Franklin CWM-206 User Manual

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CWM-206

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User’s Guide

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Introduction

Now there’s a fun way to make crossword
puzzles less puzzling. With your new

Puzzle Master

• find possible crossword answers when
you know only a few letters

• find more possible answers by
changing letters

• find phrases by typing a key word

• find possible answers by topics (such
as

Animals

• solve Anagrams

• play Crossword Quiz and Anagrams to
practice your puzzle solving skills.

Puzzle Master

words from Chambers
your knowledge with the available cross­word solutions, you can solve most cross­word puzzle words. This User’s Guide
shows you how. You can follow its num­bered steps by using the examples shown
or by using words that interest you.

you can . . .

and

Theatre

contains over 130,000

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. By combining

➤

➤

➤

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Key Guide

Function Keys

BACK

CLEAR

ENTER

MORE

ON/OFF

PHRASE

TOPICS

GAMES

Goes back one step or erases a letter.
Clears to the

Ready

Enters a word or scrolls text to the left.

HELP

Shows help information.
Finds more word choices.
Turns

Puzzle Master

Searches for phrases including key word.

Shows the Topics Menu.
Shows the Games Menu.

?

Types a

?

to stand for a letter.

Types a dash.

Direction Keys

Moves left.
Types a space or moves right.

Scrolls up a list or darkens the screen
contrast at the

Scrolls down a list or lightens the screen
contrast at the

Ready

Ready

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screen.

screen.

screen.

on or off.

Getting Started

➤

1. Turn your

2. Remove its battery cover.

3. Insert four LR03 batteries (AAA batter­ies) into the battery compartment.

Refer to the diagram in the battery compart­ment to learn how to insert the batteries.

4. Replace the battery cover.

Your
teries are inserted. A brief demonstration be­gins once it is turned on.

5. To stop the demonstration press CLEAR.

6. T o disable the demonstration, type
and then press ENTER.

Once the demo is disabled, the demonstration
will not begin each time you turn the product on.
To re-enable the demonstration, type

7. To make the screen lighter or darker,
press

Puzzle Master

Puzzle Master

or ➤ several times.

will turn on once the bat-

over.

✓ Resuming Where Y ou Left Off

To extend the battery life,
will automatically shut off within two min­utes if you forget to turn it off. When you
turn it on again, you return to the last
screen that you viewed.

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Puzzle Master

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Finding Words

➤

➤

Puzzle Master

crossword puzzles by finding missing letters.
Type a

?

know and let
matches from its word list.

1. Type a word with ?’s (e.g.,

To erase a letter, press BACK.
To type a space, press . You can type

capitals only.

2. Press ENTER to search.

A Crossword list appears.

3. Press to scroll down the list of
matching words.

A ? can stand for a hyphen as well as a
letter, as shown here.

4. Press CLEAR when finished.

helps you find answers to

in place of each letter that you do not

Puzzle Master

find all possible

?ALL??Y

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Finding Words

✓ Viewing Help Information

You can view help information at most
screens by pressing HELP. Help infor­mation automatically scrolls right on the
screen and returns to the place where
HELP was pressed.

✓ Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows show which arrow
keys you can press to view more.

✓ What is the Flashing ?

Some words belong to one or more top­ics. When you see the flashing T at the
right of the screen, press TOPICS to
view the topics with which that word is
associated. To learn more about topics,
read “Finding Words by Topic” on page 8.

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Finding More Words

If the word you are looking for is not on a
Crossword list, press MORE to find more pos­sibilities. When you press MORE,

ter

substitutes a letter for one that you have

typed. Try this example.

DOT

1. Type a word (e.g.,

Correct word

word was spelled correctly .

2. Press MORE.

Note: You can also press MORE from the

Ready

The lowercase letter is the new letter.

3. Press
the

matches.

These are all variations, with one letter
changed, of the original word

4. Press CLEAR when finished.

appears. This means the

screen.

and ➤ to scroll up and down

) and press ENTER.

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Puzzle Mas-

DOT

.

Finding Phrases

➤

Puzzle Master

can also find phrases that in-

clude a key word.

1. T ype a word in a phrase (e.g.,

2. Press ENTER to check for correct
spelling.

3. Press PHRASE.

NOTE: You can also press PHRASE
from the

Puzzle Master

While

Ready

screen.

searches for
phrases, a clock may appear. A list of
matching phrases appears.

4. Press

and ➤ to scroll up and down

the phrases.

5. Press CLEAR when finished.

✓ Correcting Misspellings

Puzzle Master

checker. However, it can correct only those
words that are in this crossword list from
Chambers
commonly used English words.

can also be used as a spell

®

. It may not recognize some

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CAT

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Finding Words by Topic

➤

You can even narrow your search by topic.
There are close to 200 topics from which to
choose. Topics range from

ology

.

1. Press TOPICS.

The Topics menu appears.

2. Type the letters of a topic you want.

Puzzle Master

cal order. Note: There are no topics starting
with the letters K, Q, X, or Y.

3.

Press ➤ and ➤ to scroll up and down
the

topics.

4. Press ENTER to select the topic.

The Ready screen appears with a flash­ing T.

5. At the Ready screen type your cross­word guess with ?’s.

6. Press ENTER.

7. Press
the Crossword list.

8. Press CLEAR when finished.

finds the topics in alphabeti-

and ➤ to scroll up and down

Academics

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to

Zo-

Finding Words by Topic

✓ Another way to find Words by Topic

T o find a list of the words associated with a
specific topic, first select a topic (e.g.,

Games & sports

ter ?’s to determine how long the words in
the list will be (e.g.,
again. While
words, a clock may appear. A list of match­ing words appears.

