Franklin crosswords CW-40 User Manual

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  • Page 1 CW-40 crosswords puzzle solver User’s Manual...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    WELCOME TO THE FRANKLIN WORLD OF ELECTRONIC REFERENCE PRODUCTS Thank you for purchasing Crosswords. Crosswords (CW-40) is a pocket-sized crossword puzzle buster. It con- tains over 250,000 words from a variety of Merriam-Webster reference works (Webster’s Official Crossword Puzzle Dictionary among others), a Second Guess feature which expands word lookups, a Jumble key which finds words from a set of typed-in letters, a Phrase key which will find all...
  • Page 3: Getting Started

    NOTE: If you make a mistake while typing, press letter. Press and the screen below appears: ENTER “Conundrum” (a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun) is an answer to CROSSWORDS (CW-40) ON/OFF . If the display to erase the last...
  • Page 4: Matchmaker With Other Word Games

    “?” for it and the word still counts as eight letters long. Using Matchmaker for Other Word Games Matchmaker is Franklin’s exclusive pattern-matching capability. We al- ready introduced you to the “Letter Detective” character “?”. Now we’d like to show you how to use the other Matchmaker character which we call the Fragment Finder, “...
  • Page 5: Second Guess

    to know what words have the letters “act” in them, at the beginning, mid- dle, or end. Press . Type Press . The screen below appears: ENTER You now have a list of all of the words containing the word “act”. Just find one which contains the letters included on your letter rack and nail that triple-word-score space.
  • Page 6: Phrases

    case. This is to illustrate that the “Second Guess” feature has substituted another letter for the one which was typed-in. If you press , you’ll see other words which can be made from the word which was typed-in if one letter is changed. If you still don’t see a word which will solve the puzzle, and you suspect that two letters in your original word may be wrong, press again.
  • Page 7 ENTER Soon you’ll see a list of words which may be used on the Scrabble board: “onyx”, for example. And if you use the blank piece: “oryxes”. Big points, big points! Crosswords is also great if that triple-word-score is sitting within striking distance and you’re not sure if you can take advantage of it.
  • Page 8: Technical Specifications

    — 250,466 word crossword correction list — Matchmaker II single character and prefix/suffix correction — word list edited and maintained by Merriam-Webster Microprocessor: 65C02 with a Franklin proprietary master control chip ROM (Read Only Memory): 4 Megabits RAM (Read/Write Memory): 2 Kilobytes...
  • Page 9 Trouble? Crosswords is designed to provide many years of reliable service. The most common sources of trouble are: — Weak battery — Improperly installed battery — LCD contrast not adjusted properly Please check the above problems first. NOTE: A weak battery may cause Crosswords to behave strangely, and possibly display incorrect or meaningless information on the screen.
  • Page 10: Warranty

    Each product returned must include the user’s name, address, and telephone number, as well as a brief description of the nature of the defect and a copy of the sales receipt as proof of the date of the original retail purchase. Franklin will, at its option, repair or replace any product at no further charge to the end user on determination by Franklin, in its sole discretion, that the product was defective and that such defect arose within the du- ration of this limited warranty.
  • Page 11 Used to call up various response screens. ENTER One of Franklin’s Matchmaker function keys. This is the Matchmaker key and is used to activate Franklin’s exclusive pattern matching function. The second of Franklin’s Matchmaker function keys. This key activates the Letter Detective which performs...

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