Key Guide Builds words from letters. BUILD Clears to “Ready for word”. CLEAR ™ Shows Confusables CONF Makes an entry. ENTER Shows the games. GAMES Shows help messages. HELP Turns the product on or off. ON/OFF Shows the game score. SCORE Erases typed characters.
Getting Started 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 the screen contrast. You can adjust the contrast only at “Ready for word”.
Correcting Spellings 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.
Viewing Confusables 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. Quick Confusables If you know that a word has Confus- ables, press CONF rather than ENTER...
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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 by pressing...
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Finding Letters 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. Help for Word Games You can use ?’s to help solve crossword puzzles and other word games.
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Finding Prefixes and Suffixes 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.
Selecting Games 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 you want is in view. 3.
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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 3. Type an anagram. 4.
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Flashcards and Word Blaster In Flashcards, a word flashes on screen that you try to spell. 1. Select Flashcards. 2. Select skill levels. A word appears. 3. Type the word and then press ENTER. Or press ? to reveal the word. 4.
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Hangman Hangman challenges you to guess the letters of a mystery word in a certain number of tries. 1. Select Hangman. 2. Select skill levels. mystery word tries remaining 3. Type letters. 4. Press ENTER to reveal a letter. 5. Press ? to reveal the word. 6.
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Jumble In Jumble, one or more jumbled words ap- pear and you must unjumble the letters to spell the word or words. 1. Select Jumble. 2. Select skill levels. jumbled word(s) number of words 3. Type a word. 4. Press ENTER. 5.
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Viewing Scores When playing a game, you can view how many rounds have been played and how many that you have won. Note: The score is reset to zero whenever you change games, press CLEAR, or turn the product off. 1.
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Warranty (U.K. only) This product, excluding batteries, is guaranteed by Franklin for a period of one year from the date of purchase. It will be repaired or replaced (at Franklin’s option) free of charge for any defect due to faulty workmanship or materials.
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