Fisher-Price B8287 User Manual

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Model Number: B8287

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Model Number: B8287

Owner’s ManualOwner’s Manual

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Let’s Go!

• Some of the tools on the tool menu are not
available for use in some activities or games.
The Home and the Save It! tools are only available
for use. If a tool is not available for use,you will hear a tone.

• Please keep this manual for future reference,as it contains important
information.

IMPORTANT! If the tip of the stylus and the image on screen do not align,
it’s time to calibrate them! Please refer to page 31, Calibrating the Stylus.

Before inserting a software cartridge, turn power off! Insert the

software cartridge into the software port. Turn power back on.

Software Port

Software Cartridge

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Crazy Word Factory

Choose an activity or game from the Home Screen: Silly Sentence Maker,
Picture It! Poetry,Hidden Word Challenge,Word Surprise! or Crazy
Combos! Touch the activity or game on the screen with the stylus.

Silly Sentence

Maker

Picture It!

Poetry

Hidden Word

Challenge

Word Surprise!

Crazy Combos!

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Silly Sentence Maker

• Pick a setting.

• Touch the arrows on the bottom
of the screen to scroll through
different settings.

• When you find one that you like,
touch the screen with the stylus.

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• Now, fill in the missing words in
the sentences.

• Touch a word "box" on the screen
with the stylus.

• Look at the different words on the
screen.Touch your choice on the
screen with the stylus.

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• Touch another word "box" on the screen
with the stylus.

• Choose a word. Touch your choice on
the screen with the stylus.

• Repeat this procedure to fill all of the
word "boxes".

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• You’re back to your setting.

• Touch the play button on the
screen with the stylus to listen to
your silly sentences.

• Watch your silly sentences come to life!

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• You can change the sentences if you’d like.

Touch the word "box" on the screen with
the stylus.

• Choose a different word.Touch your chioice

on the screen with the stylus.

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• If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like

to send your silly sentences to another
Pixter® 2.0, touch the Save It or Send It
tool on the tool menu with the stylus.

Hint: If you’d like to save your silly sentences,
touch Save It on the tool menu with the
stylus. If you’d like to go to another activity,
touch Home on the tool menu with
the stylus.

• Touch the play button on the
screen with the stylus to listen to
your new sentences!

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Picture It! Poetry

• Choose a poem to finish. Touch the arrows
on the bottom of the screen with the
stylus to scroll through choices.

• When you find one that you like, touch
the screen with the stylus.

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• Choose a picture. Touch your choice

on the screen with the stylus.

• Touch a picture, word or phrase box

on the screen with the stylus.

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• Choose a phrase. Touch your choice on
the screen with the stylus.

• Now, touch another picture, word or
phrase box on the screen with the stylus.

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• Touch the large arrow on the screen
with the stylus to go to the next sentence.

• Repeat this procedure to fill all the boxes
with a picture, word or phrase.

• When you’re finished with your poem,
touch the play button on the screen
with the stylus to listen to your poem.

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• You can change the poem if you’d like.
Touch a picture,word or phrase box on
the screen with the stylus.

• Choose a different picture, word or

phrase.Touch your chioice on the
screen with the stylus.

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• Touch the play button on the

screen with the stylus to listen to
your new poem.

• If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like

to send your poem to another Pixter® 2.0,
touch the Save It or Send It tool on the
tool menu with the stylus.

Hint: If you’d like to save your poem, touch Save
It on the tool menu with the stylus. If you’d
like to go to another activity,touch Home
on the tool menu with the stylus.

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Hidden Word Challenge

• Play for time or play for fun!

Timed Play

Play for Fun

• Keep track of your time in the lower
left corner.

• Touch the help button on the screen
with the stylus for the list of words you are
looking for.

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• Look at the screen. Look for words that are:

- Horizontal

- Vertical

Timed Play

• Touch each letter of a word on the screen

with the stylus.

Timer

Help

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• Good job! You found a word!

• Look for another word.

Hint: Remember, you’re being timed!

• Would you like to see a list of the words
your are looking for? Touch the help
button on the screen with the stylus.

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• These are the words you need to find!

• Touch the screen with the stylus to go
back to the activity screen.

• If you touch a letter on the screen that

is not part of a hidden word, it will not
highlight. Try again!

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• When you’ve found all of the hidden
words, look at your time!

• If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d
like to send your score to another
Pixter® 2.0, touch the Save It or Send
It tool on the tool menu with
the stylus.

Hint: If you’d like to go to another activity,
touch Home on the tool menu with
the stylus.

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• Look at the screen. Look for words that are:

- Horizontal

- Vertical

Play for Fun

• Find hidden words the same way as
in timed play.Refer to pages 18 – 21
for information.

Number of

Words to Find

Help

• Keep track of the number of words you
need to find in the lower left corner.

