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EXCALIBUR E108 Einstein Brain Station User Manual

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In some situations you can retract your

last action by pressing CLEAR. Note

also:

• Your remaining time “counts down”

on the display.

• A “Big Ben” chiming sequence means

you have 5 minutes left.

• Three slow chimes mean the time is

up. You can still carry on solving,

but you lose points. Your excess time

is displayed “blinking”.

• In some activities, you are given a

series of separate tasks to complete

within the time.

• You can “give up” by pressing

SOLVE. The computer then shows

you the solution, and you can press

ENTER to see your score – you

receive points if you solved part of the

puzzle correctly.

1.4 S

TARTING

A

FRESH

PUZZLE

OR

GAME

You may do this at the end or in the

middle of an activity.

(1) Press the key marked NEW. The

computer asks you for confi rmation:

To switch between No and Yes, press UP

or DOWN. When Yes is “blinking”, press

ENTER. (By answering “no” you would

go back to where you were before.) In

several other situations, the computer asks

you to confi rm your command like this.

(3) The display now indicates the current

activity and level. For a puzzle or game of

the same type as before: simply select the

level (using UP/DOWN and ENTER), as

in § 1.3.3.

(4) For a different type of activity: press

the LEFT key. This takes you to the “sub-

menu” of games or puzzles (§ 1.3.2).

Then you can select a new item from this

sub-menu, using UP/DOWN and ENTER.

Alternatively press LEFT again (once or

twice, as necessary) to return to the main

menu and select a new category (§ 1.3).

1.5 S

WITCHING

O

N

/O

FF

To switch the unit on and off press

the ON/OFF key. When “off”, it will

remember the current puzzle.

2 THE “HELP” FEATURE

The machine itself can give information

on any of the activities. During a puzzle, a

press on the HELP key displays the “help

menu”:

• Now if you press 1, the computer

explains the rules of the current

activity. The information “scrolls”

across the bottom line of the display.

(Press CLEAR to continue.)

• If instead you press 2, the computer

states what actions you have available

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P U Z Z L E
R U L E S

2

W H A T
N E X T

3

U S E S
O F

T H E

K E Y S

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