Franklin CW-40 User Manual

CW-40

crosswordsTM

puzzle solver

User’s Manual

WELCOME TO THE FRANKLINâ WORLD OF ELECTRONIC

REFERENCE PRODUCTS

Thank you for purchasing Crosswords.

Crosswords (CW-40) is a pocket-sized crossword puzzle buster. It contains 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 of the phrases in the product which contain the word you type in, and Matchmaker (Franklin’s patented pattern matching for prefixes, suffixes, word fragments and crossword style corrections).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Getting Started										2
Matchmaker with Crossword Puzzles										2
Matchmaker with Other Word Games										3
Second Guess										4
Phrases										5
Jumble										5
Technical Specifications										7
Warranty										9
Copyrights										9
Function Key Guide										Inside Back Cover

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CROSSWORDS (CW-40)

Getting Started

Turn Crosswords on by pressing ON/OFF .

The screen below appears:

The above screen is your indication that Crosswords is ready for you to type in a word.

ADJUST THE DISPLAY CONTRAST, if necessary, by pressing or several times. If the display seems too faint, try . If the display

seems too dark, or if you see nothing but dark squares, try .

IMPORTANT: The contrast can be adjusted from the “Ready” screen only.

AUTOMATIC SHUTOFF: To save battery life, your unit will turn itself off automatically if no key is pressed for a span of about 2 minutes.

Using Matchmaker to Help Solve Crossword Puzzles

Crosswords is great for finding those difficult words which always seem to pop up in the middle of a crossword puzzle. Suppose you’re looking for a nine-letter word that means “a riddle or a puzzle”, and so far you have filled in three letters:

_ _ _ U _ D R_ _

Simply type ???U?DR??.

NOTE: If you make a mistake while typing, press to erase the last letter.

Press ENTER and the screen below appears:

“Conundrum” (a riddle whose answer is or involves a pun) is an answer to

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the clue. To see another answer, press the down arrow key. Whenever you see a blinking down arrow at the far right of the screen, you can press the down arrow key to see more words.

NOTE: If you should happen to enter an incorrectly typed word, Crosswords will return words which are close to the misspelling. However, the word list in Crosswords was created for use as a game aid. We do not recommend its use as a general purpose spell-checking device.

Crossword puzzles don’t count blanks or punctuation when fitting a word into the spaces provided, so the version of Matchmaker included in Crosswords is specially tuned to account for this. For instance, suppose the clue is “may or may not be a strike”, and the mystery word is eight letters long. You’ve filled in a few letters and your puzzle looks like this:

_ O _ L _ A _ L

Type ?O?L?A?L.

Press ENTER and the screen below appears:

Notice that this term is presented with a blank space in it — but since that blank space doesn’t get a box to itself in the puzzle, you don’t use an extra “?” 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 already 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, “ ”. The Fragment Finder character represents zero or more letters.

Fragment Finder can be especially useful when playing Scrabble.

Suppose the word “act” is already on the board, and near the beginning or end of the word is a triple-word-score square you’d like to hit. You want

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