build words from your letter and blank
tiles;
■enter patterns of letters appearing on the
board and fit your tiles to those patterns;
■include double and triple letter and word
scores in your patterns;
■play four fun word games.
To learn how to use the SCRABBLE®Master,
read this manual and then keep it handy for ref-
erence.
✓Help is at Hand
At most displays, you can view an appro-
priate help message by pressing HELP. To
exit a help message, press BACK.

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BACK
Goes back or erases a typed letter.
CLEAR
Clears to the Ready screen or stops
the Quick Demo.
BUILD
Builds words from entered letters.
PTRN
Goes to the Pattern entry screen.
SKILL
Sets the skill level for the games.
ENTER
Enters a word.
GAMES
Shows the Games menu.
HELP
Shows a help message.
ON/OFF
Turns the product on or off.
?
Types a ?to stand for any letter or a
blank tile. In games, ends a round.
✽
Types an ✽ to stand for any series
of letters.
Scrolls up or enters double and tri-
ple letter/word counts.
Scrolls down.
Types an empty square or moves
right.
Moves left.
Key Guide

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Getting Started
1. Press ON/OFF.
The Quick Demo appears. You can stop the
demo at any time by pressing
CLEAR
.
2. Press or to adjust the contrast at the
Ready screen.
You can only adjust the contrast here.
3. If the screen is still blank, you may need to
change the battery.
✓Disabling the Demo
You probably do not want to view the
Quick Demo every time you start. To dis-
able the demo, type
✽✽ d at the Ready
screen, then press
ENTER
. To enable the
demo, enter
✽✽ d again.
✓Resuming Where You Left Off
To save battery life, this product will auto-
matically shut off within two minutes.
If this product is turned off for any reason,
you will return to the last screen that you
viewed. Note: This will only work if you
have turned the demonstration off.

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Correcting Misspellings
When you enter a misspelled word at the Ready
screen, a list of corrections appears. When you
enter a correctly spelled word, the message
Cor-
rect Word
appears with a list of similar words.
When you enter a word not in SCRABBLE®Mas-
ter, the message Sorry Can’t Help appears. To
correct misspellings at the Ready screen, follow
these instructions.
1. Type a word.
To erase a letter, press .
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press repeatedly to view more words.
4. Press CLEAR when done.
✓Finding More Corrections
If you do not find the word that you want
in a correction list, highlight a correction
and press ENTER twice. A list of more cor-
rections appears.
✓Checking Words for Validity
If you want to check if your word is a valid
SCRABBLE®word according to the
Chambers
Official SCRABBLE
®
Words , type your word
at the Ready screen and press ENTER.

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You can find spellings even when you don’t
know all the letters in a word. Just type a ques-
tion mark (?) for each unknown letter, or type
an asterisk (✽) for any number of letters. Here is
an example.
1. At the Ready screen, type a ?and a ✽to
take the place of one letter and a series of
letters respectively.
For example, type
Q ? A ✽ T .
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to see more words.
✓Finding Unusual Words
Use the question mark (?) and the asterisk
(✽) to find unusual words. For example,
type “ A ? ”to see two-letter words begin-
ning with A. To see words beginning and
ending with H, type H ✽ H .
Finding Spellings

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Building Words
To build words from your letter tiles, type the
tiles you have at the Ready Screen and then
press BUILD. You’ll see a list of words ranked
by their SCRABBLE®scores. Here is an example.
1. Type the tiles in your tray.
To erase a letter, press .
2. Press BUILD to build your SCRABBLE®list.
The number shows the word’s SCRABBLE®
score. If no words can be built from your
tiles, you’ll see the message
Sorry can’t
help .
3. Press to see more words and scores.
4. Press CLEAR when done.
✓Viewing More Words
Blinking arrows to the right of the screen
indicate that there are more words to see.
Just press the arrow key that is shown.

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Building Words
Building Words With Blank Tiles
To build words with blank tiles, type a question
mark (?) for each blank tile and then press
BUILD. For example:
1. Type
AD ? ES .
2. Press BUILD.
In this word, the blank tile became a Z.
3. Press to view more words.
4. Press CLEAR when done.
✓Helpful Hint
You can build words with as many blank
tiles as you like. However, you cannot
build words using an asterisk (✽).
If you type an asterisk and then press
BUILD, SCRABBLE®Master assumes that
you’ve entered a pattern. See “Filling Pat-
terns.”

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Filling Patterns
Using PTRN you can type patterns of letters ap-
pearing on the SCRABBLE®board and then fit
your tiles around them.
1. Press PTRN to see the Pattern entry screen.
You can enter a combination of 15 letters
and the following designated squares.
One Empty square
A series of empty squares
Double letter square
Triple letter square
Double word square
Triple word square
Press or ?to enter an empty square.
Press then to cycle through the dou-
ble and triple letter and word choices.
2. Type your pattern.