EXCALIBUR 458 The New York Times QuizMaster - Manual (Page 3)

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Functions of Buttons
ON
/
OFF
: Press to turn the unit on and
off. If
OFF
is pushed when a game is
underway, a new game will begin
when you turn Trivia Quiz back on.
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PLAYER
: Press to enter the Single
Player game mode.
PLAYERS : Press to enter the Players
game mode if you’d like two to four
people to compete.
PASS : Can be used in the Single
Player game mode to skip over a
question. This function is not avail-
able in the Players game mode; the
message NO PASS AVAILABLE!
will be displayed.
HINT
: Press to eliminate one of the
incorrect answers.
SCORE : Press to check your game
score. This button is also used to
change the LCD display contrast.
Press SCORE and UP at the same time
to increase the contrast, and press
SCORE
and
DOWN
at the same time to
decrease the contrast.
A BUTTON : Press to select answer A.
B BUTTON
: Press to select answer B.
C BUTTON : Press to select answer C.
D BUTTON : Press to select answer D.
E BUTTON
: Press to select answer E.
ENTER
: Press to begin a game or to
confirm a choice.
UP : Press to scroll through an options
menu upward or to return to the pre-
vious screen. Press UP together with
SCORE to increase the LCD contrast.
D
OWN
: Press to scroll through an
options menu downward or to display
the next screen. Press with the
SCORE
button to decrease the LCD contrast.
RESET : Press to reset the game if the
unit locks up or malfunctions. RESET
is located on the back of the unit.
Playing Trivia Quiz
Getting Started
Press the ON / OFF button to begin a
game. You’ll hear a melody and see
the message NEW YORK TIMES
TRIVIA QUIZ
displayed for three
seconds, with NEW YORK TIMES
displayed on the first screen and
TRIVIA QUIZ
on the second screen.
Then 1 OR MORE PLAYERS? will
appear on the LCD. (Pressing
ON
/
OFF
to turn off Trivia Quiz will cause the
game to play a melody and display
QUIT!
before the unit turns off.)
When 1 OR MORE PLAYERS? is
displayed on the screen, press the 1
PLAYER
button to enter the single-
player game mode, or press the
PLAY
-
ERS
button to enter the multiple-play-
ers game mode. Press ENTER to con-
firm your choice.
1-Player Game Mode
After selecting the 1-Player game
mode, you’ll be asked to choose how
many questions you would like to
answer in the game. If you’d like to
answer eight questions, which is the
default number of questions, simply
press ENTER . If you’d like instead to
answer a different number of ques-
tions, press the UP button to display
either 16, 24 or 40 questions. (The
D
own button will allow you to
decrease the number of questions
you’d like to answer.) Press
ENTER
when the number of questions dis-
played is the number you’d like to
answer.
You’ll then be asked to choose how
many hints you want to have avail-
able in the game. The number of
hints allowed in the game depends on
the number of questions you chose to
answer.
(a) If you selected 8 questions,
you may choose 8, 16 or 24 hints.
(b) If you selected 16 questions,
you may choose 16, 32 or 48
hints.
(c) If you selected 24 questions,
you may choose 24, 48 or 72
hints.
(d) If you selected 40 questions,
you may choose 40, 80 or 120
hints.
Choose the number of hints you
would like in the game by pressing
UP or DOWN to increase or decrease
the number of hints. Then press
ENTER to confirm your choice when
the number of hints you want is dis-
played.
Next the message QUESTION 1 will
be displayed on your screen. Press
ENTER . The topic of the question will
be shown. (This can be a valuable
hint!) Press the DOWN button to dis-
play the question. First a “Q:” will
appear on the screen, followed by the
beginning of the question. Pressing
the
DOWN
button repeatedly will dis-
play the question screen by screen.
When the question is completed,
CHOICES:
will then be displayed,
and pressing DOWN repeatedly will
show the five possible answers, A
through E. If you press
DOWN
and
you see no additional answers, END!
will appear on the screen for one sec-
ond. Pressing the
UP
button repeated-
ly will allow you to review the
answers and the question. When you
have reached the beginning of the
question again, TOP! will appear on
the LCD for one second.
When CHOICES: is displayed on the
LCD, choose either the A , B , C , D OR
E
button to select your answer. If you
choose the right answer, you’ll see
the message CORRECT! and then the
screen will display REMARK:, fol-
lowed by some interesting informa-
tion about the question. To read all of
the remark, press the DOWN button
repeatedly. When you have reached
the end of the remark, END! will be
shown for one second. Pressing the
UP button repeatedly will allow you
to review the remark. Press
ENTER
any time to exit the remark. Your
score will then be shown and the next
question will automatically appear.
(The topic will be displayed again.)
Press ENTER to continue.