Now you can view every word that is four
letters long and listed under

sports

.

). Press ENTER. Next en-

????

). Press ENTER

Puzzle Master

searches for

Games &

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Setting the Skill Level for Games

➤

Puzzle Master

enhance your crossword puzzle solving skills

-- Anagram Solver, Crossword Quiz, and
Anagrams. To set the skill level for the
games, follow these instructions.

1. Press GAMES.

The first time you enter the Games Menu,
the message

The message
pears.

Any other time you access the Games
Menu, the game you last played appears.
Use

2. When the

pears, press ENTER.

The message

includes three games that

Select a game

Set Skill Level

to view the

Set Skill Level

Set Skill Level

option ap-

Pick Skill Level

10

appears.

also ap-

option.

appears.

Setting the Skill Level for Games

The option,

Beginner

, also appears.

3.Use ➤ or ➤ to view the skill level you
want -

Beginner, Intermediate

vanced

.

, or

Ad-

4. Press ENTER to select the skill level.

After the skill level is set, the message

Select a game

The first game option,

appears.

Anagram Solver

also appears.

✓ Understanding the Skill Level

The skill level changes the number of
correct guesses required in Anagrams. It
changes the number of letters hidden in
Crossword Quiz. Anagram Solver is
unaffected by the skill level.

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,

➤

Playing Anagram Solver

Anagram Solver builds words of a minimum
size from letters that you enter.

1. Press GAMES, if needed.

2. Use

3. Press ENTER to select it.

4. Type up to 14 letters.

5. Press ENTER.

or ➤ until you

Solver

.

You can type a letter more than once.

If the letters you type do not make a
word, you see

6. Use ➤ and
from your letters.

7. Press ENTER to play a new round.

to view the words built

see Anagram

No words

.

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Playing Crossword Quiz

➤

To play Crossword Quiz, you must guess a
mystery word. Its topic appears briefly before
each round.

1. Press GAMES.

2. Press

word Quiz

3. Press ENTER to select it.

The topic of the mystery word briefly ap­pears.

4. T ype letters in place of the ?’ s.

If you type a letter that is not in the
word, you see
guessed a letter correctly , continue to
type letters until
score appears after each round and
clears to zero when you exit the game.

5. Press ? to reveal one letter and for­feit the game.

6. Press ENTER to play another round.

7. Press CLEAR when finished.

or ➤ until you see

.

No, try again

Y ou win!

appears. Your

Cross-

. If you

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Playing Anagrams

➤

➤

Anagrams challenges you to find the ana­grams of words. An anagram is a word
formed from some or all the letters of an­other word.

1. Press GAMES, if needed.
or

2. Press

press ENTER to select it.

Note: The number of possible words appears
at the right of the screen.

3. Type an anagram and then press ENTER.

If the anagram is correct, OK appears.

4. Enter more anagrams.

5. Press ? to rearrange the letters.

6. Use

you have already entered, if any .

7. To end the round and see all the ana-

grams, press ? and then use ➤.

8. Press ENTER to play a new round.

to see

and

to see the anagrams that

Anagrams

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and then

About the Batteries

This product uses four LR03 batteries (AAA
batteries). The battery should be changed
when the screen contrast is too light even
after adjustment.

Important Notes

1. Different types of batteries or new and

used batteries are not to be mixed.

2. Only batteries of the same or equivalent

type as recommended are to be used.

3. Batteries are to be inserted with the

correct polarity.

4. Exhausted batteries should be re-

moved.

5. The supply terminals are not to be

short-circuited.

This unit may change operating modes due to
Electro-static Discharge. Normal operation of this
unit can be re-established by pressing the reset key,
ON/OFF, or by removing/replacing batteries.

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Product Care

Model CWM-206

Puzzle Master

• Size: 13.5 x 8.9 x 2.3 cm • LCD: 1 x 16 characters

• Battery: four AAA batteries • Weight: 4.0 ounces

Product Care and Customer Service

To clean this product, spray a mild glass cleaner onto a cloth
and wipe its surface. Don’t spray liquids directly onto the unit.
Don’t use or store your unit in extreme or prolonged heat, cold,
humidity, or other adverse conditions.
If you have a problem with your unit, refer to the warranty. If
you purchased your unit outside the United Kingdom, contact
the place of purchase to obtain warranty or repair information.

Copyrights, Trademarks, Patents, and ISBN

© 2002 Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc. Burlington, NJ
08016-4907 U.S.A. All rights reserved. Complies with the limits
for a Class B computing device pursuant to Part 15 of FCC
Rules. All rights reserved.

FCC Tested to Comply With FCC Standards
FOR HOME OR OFFICE USE
Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This

device may not cause harmful interference; and (2) this de­vice must accept any interference received, including interfer­ence that may cause undesired operation.

© 1994 Chambers Harrap Ltd. All rights reserved.
U.S. PATENTS: 4,490,811; 4,830,618; 4,891,775;

5,249,965; 5,218,536; 5,113,340; 5,203,705; 5,396,606;
5,435,564.
EURO. PAT. 0 136 379. Patents Pending.

ISBN 1-56712-566-2
CE √N681

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IDS-28002-00
P/N 7201488 Rev. B

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