•Some of the tools on the tool menu are not available
for use during game play.If a tool is not available for use, you will hear
a tone.The Home and the Save It (and Volume Control) tools are
always available for use.
•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 69, Calibrating the Stylus.
Let’s Go!
Before inserting a software cartridge, turn power off! Insert the
software cartridge into the software port. Turn power back on.
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Software Port
Software Cartridge
Mazes, Puzzles and Games
Choose Mazes, Puzzles or Games from the Home Screen.
Touch your choice on the screen with the stylus.
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Mazes
Puzzles
Games
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Now,choose an activity.
Touch your choice on the screen with the stylus.
Mazes
Maze Challenge
Maze Library
Maze Maker
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•When you find one that you like,
touch the screen with the stylus.
Maze Library
Object of the Game: Find your way out of the maze!
•Touch the arrows on the bottom of
the screen with the stylus to view
eight different mazes.
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•Look at the blinking square in the maze.
This is the start point.
•Look at the blinking box in the maze.
This is the end point.
Start Point
End Point
•Touch the start point with the stylus on
the screen. Now,drag it to make a trail
through the maze on the screen.
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•Continue to drag the stylus through
the maze to get to the end point.
Hint: There is no time limit!
•If you hit a dead end, simply retrace your
trail (the trail erases as you retrace) with
the stylus and try a different direction.
•When you’ve found your way out,
great job!
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•Choose another maze!
Hint: If you’d like to go to a different activity,
touch Home on the tool menu to return
to the Home Screen.
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•Begin your custom designed maze.
Look at the grid on the screen. Touch
any of the flashing dots on the screen
with the stylus.
Maze Maker
Object of the Game: Design your own maze and then find your way out of it!
•Choose a color from the color palette.
Touch your choice on the screen with
the stylus.
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•Look again at the grid on the screen.
Touch any of the flashing dots on the
screen with the stylus to create the first
part of the path.
•Look at the first part of the path.
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•Repeat this procedure to add more
parts of the path.
•Touch the smiley face on the screen
with the stylus after completing
your design.
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•Now watch as Pixter® puts in random
lines to add twists and turns. Do you
remember the path you made?
•Look at the blinking dot and the smiley
face in the maze on your screen.The
blinking dot is the start point; the smiley
face is the end point.
End Point
Start Point
•Touch the start point with the stylus on
the screen. Now,drag it to make a trail
through the maze on the screen.
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•Continue to drag the stylus through
the maze to get to the end point.
Hint: There is no time limit!
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•If you hit a dead end, simply retrace your
trail (the trail erases as you retrace) with
the stylus and try a different direction.
•When you’ve found your way out,
great job!
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•Design another maze!
Hint: If you’d like to go to a different activity,
touch Home on the tool menu to return
to the Home Screen.
•Look at the blinking square in the maze
on your screen.The blinking square is
the start point; the other square is the
end point.
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•Choose a game level – 1, 2 or 3.
Level 1 - complete 3 mazes
Level 2 - complete 5 mazes
Level 3 - complete 10 mazes
Maze Challenge
Object of the Game: Score as many points as you can as you find your way
out of many mazes! Look for the hidden portals to skip through mazes.
Start Point
End Point
•Touch the start point with the stylus on
the screen. Now,drag it to munch the dots
on your screen as you go through the
maze. Each dot is worth one point.
Hint: Hurry….you have 20 seconds to get to
the end point.
•If you have time,enter a sliding door
(you’ll get 10 points!).
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Sliding Door
•Munch the markings inside the sliding
door (by dragging the stylus on the
screen) and get out as fast as you
can to get to the end of the maze.
Each marking is worth 3 points!
•Continue to drag the stylus through
the maze to get to the end point.
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•If you hit a dead end, simply retrace your
trail with the stylus and try a different
direction.
Hint: If you hit a dead end, 5 points are
taken away.
•When you get to an end point, the screen
switches to a new screen. Simply continue
on your trail! You have another 20 seconds
to complete this next maze.
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•If you don’t reach the end point within
20 seconds, you get another try!
Hint: You get three tries!
•As you continue on, watch to enter
portals! You get an extra 50 points!
You automatically move ahead to
another maze.
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