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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G a m e >
N o
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