Letters that are proposed are displayed
in the second box of the lower area of the screen
(6). Those you use to create your
word are displayed in the first box
(5).
Each time you select one letter in the second box in order to add it to
your word, this letter is moved from the bottom box to the upper box.
Proposing an invalid word does not lead to penalty. The list of correct
words you have already proposed is displayed in the notebook
(1) and you can turn pages with the
L and
R buttons (previous and next pages).
The available time is limited and reduces with the
number of levels you already have completed.
In order to go to the next level, you have to propose, during the
available time, a minimal number of words depending on the current
level. The progress status of the elapsed time is depicted by the
second progress-bar of the right side of the screen
(4).
This number of words also changes according to the
game level. You do not have to guess all the possible words according
to the dictionary. Only some percents depending on the current level is
sufficient. The total number of possible words is indicated at the top
left of the screen
(2).
More accurately, the cumulated number of letters of
all the words you proposed is important. In other words, the longer the
words you propose, the quicker you will be granted the right to go to
the next level. The first progress-bar, at the top right area of the
screen
(3) indicates your
progress percent according to the minimal performance required to be
allowed to go to the next level.
Once this minimal performance reached, you will be
warned but you will be able, if there is some time remaining (and some
ideas),
to continue playing with the current letters. In this case, all the
words you will propose until the time gets elapsed will bring you
double points.
Two extra buttons are available in the bottom right
area of the board:
- (7) : Allows to shuffle
the remaining letters. This sometimes allows finding new ideas, seeing
the letters in another order.
- (8) : Surrender and give
up the current level. If you already have reached the minimal
performance to access the next level, then you will go on to this
level, otherwise this will be considered as a surrender from you and
the game will end.
Once the time is elapsed, either you reached the minimal
performance and then you will go on the next level, or you did not
reach it and the game ends.
In this last case, the five highest scores are displayed.
Scores are automatically recorded at the end of each game.
Pressing the
A button allows removing this list
and going back to the game screen. You can then navigate with the
L and
R buttons among the list of all the
possible words that gets revealed to you. To start a new game, you then
just have to press the
A button.
Controls
- Direction
pad: Move to point a letter, or select the (bottom right)
buttons to shuffle letters or surrender.
- A button:
Select the pointed letter in order to add it to the word currently
built. Getting out of the message popups.
- B button: Remove the
last inserted letter from your proposition to put it back in the set of
available letters.
- L button: Navigate in
the list of the already proposed words (or in the list of solutions if
in and ended game) back to the previous page.
- R button: Navigate in
the list of the already proposed words (or in the list of solutions if
in and ended game) toward the next page.
- SELECT button: Validate
and submit the word with the current letters.
- START button: Pause the
game. Press the A button
allows to resume the game.
Scores
As long as you did not reach the minimal
performance, each letter of an accepted word weight 10 points.
Submitting a 7 letters long word provides 100 points. Once the minimal
performance is reached, all these points are multiplied by 2 (20
points per letter and 200 points for 7 letters).
Hence it can be appealing to keep the longest words
to submit them once the minimal performance is reached. However, in
order to reach it with shorter words, you will have to submit more
words. And because time is limited... up to you to find the best
balance.
Contact
For any information, suggestions, flames I can be reached by email
at :
francois_pessauxHATyahoo.fr
address in which, of course, you will
straight replace "HAT" by the character "@" (it's just to prevent
automated mail addresses scanners from registering me one more time, I
still receive enough spam !)
