Franklin NYT-100 - Manual (Page 3)

Pressing HINT during a Timed game will add a
15-second penalty to your score.
In a Timed game, The No Match option is only
available at the Advanced or Expert level.
Puzzle Game
In a Puzzle game, you are shown only one
screen of cards and must find all the SETs
possible on the screen. You must reuse the
cards on the screen to find all the different
SETs. A lower time is a better score, with the
clock starting to count up from zero.
The number of SETs available and the number
of SETs found are displayed at the top of
the screen. There are four total SETs for the
3-feature game and six total SETs for the
4-feature game. The game ends when the last
correct SET is found.
Press VIEW to toggle between the game and
a list of the SETs already found. To return to
the game, press VIEW again.
Pressing HINT during a Puzzle game will add a
30 second penalty to your score.
The No Match option is not available in the
Puzzle game.
Arcade Game
In an Arcade game, you are given a time limit
to find as many SETs as you can. The clock
counts down from the initial time limit. The
initial time limit is is based on the skill level
setting for the game: 10 minutes for Beginner,
6 minutes for Intermediate, 4 minutes for
Advanced, or 2 minutes for Expert. Within
each game, there are levels. After each level
is passed, time is added to the time limit.
The amount of time added is based on the
skill level setting. For every two SETs found,
the game moves to the next level, with less
and less time added to the time limit as you
increase in game levels.
The Arcade game is scored by the number of
SETs found. The higher the number of SETs,
the better your score. No points are deducted
for incorrect SETs. 5, 10, 15, or 20 seconds is
subtracted from your play time each time
you use HINT in this game. The number of
seconds subtracted increases according to
the skill level chosen.
The No Match option is only available in an
Arcade game at the Advanced or Expert level.
HINT Button
If you are stuck and cannot find a SET, you can
press HINT and the computer will find a SET
for you. The SET will flash three times and the
cards will be replaced. Or, you can continue
to look for a SET yourself without help from
the computer, but then you risk having a
higher time or taking more time to complete
the game in Timed or Arcade games.
Using the HINT button will deduct the
following penalty from your score:
Game Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
Classic Deducts Deducts Deducts Deducts
1 point 2 points 3 points 4 points
Timed Adds 15 Adds 15 Adds 15 Adds 15
seconds seconds seconds seconds
Puzzle Adds 30 Adds 30 Adds 30 Adds 30
seconds seconds seconds seconds
Arcade Deducts 5 Deducts 10 Deducts 15 Deducts 20
seconds seconds seconds seconds
from the from the from the from the
play time play time play time play time
“No Match” Condition
At the Advanced and Expert levels of the
Classic, Puzzle, and Arcade games, there is one
chance in 50 that the 9 or 12 cards displayed
cannot form a SET. If you correctly choose NO
MATCH (press ▲ and ▼ at the same time),
the computer reacts as if you had correctly
selected a valid SET of three cards. If a SET
does exist on the screen, then the computer
reacts as if you had selected an invalid SET.
Customizing Your Game
You can change the skill level and make other
changes using the OPTIONS menu.
1. Press MENU.
2. Select OPTIONS from the menu.
Features Option
You can select the number of features (color,
shape, shading, number) that will show on
the cards, either 3 or 4. For example, you can
reduce the number to 3 so that only three
of the four features will be part of the game
play and the fourth feature will be the same
or constant across all the cards. The feature to
be the same on all the cards will be randomly
chosen by the computer when you start a
game. This reduces the number of playable
cards in a game from 81 to 27.
Skill Level Option
You can change the skill level for all the
games. In Classic, changing the skill level
varies the amount of time before the
computer takes its turn. In Arcade, it varies the
amount of time originally given and also the
amount of time added after a SET is found.
Choosing Advanced or Expert adds the No
Match possibility to your game in Classic,
Timed, and Arcade.
The skill level setting also adjusts the amount
of time before the auto-hint appears (if Auto-
hint is set to ON).
Auto-hint Option
You can choose whether to let the computer
give you an automatic hint if you don’t select
a card within a specified length of time. The
time depends on skill level chosen. When the
Auto-hint option is set to ON, the computer
briefly highlights two cards that are members
of a SET. You then need to select those two
cards given in the hint and find the third card
for the SET.
There are no penalties if you use Auto-hint.
The amount of time before the Auto-hint
cards are highlighted:
Game Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
Classic 20 seconds 10 seconds No No
Auto-Hint Auto-Hint
Timed 20 seconds 30 seconds 45 seconds 60 seconds
Puzzle 20 seconds 30 seconds 45 seconds 60 seconds
Arcade 20 seconds 25 seconds 30 seconds 40 seconds
Auto-shutoff Option
Auto-shutoff sets the time to wait before
automatically shutting off the device if a key
hasn’t been pressed.
You can choose 5, 10, or 15 minutes or you
can choose to disable Auto-shutoff.
Caution! If you disable Auto-shutoff and then
leave your device turned on, it will stay on
until the batteries are completely drained.
Auto-shutoff is a sleep mode.
1. To waken from sleep mode, press
PAUSE.
As long as the power switch remains in the
ON position, the game will resume where you
left off when awakened from sleep mode.
If you slide the ON/OFF switch to OFF during
a sleep mode, your current game will be lost.
When you turn the game back on, you will
have to start over.
High Score Option
The High Score function displays the highest
(or best) score for each game. The Timed and
Puzzle games display the lowest or fastest
time rather than a high score. If a high (or
best) score hasn’t been recorded for a game,
zero will be displayed.
1. To clear the scores, press and hold the
right arrow for 3 seconds.
2. Use or to select whether to clear the
scores or cancel.
3. Press SELECT.
Game Instructions Option
This option displays instructions on how to
play the games.
1. Use or to select general instructions
or instructions for a particular game.
2. Press SELECT.
3. If instructions are too long to fit on the
screen, use or to move down or up a
page.
4. To return to the menu, press SELECT.
End of Game
In Classic, Timed, and Arcade games, play
continues until all the cards in the deck have
been displayed and played. At the end of play,
there will be 9 or 12 cards remaining on the
screen.
In the Puzzle game, play continues until all
possible SETs are found.
Exiting the Game
1. To exit a game or start a new one, press
MENU.
2. Select one of the following:
• Exit to Main Menu
• Start a New Game
• Cancel (resume game)
The Cancel option appears only if MENU is
pressed during game play before the end of
the game is reached.