EXCALIBUR 458 The New York Times QuizMaster - Manual (Page 4)

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If you did not select the right answer,
WRONG
will be displayed and you
may try again to select the right
response. If you select four wrong
answers, you’ll see THE CORRECT
ANSWER IS:
appear on screen, and
the right answer will be displayed.
Then the next question will automati-
cally appear. Press
ENTER
to continue.
You may check your score any time
during the game by pressing the
SCORE button. Pressing it once will
display your score, and pressing it
again immediately will return you to
the previous screen. If you press
SCORE
only once, you will be auto-
matically returned to your previous
screen after one second.
When you’ve completed the last
question and answer of a game, END
will be displayed. Your score will be
displayed on screen, together with the
number of correct answers you
picked out of the total number of
questions in the game. Depending on
your result, one of the following
comments will appear: EXCEL-
LENT!, GREAT!, GOOD! or TRY
AGAIN!
If you want to skip a question during
the game, press the
PASS
button. (The
question must be displayed for you to
use this option.) You can use the
PASS
option only twice during a game. The
third time you try to pass a question
during a game, the message NO
PASS AVAILABLE!
will be dis-
played.
Remember that you also have the
option of getting a hint. You may
press the HINT button only three times
for any one question. Each time the
HINT button is pressed, the game will
eliminate one incorrect answer, indi-
cated by CHOICES X ELIMINATED
appearing on the LCD. (The X will
be the actual answer deleted out of A
through E.) If you press
HINT
four
times while answering a question, or
if you run out of hints, the message
NO HINT AVAILABLE!
will be dis-
played.
Multiple Players Game Mode
After selecting the Players game
mode, you will be asked to choose
how many players you’d like to have
in the game. If there are two players,
which is the default setting, simply
press
ENTER
. If you would like a dif-
ferent number of players, press
UP
to
display the choice of either three or
four players. (The DOWN button
allows you to decrease the number of
players in the game.) Press ENTER
when the number of players dis-
played is the number you would like
to have in the game.
You’ll next be asked to choose how
many questions you would like to
answer in this game. If you’d like to
answer eight questions (the default
number), simply press
ENTER
. If you
would like to answer a different num-
ber of questions, press the
UP
button
to display the option of either 16, 24
or 40 questions. (The
DOWN
button
will allow you to decrease the num-
ber of questions you would like to
select.) Press ENTER when the number
of questions displayed is the number
you would like to answer.
You’ll then be asked to choose how
many hints you would like in this
game for the first player. (NOTE:
each player can select a different
number of hints, so “handicapping” is
possible. For example, a parent could
choose 8 hints, while his child may
choose 24.) 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 using the
UP
and
DOWN
buttons as described in
the previous step above. Then press
ENTER to confirm your choice. Repeat
this process for each player to indi-
cate how many hints a player is
allowed.
The message QUESTION 1 and
PLAYER 1
will next be displayed on
your screen. Press
ENTER
.
Now the topic of the question will
appear on the LCD. Press DOWN to
display the question. A “Q:” will
appear on the screen, followed by the
beginning of the question. Pressing
the DOWN button repeatedly will dis-
play the remainder of the question,
screen by screen.
When you then reach the end of the
question, CHOICES: will be dis-
played. At this point, pressing the
DOWN
button repeatedly will show the
five answers, A through E. When you
press the
DOWN
button and no more
answers appear, ‘END!’ will be
shown for one second. Press the
UP
button repeatedly to review the
answers and the question. When you
reach the top of the question, ‘TOP!’
will be shown for one second.
When CHOICES: is on the screen,
press either the
A
,
B
,
C
,
D
or
E
button
to select your answer. If you selected
the right answer, CORRECT! will be
shown and then the screen will dis-
play some interesting information
about the question. To read all of the
remark, press the
DOWN
button
repeatedly. When you reach the end
of the remark, END! will appear on
the screen for one second. (Press
UP
repeatedly to review the remark.)
Press
ENTER
any time to exit the
remark.