Franklin Bible Challenge XBT-2058 User manual

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Electronic Publishers
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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD
B OO K MAN
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USER’S GUIDE
XBT-2058
Bible Challenge

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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOK-
MAN®! With this Bible Challenge™
book card, you can test your trivia
knowledge by playing 100 different
games at three levels of difficulty.
Bible Challenge is a game-show-
style trivia game with hosts John
Tisdale and Debbie. In each round,
you are challenged to test your
knowledge of the Bible in three out
of four categories. In each cat-
egory, you try to match nine pairs
of clues before time runs out. Each
category is drawn from one to
seven fields of knowledge such as
Books, Place, or Story.
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 Bible Challenge”
Getting Started.............................................................. 3
Playing Bible Challenge ................................................. 7
Appendices ................................................................... 15

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Color Keys
NEW
(red) Clears the current game
and goes to the next game.
SCORE
(green) Shows your score.
FACT
(yellow) Shows a Bible Fact,
when available.
ANSWER
(blue) Shows the answers for a
category after a round is
completed.
Other Keys
BACK
Backs up to the previous
screen or erases numbers.
CARD
Exits the book you are reading.
CLEAR
Clears to the Play game
number:
screen.
ENTER
Selects a menu item or
matches a pair of game clues.
HELP
Shows help messages.
MENU
Shows the main menus.
ON/OFF
Turns your BOOKMAN on or off.
SPACE
Matches a pair of game clues.
? ✽
Shows the category and field
of knowledge for a round and
shows a full menu title.
Key Guide
Number Keys
Q
–
P
Type a game number to be
played.
Direction Keys
Changes the top clues,
moves in indicated direction
or changes the 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.
➤ 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.”
* Hold
CAP
while pressing the other key.

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Getting Started
In this section you will learn how to
installa book card andhowtoselect
a book once a book card has been
installed.
Youwillbeshownhowtoviewabrief
demonstration about Bible Chal-
lenge . Also, you will be able to set
theshutoff timeandscreencontrast
from the Setup menu.
Plus, you will discover how to read
the topics in the Instructions menu,
such as Basic Game Play and Scor-
ing . The Instructions menu will help
you learn how to play Bible Chal-
lenge as well as how to develop
strategieswhich you can useinboth
the Challenge and Championship
rounds.
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

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Once you have installed a book card in
your BOOKMAN, you can select which
book you want to use. Note: If you
changebooksin themiddleof a category
youwilllose yourscoreforthat category.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.
2. Press
CARD
.
These are sample books.
3. Press or to highlight the
book you want to use.
4. Press
ENTER
to select it.
Warning: Never install or remove a
book card while your BOOKMAN is
turnedon. Ifyoudo, informationthatyou
entered in its built-in book and in an in-
stalled book will be erased.
1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.
2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.
3. Align the tabs on the book
card with the notches in the
slot.
4. Press the book card down
until it snaps into place.
Installing a Book Card
➤ Removing a Book Card
Warning: When you remove a book
card to install another, information that
you have entered in the removed
book card will be erased.
Selecting a Book
➤ About Screen Illustrations
Some screen illustrations in this
User’s Guide may differ from what
you see on the actual screen. This
does not mean that your BOOK-
MAN is malfunctioning.

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Using the Color Keys
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The red, green, yellow and blue keys on
your BOOKMAN change functions ac-
cording to which book is selected.
When the built-in book is selected, the
color keys function as labelled on the
BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book
card is selected, the color keys function
as labelled on that card.
Viewing a Demonstration
Before you begin playing the games,
you may want to view a brief demon-
stration describing how to use this
book. Simply install the book card and
then follow these steps.
1. Press
MENU
, if necessary.
2. Use or to highlight the
Setup menu.
3. Press to highlight View
Demo.
4. Press
ENTER
to start the
demonstration.
5. To stop the demonstration at
any time, press
CLEAR
.
➤ Help is Always at Hand
You can view a help message at
virtually any screen by pressing
HELP
. Use the Direction keys to
read it. To exit help, press
BACK
.
To see a tutorial and key guide
describing the functions of this book,
select
Tutorial from the Setup menu.
➤ Resuming Where You Left Off
You can turn off your BOOKMAN at
any screen. When you turn your
BOOKMAN on again. The screen
that you last viewed appears.

