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How To Play; Power Off - Excalibur 477ET User Manual

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How to Play

After inserting batteries
and pressing
button,
you can press the
button
RESET
to turn on the unit. You will
ON
see the game level 'L1'
flashing on the screen. There
are two levels to be selected
and you can't take back your
previous move in the level
L2. You can select L1 or L2
to play by pressing the
or
button
/
with the stylus and press
SELECT
LEFT
RIGHT
button to confirm
to play. In your backgammon
/
ON
START
game, you play against the
computer and the computer
always plays first. You must
roll dice for yourself and for
the computer by pressing the
button. The black head
represents the computer's
DICE
side and the white head rep-
resents your side.
When it is your turn to
move your checker, simply
press
to roll the dice for
yourself. The two dice will
DICE
flash their numbers. Then
move your checker on your
two dice.
There are two methods
to select a checker.
One method is:
Press the point which you
have checker on it. The small
hand icon is on the point
from which you want to
move a checker. Then press
the point you want to move
the checker to.
The other method is:
You may press the
button, then you will see the
SELECT
small hand icon appear on the
first point which you have
checker on it (the top right
position). Now you can press
button again to move
the small hand icon to the
SELECT
next point which you have
checker on it. You press
button once the small
hand icon will move to next
SELECT
point until to the last point
(the bottom right position). If
you press again the points
that there is the small hand
icon appear, the small hand
will disappear. After you fin-
ish your turn, press
DICE
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roll the dice for the computer
again.
After you selecting the
checker you want to move,
you can move the checker
with two methods.
One method is:
Press the point where you
want to move to upon the
dice you rolled.
The other method is:
Press the
button to move the checker
upon the dice you rolled. If
you can't move the checker
upon the dice you rolled, it
will turn to the computer
automatically.
If you move over 5 check-
ers in a point, the bottom
checker of the point will flash
to show. You must move all
your checkers to your inner
home table, and bear off
them quickly to win the com-
puter.
You can begin to bear off
to
the checkers from the board
when all your 15 checkers
have been moved into your
inner home table.
There are two methods to
bear off your checkers.
One method is:
Press the
button to move the checker
upon the dice you rolled.
The other is:
Press the
off the checkers.
or
The player that finished
LEFT
RIGHT
bearing off all 15 checkers
first wins the game. Then the
head and 'WIN' icon will
flash on the screen with a
winning melody. You can
press the
start a new game.

Power Off

If no button is pressed for
about 3 minutes, the unit will
power
You can press the
OFF
to turn it on and continue
your last game.
9
or
LEFT
RIGHT
to bear
REMOVE
button to
START
automatically.
button
ON

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