• Touch the help button in the lower
right corner for the list of words you are
looking for.

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Word Surprise

• Choose a word pattern. Touch the arrows
on the bottom of the screen to scroll
through choices.

• Touch your choice on the screen with
the stylus.

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• Touch the blinking dot on the screen
with the stylus.

• Touch the next blinking dot on the
screen with the stylus.

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• Continue to touch the blinking dots on
the screen with the stylus to form a word.

• Look at the surprise word!

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• If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like
to send your creation to another Pixter®

2.0, touch the Save It or Send It tool
on the tool menu with the stylus.

Hint: If you’d like to save your creation, touch
Save It on the tool menu with the stylus.
If you’d like to go to another activity,touch
Home on the tool menu with the stylus.

• If you’d like to add to your word picture,
use any of the tools on the tool menu:
"Pencil" Tool ; Straight Line ; Shape
Maker ; Erase It ; or Special Effects
Selector .

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Crazy Combos

• Touch the arrows on the bottom of the
screen with the stylus to scroll through
different animals.

• When you find one that you like, touch
the screen with the stylus.

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• Change the first part or the second
part of the word.Touch the part on the
screen with the stylus that you’d like
to keep.

• Now, choose a crazy, new word! Touch
your choice on the screen with the stylus.

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• Surprise! Look at what you’ve created!

• If you’d like to add to your creation,you
can use any of the tools on the tool
menu: "Pencil" Tool ; Straight Line ;
Shape Maker ; Erase It ; or Special
Effects Selector .

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• If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d
like to send your creation to another
Pixter® 2.0, touch the Save It or Send It
tool on the tool menu with the stylus.

Hint: If you’d like to save your creation, touch
Save It on the tool menu with the stylus.
If you’d like to go to another activity,touch
Home on the tool menu with the stylus.

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IMPORTANT!The mark made on your screen from the stylus and the location
of the tip of the stylus may not align.When this happens, you need to calibrate
the stylus.

• Turn Pixter® power on. Wait until you see the Home Screen.

• Turn Pixter over and locate the calibration hole.

• Insert, push and hold the stylus in the calibration hole.Turn Pixter over
so that you can see the screen.

• When you see two , remove the stylus from the calibration hole.

• First touch the in the upper left corner with the tip of the stylus.

• Then, touch the in the lower right corner with the tip of the stylus.

Calibrating the Stylus

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Care

• Keep water,sand and dirt off of this cartridge.

• Keep this cartridge away from direct sunlight and excessive heat.

• Do not immerse the cartridge. Simply wipe the outside of the cartridge

with a cloth to clean.

• This cartridge has no consumer serviceable parts. Please do not take this

cartridge apart.

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One (1) Year Limited Warranty

Fisher-Price,Inc., 636 Girard Avenue,East Aurora, New York 14052 warrants
Pixter® Crazy Word Factory is free from all defects in material and workman­ship when used under normal conditions for a period of one (1) year from
the date of purchase.

Should the product fail to perform properly,we will repair or replace it at our
option, free of charge. Purchaser is responsible for shipping the product to
Consumer Relations at the address indicated above and for all associated
freight and insurance cost. Fisher-Price, Inc. will bear the cost of shipping the
repaired or replaced item to you.This warranty is void if the owner repairs
or modifies the product.This warranty excludes any liability other than
that expressly stated above including but not limited to any incidental or
consequential damages.

SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF
INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, SO THE ABOVE LIMITATION
OR EXCLUSION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

THIS WARRANTY GIVES YOU SPECIFIC LEGAL RIGHTS,AND YOU MAY ALSO
HAVE OTHER RIGHTS WHICH MAY VARY FROM STATE TO STATE.

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Consumer Information

Questions? We’d like to hear from you!

Call Fisher-Price® Consumer Relations,toll-free at 1-800-432-KIDS (5437),
8 AM- 6 PM EST Monday through Friday. Hearing-impaired consumers
using TTY/TDD equipment, please call 1-800-382-7470.Or, write to:

Fisher-Price®
Consumer Relations
636 Girard Avenue
East Aurora, New York 14052

For countries outside the United States:

CANADA

Questions? 1-800-567-7724, Mattel Canada Inc.,6155 Freemont Blvd., Mississauga, Ontario L5R 3W2.

GREAT BRITAIN

M

attel UK Ltd,Vanwall Business Park, Maidenhead SL6 4UB. Helpline: 01628 500302.

AUSTRALIA

Mattel Australia Pty.Ltd., 658 Church Street, Locked Bag #870,Richmond, Victoria 3121 Australia.
Consumer Advisory Service 1300 135 312.

NEW ZEALAND

16-18 William Pickering Drive,Albany 1331, Auckland.

ASIA

Mattel East Asia Ltd, Room 1106,South Tower, World Finance Centre,Harbour City,
Tsimshatsui, HK,China.

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