Trivia – Excalibur electronic ABC Sports Sports Master A04 User Manual

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last player and pressed
ON/

ENTER

to confirm that num-

ber, your screen will display
“

QUESTION 1 PLAYER 1.

”

Now hand your Sports Master to
Player 1. Player 1 presses the
ON/ENTER key to display his
first question.

To answer a question

After the first question is dis-

played, the player then presses the

DOWN

key to view the entire

question and its choice of
answers. (The

key can be

used to scroll up to review the
question if necessary.) If the play-
er thinks he knows the answer, he
then presses ON/

ENTER

. The

options

and

will next

be displayed. The

and

DOWN

keys are used to step

through these options until the
desired letter-answer is reached.
Pressing ON/

ENTER

confirms

the choice of answer.

If the answer is correct, the

screen first displays “

COR-

RECT!

” and then shows the play-

er number and his score. If the
answer is incorrect, the screen
first displays “

WRONG!

” and

then the remaining options. In
that case, the player can press the

BACK

key to display the question

and answers again, and then press
ON/

ENTER

again to display the

remaining options. The player
uses the

and

DOWN

keys to

step through the options, stopping
at the answer he thinks is correct
and pressing ON/

ENTER

to con-

firm.

If the second attempt to answer

a question is also incorrect, the
screen will first display
“

WRONG!

” followed by the

remaining options. Press the

BACK

key to display the question

again if you need to see it, and
then press ON/

ENTER

to display

the remaining options. Use the

and

DOWN

keys to step

through these answer choices.
Then press ON/

ENTER

to con-

firm your answer.

If the third attempt to answer a

question is still incorrect, Sports
Master’s screen displays
“

WRONG!

” followed by the cor-

rect answer.

To pass, get a hint or
check your score

When a player doesn't know

the answer to a question or is
unsure, he can press the

key and use the

and

DOWN

keys to step through the menu

seating capacity. Selecting
“

FINDER

” gives you all the con-

tact info for that sport and its sta-
diums by team—where to call or
go online to buy tickets, for
example, and the street address.

Trivia

Selecting

TRIVIA

, the next-to-

last item on the home menu, gives
you access to a sports trivia game
with more than 400 questions that
you can play by yourself or with
friends!

TRIVIA GAME SET UP

To play Sport Master’s Trivia

Game, begin by pressing the

and

DOWN

keys to step through

the main menu until the arrow
points to

TRIVIA

. Then press

ON/

ENTER

. The screen will then

display “

PLAYERS 1.

” Use the

and

DOWN

keys to change

the number of players if there are
additional players. Then press
ON/

ENTER

to confirm the num-

ber of players.

Now the screen will display

“

CHOICE OF QUESTION:

10.

” Press the

and

DOWN

keys to change the number of
questions you’d like Sports
Master to ask during the game.

You can choose either 10 or 20.
Press ON/

ENTER

to confirm the

number of questions you’ve
selected.

Next you’ll see that the screen

displays “

PLAYER 1 HINT 10

”

or “

PLAYER 1 HINT 20.

” Press

the

and

DOWN

keys to

change the number of hints you’d
like Sports Master to give. (This
is the total number of hints for the
entire set of questions. Up to two
hints can be displayed for each
question until all of the hints have
been used.) Using a hint elimi-
nates one of the incorrect choices.

Press ON/

ENTER

to confirm

the number of hints you’ve decid-
ed on. (Continue setting the num-
ber of hints for other players in
the same way. You may want to
allow certain players fewer or
more hints to make the game
more competitive. Younger play-
ers and players less knowledge-
able about sports may need to be
given more hints, whereas a
sports expert might not be
allowed any hints at all.)

PLAYING THE TRIVIA
GAME

After you’ve entered the num-

ber of hints to be allowed for the