Franklin SPELLMASTER SMQ-100 User manual

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User’s Manual
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Electronic Publishers
SMQ-100
Pocket
SPELLMASTER
TM

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Key Guide
Builds words from letters.
Clears to “Ready for word”.
Shows Confusables™.
Makes an entry.
Shows the games.
Shows help messages.
Turns the product on or off.
Shows the game score.
Erases typed characters.
Types an apostrophe or scrolls.
Types a full stop or scrolls.
Types a space.
Finds a letter or reveals game
answer(s).
Finds prefixes and suffixes.
BUILD
CLEAR
CONF
ENTER
GAMES
HELP
ON/OFF
SCORE
?
✽

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The first time you use this product, follow
these steps.
1. Press ON/OFF.
A brief demonstration appears.
2. Press CLEAR to stop the demo.
“Ready for word” appears.
3. Press or repeatedly to adjust
the screen contrast.
You can adjust the contrast only at
“Ready for word”.
Getting Started
✓Disabling the Demonstration
You probably do not want to view the
demonstration every time you turn on
this product.To disable the demonstra-
tion, type “✽✽d” and then press ENTER.
To enable it, do the same.
✓Help is at Hand
At almost any screen, you can view an
appropriate help message by pressing
HELP.To exit help, press ENTER.

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It’s easy to correct or check your spellings.
Note: When you spell a word correctly, an
asterisk appears beside it.
1.Type a word.
To erase a letter, press .
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more words.
4. Press CLEAR when finished.
Correcting Spellings
✓Follow the Arrows
The arrows at the right of the screen
show which arrow keys you can press to
view more words.

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Viewing Confusables™
✓Quick Confusables
If you know that a word has Confus-
ables, press CONF rather than ENTER
after typing it.
Confusables are commonly confused words.
When you see a question mark to the left of a
word, that word has Confusables.
1. Type “air”.Then press ENTER.
2. Press CONF.
3. Press to view more Confusables.
4. Press CLEAR.

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Building Words
You can build words from letters that you
type.This feature can help you solve ana-
grams and other word games.
1.Type letters.
2. Press BUILD.
3. Press to view more words.
4. Press CLEAR.
✓Typing Punctuation
At “Ready for word”, you can type an
apostrophe by pressing or a full stop
by pressing .
Note: These punctua-
tion marks cannot begin a word.

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To find letters in words, type a question mark
for each unknown letter.
1.Type a word with ?’s for unknown
letters.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more matching words.
4. Press CLEAR.
Finding Letters
✓Help for Word Games
You can use ?’s to help solve crossword
puzzles and other word games. For ex-
ample, if the second letter of a five-letter
word is H and its last letter isW, enter
“?h??w” and then scroll down to view
possible answers.

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To find prefixes and suffixes, type an asterisk
before or after the root of a word. Each aster-
isk stands for any series of letters.
1.Type a word root beginning or
ending with an ✻.
2. Press ENTER.
3. Press to view more matching words.
4. Press CLEAR.
Finding Prefixes and Suffixes
✓Letter FindingTips
You can type both ?’s and ✽’s in an en-
try, but there is no reason to type them
consecutively.If you type ✽’s
between letters, “Illegal wildcard”
appears.

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Before you can play a game, you must select
it and various skill levels such as word size
and number of tries. Skill levels determine
the difficulty of the game.
1. Press GAMES.
2. Press or until the game
you want is in view.
3. Press ENTER to select it.
4. Press or until the skill level
you want is in view.
5. Press ENTER to select it.
6. Repeat Steps 4 and 5, if needed,
to select other skill levels.
7. Press ENTER to start playing.
Selecting Games
✓User Anagrams and Hangman
Before playing User Anagrams or User
Hangman, you must enter a word to
play.Then you can test yourself or a
friend with that word.

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Anagrams
In Anagrams, you try to guess all the ana-
grams of a word.An anagram is a word
formed from some or all of the letters of an-
other word.
1.Select Anagrams.
2. Select skill levels.
word anagrams left
3.Type an anagram.
4. Press ENTER.
If the anagram is correct, “OK” appears.
5. Enter more anagrams.
6. Press to review used anagrams.
7. Press ? and then repeatedly
to view all the anagrams.
8. Press ENTER to get a new round.