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If you have not turned the timer off, the
amount of time you have to make words
will be shown on the clock display.
You will also see your initial zero score,
which will be updated as you make
words. Longer letter length words receive
more points. If you do well and achieve a
good score, you will be given a Bonus
Round with a new grid of letters and
more time to make words and add to your
score.
Press
MENU
during this
Press Enter
Screen
to briefly see a
Score Screen
.
SCORES
HIGH 0000
LAST 0000
ROUND 0000
The score for the round will always be
zero, since the round has not started, but
the high score achieved thus far, and the
score from the last time you played will
be shown. The round score will always be
updated during play, but the timer must
be on, in order to update the last and high
score.
Now press
ENTER
to see those hidden
grid letters and begin your round.
Letter Square Play Screen
HINT KEY
If you are playing with the timer off, a
HINT
key will appear on the left of the
screen once play begins. Press this key
to display the first letter of the word with
the longest length. Repeatedly pressing
HINT
will cause the remaining letters of
that word to be displayed. Press
ENTER
to register the word. Once a word is reg-
istered and accepted as valid, it will
appear in the area above the letter grid.
If you are playing with the timer on, you
must first make words to achieve a cer-
tain score value before the
HINT
key
will appear. With each use of the
HINT
key, your score will be reduced. If your
score drops below a certain score, the
HINT
key will disappear and you will
need to make some words to get your
score back to the value that displays the
HINT
key.
ENTER KEY
Press
ENTER
to register the word. If it is
a valid word from the over 47,000-word
vocabulary, it will be scored, the count of
words using its letter length will be
reduced, and finally the letters will be
returned to the grid. If it is not a valid
word,
INVALID
will be displayed.
Once a word is registered and accepted as
valid, it will appear in the area above the
letter grid.
If you try to use
ENTER
to register a
word that has already been entered, an
“already registered” sound will be made,
and nothing else will happen. If you don’t
see that word in the entered word area,
press the
PAGE
key to see more entered
words.
PAGE KEY
Once you have entered enough words to
fill the entered words area, the next word
that is entered will go in the entered word
area, but that pushes one of the other
words to an alternate screen storage area.
When this occurs, the
PAGE
key will be
displayed on the left of the screen.
Pressing this
PAGE
key will display the
other words that have been entered but
that could not fit on the main play screen.
Pressing
PAGE
again will either go to the
next page of entered words, if there is
LETTER SQUARE
