How to play – Excalibur electronic NY90 User Manual

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How to Play

SuDoku

The object of the game is

to place numbers in the
empty squares so that each
row, each column and each
three by three grid contains
the numbers one through
nine once.

Getting Started

Plug it into your television

and then turn it on by
switching the power switch
to ON on the top of the unit.

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Plug & Play

When the game turns on,

the following screen will
appear on your television.

Figure 1: Opening Screen

Use the

DIRECTIONAL KEY

PAD

to scroll up and down

the menu items. If there's a
saved puzzle, the

RECALL

option will appear on the
bottom of the menu screen.
Press the

START

ENTER

but-

ton to confirm your selec-
tion.

To begin playing, select

the

PLAY NOW

! option. Players

may also customize a puzzle
by selecting

CREATE A PUZ

ZLE

. Players can also select

OPTIONS

to adjust the game

setting.

After selecting

PLAY NOW

the following screen will
appear on your television:

Figure 2: Select Level

Use the

and

DOWN

but-

tons to select one of the lev-
els of difficulty and press the

START

ENTER

button to con-

firm. The following screen
will appear on your televi-
sion.

Figure 3: Puzzle Selection

Screen

Scroll through the differ-

ent puzzles per level of diffi-
culty by using the

LEFT

RIGHT

button of your

DIREC

TIONAL KEYPAD

. Press the

DOWN

button of your

DIRECTIONAL

KEYPAD

scroll by ten puzzles at a
time. Press and hold the

DOWN

button to scroll

quickly through all of the
puzzles.

Once you've found the

puzzle you want to play,
press the

START

ENTER

but-

ton to confirm. The follow-
ing screen will then appear.

Figure 4: Puzzle

Use the

DIRECTIONAL KEY

PAD

to move the cursor

around the screen. The
square you are on will be
marked in red. The numbers
available for that box will
turn red on the right side of
the screen if the show possi-
bilities function is on.

Once you've reached a

square that you know the
answer for, press the respec-
tive number button. This
number will appear white if
incorrect or black if correct
if the incorrect number alert
is on. It will appear red if it