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➤ Follow the Arrows
The flashing arrows on the right of
the screen show which arrow keys
you can press to move around
menus or view more text.
Reading the Instructions
AnInstructionsmenu hasbeenincluded
to help you better understand the rules.
Also included in this menu are tips that
will help you play better.
1. Press
MENU
, if necessary.
2. Use or to highlight the
Instructions menu.
3. Press to highlight the
desired topic (e.g., Basic
Game Play).
4. Press
ENTER
to select the topic.
5. Use or to read the text.
Or press
SPACE
or
DN
to page down.
6. Press
BACK
when finished.
Using the Setup menu, you can adjust
the shutoff time and screen contrast.
Set Shutoff sets how long the
BOOKMAN unit stays on if you forget
to turn it off.
Set Contrast makes the
screen lighter or darker.
1. Press
MENU
.
2. Use or to highlight the
Setup menu.
3. Highlight Set Shutoff or Set
Contrast.
4. Press
ENTER
.
5. Use the arrow keys to high-
light a setting.
If you select
Set Contrast, press
or repeatedly to make the
screen lighter or darker.
To exit without changing settings,
press
BACK
.
6. Press
ENTER
to select the
setting.
Changing the Settings

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Playing Bible Challenge
Each game consists of two rounds,
theChallenge RoundandtheCham-
pionship Round.
In the Challenge Round you will play
three out of the four categories, try-
ing to match nine pairs of clues be-
fore time runs out. Every time you
correctly match a pair of clues you
win points, but every time you incor-
rectlymatcha pair of clues, you lose
points.
If you win 2,500 points or more, you
will go on to the Championship
Round. In the Championship Round
you will play only one category,
whereyoumustmatchthe eightcor-
rect pairs of clues before time runs
out, while avoiding the fake clues
(also called bombs).
If you can successfully match the
clues, you will win big points and fun
prizes.
Selecting a Skill Level ................................................... 8
Selecting a Game .......................................................... 8
Selecting a Category ..................................................... 9
Playing a Category ........................................................ 10
Bible Challenge Tips...................................................... 11
Between Categories ...................................................... 12
The Championship Round .............................................. 12
Winning a Prize ............................................................. 14

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Beforeyoubeginplaying BibleChallenge ,
you must choose one of three levels of
difficulty.
Theskilllevelchangestheamountoftime
you have to match clues, and it shuffles
the categories into different game num-
bers. So for example, Game
1 will have
different categories at the Challenging
level than at the Leisurely level.
Later,youcanchangetheskilllevelat any
time by pressing
MENU
and highlighting
the Level menu.
1. Press or to highlight the
desired level, if necessary.
• Leisurely is the easiest level. You
have more time to match the clues.
You may want to begin at this level.
•
Challenging is the default level. It is
intended for intermediate players.
•
Wired is the most challenging level.
You have less time to match the
clues. This is for expert players.
2. Press
ENTER
to select the level.
Selecting a Skill Level Selecting a Game
With Bible Challenge you can test your
Bibleknowledge byplaying 100different
games.
You may press
CLEAR
at any time to exit
agameandreturntothe
Playgamenum-
ber
screen. Note:Pressing
CLEAR
will not
change the game number.
1. Use or to select a game
number.
You can also press
NEW
(the red
key) to increase the game number
by one, or you can type in the
desired game number, from 1 to
100, using the number keys.
To erase a game numbered, press
BACK
.
2. Press
ENTER
to play the game.
3. If you want, you can end
your game at any time by
pressing
NEW
(the red key).
Press
Y
to go to the next game.
Press
BACK
to keep playing.