EXCALIBUR 458 The New York Times QuizMaster - Manual (Page 5)

player scores 5, 0 or -5 points for the
second, third and fourth correct
guesses.
The player scores -10 points for the
fourth incorrect guess.
Note that using the
HINT
or
PASS
but-
tons will not affect a player’s score.
Sound
Any time during a game, press and
hold the
UP
and
DOWN
buttons togeth-
er if you want to change the sound
setting. Either SOUND ON or
SOUND OFF
will be displayed.
Press either
UP
or
DOWN
to select the
desired choice for sound, and then
press
ENTER
to confirm your choice
and return to the previous screen. If
the screen displaying the sound selec-
tion is not changed for three seconds,
the unit will automatically choose the
sound level that is currently displayed
and will return to the previous screen.
Additional Comments
At the end of each game, one of the
following comments will be dis-
played:
EXCELLENT!, GREAT!,
GOOD!
or TRY AGAIN!
The computer chooses which com-
ment to show based on the following
criteria:
(a) EXCELLENT! will be dis-
played when you achieve a perfect
score.
(b) GREAT! will be displayed
when your score is equal to or
greater than seven times the
number of questions you
chose to answer in a game, but is
less than a perfect score.
(c) GOOD! will be displayed when
your score is equal to or greater
than four times the number of
questions you chose to
answer in a game, but is less than
a GREAT! score.
(d) TRY AGAIN! will be displayed
when your score is less than a
GOOD!
score.
Automatic Power Off
When no buttons are pushed for 2.5
minutes, Trivia Quiz will turn itself
off to preserve the batteries. Simply
press the
ON
/
OFF
button to return to
the game where you left off playing.
Manual Power Off
If you press ON / OFF while a game is
underway, the unit will be turned off.
Pressing ON / OFF again will begin a
new game.
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Your score will be displayed and the
same question will automatically
appear for the next person. Press
ENTER
to continue.
If you did not select the right answer
during your turn, WRONG will be
displayed and you may try again to
select the right answer. If you select
four wrong answers, THE COR-
RECT ANSWER IS:
will be dis-
played as well as the right answer.
The same question for the next play-
er will automatically appear. Press
ENTER to continue.
You may check scores any time dur-
ing the game by pressing
SCORE
.
Pressing this button once will display
the first score, and pressing it imme-
diately again will display the next
player’s score, and so on for the
remaining players. After all the play-
ers’ scores have been displayed, the
next time you press SCORE will return
Trivia Quiz to the previous screen. If
you press SCORE only once, you will
be automatically returned to your pre-
vious screen after one second.
When the final answer of the game
has been completed by the last play-
er, END will be displayed. The score,
and the number of correct answers
picked out of the number of total
questions in the game, will then be
shown for each player. Depending on
how well each player scored, one of
these comments will appear on the
screen: EXCELLENT!, GREAT!,
GOOD!
or TRY AGAIN! After this,
the message PLAYER: X WINS!
will be displayed, with X being
replaced with the number of the win-
ning player.
In the Multiple-Players game mode,
no passes are available. If the PASS
button is pressed, the message NO
PASS AVAILABLE!
will be dis-
played.
A player can press the
HINT
button
only three times for any question.
Each time the button is pressed, the
game will eliminate one incorrect
answer. The screen will show
CHOICES X ELIMINATED,
with the
X being the letter of the answer delet-
ed out of the choices A through E. If
you press
HINT
four times during a
question, or you run out of hints, the
message NO HINT AVAILABLE!
will be displayed.
Scoring
At the beginning of a game, each
player’s score begins with zero (0).
Each time a question is completed,
the score will be updated. It is possi-
ble to have negative scores, as indi-
cated below.
If a question is answered correctly on
the first attempt, 10 points is added to
the player’s score. If the question is
not answered correctly the first time,
each additional attempt to answer the
question correctly reduces the play-
er’s score by 5 points. Therefore the