® Owner’s Manual Model Number: B8287 1
Let’s Go! Before inserting a software cartridge, turn power off! Insert the software cartridge into the software port. Turn power back on. Software Cartridge Software Port • Some of the tools on the tool menu are not available for use in some activities or games. The Home and the Save It! tools are only available for use. If a tool is not available for use, you will hear a tone. • Please keep this manual for future reference, as it contains important information.
Crazy Word Factory Choose an activity or game from the Home Screen: Silly Sentence Maker, Picture It! Poetry, Hidden Word Challenge, Word Surprise! or Crazy Combos! Touch the activity or game on the screen with the stylus.
Silly Sentence Maker • Pick a setting. • Touch the arrows on the bottom of the screen to scroll through different settings. • When you find one that you like, touch the screen with the stylus.
• Now, fill in the missing words in the sentences. • Touch a word "box" on the screen with the stylus. • Look at the different words on the screen. Touch your choice on the screen with the stylus.
• Touch another word "box" on the screen with the stylus. • Choose a word. Touch your choice on the screen with the stylus. • Repeat this procedure to fill all of the word "boxes".
• You’re back to your setting. • Touch the play button on the screen with the stylus to listen to your silly sentences.
• You can change the sentences if you’d like. Touch the word "box" on the screen with the stylus. • Choose a different word. Touch your chioice on the screen with the stylus.
• Touch the play button on the screen with the stylus to listen to your new sentences! • If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like to send your silly sentences to another Pixter® 2.0, touch the Save It or Send It tool on the tool menu with the stylus. Hint: If you’d like to save your silly sentences, touch Save It on the tool menu with the stylus. If you’d like to go to another activity, touch Home on the tool menu with the stylus.
Picture It! Poetry • Choose a poem to finish. Touch the arrows on the bottom of the screen with the stylus to scroll through choices. • When you find one that you like, touch the screen with the stylus.
• Touch a picture, word or phrase box on the screen with the stylus. • Choose a picture. Touch your choice on the screen with the stylus.
• Now, touch another picture, word or phrase box on the screen with the stylus. • Choose a phrase. Touch your choice on the screen with the stylus.
• Touch the large arrow on the screen with the stylus to go to the next sentence. • Repeat this procedure to fill all the boxes with a picture, word or phrase. • When you’re finished with your poem, touch the play button on the screen with the stylus to listen to your poem.
• You can change the poem if you’d like. Touch a picture, word or phrase box on the screen with the stylus. • Choose a different picture, word or phrase. Touch your chioice on the screen with the stylus.
• Touch the play button on the screen with the stylus to listen to your new poem. • If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like to send your poem to another Pixter® 2.0, touch the Save It or Send It tool on the tool menu with the stylus. Hint: If you’d like to save your poem, touch Save It on the tool menu with the stylus. If you’d like to go to another activity, touch Home on the tool menu with the stylus.
Hidden Word Challenge • Play for time or play for fun! Timed Play Play for Fun 17
Timed Play • Look at the screen. Look for words that are: - Horizontal - Vertical Timer Help • Keep track of your time in the lower left corner. • Touch the help button on the screen with the stylus for the list of words you are looking for. • Touch each letter of a word on the screen with the stylus.
• Good job! You found a word! • Look for another word. Hint: Remember, you’re being timed! • Would you like to see a list of the words your are looking for? Touch the help button on the screen with the stylus.
• These are the words you need to find! • Touch the screen with the stylus to go back to the activity screen. • If you touch a letter on the screen that is not part of a hidden word, it will not highlight.
• When you’ve found all of the hidden words, look at your time! • If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like to send your score to another Pixter® 2.0, touch the Save It or Send It tool on the tool menu with the stylus. Hint: If you’d like to go to another activity, touch Home on the tool menu with the stylus.
Play for Fun • Look at the screen. Look for words that are: - Horizontal - Vertical Number of Words to Find Help • Keep track of the number of words you need to find in the lower left corner. • Touch the help button in the lower right corner for the list of words you are looking for. • Find hidden words the same way as in timed play. Refer to pages 18 – 21 for information.
Word Surprise • Choose a word pattern. Touch the arrows on the bottom of the screen to scroll through choices. • Touch your choice on the screen with the stylus.
• Touch the blinking dot on the screen with the stylus. • Touch the next blinking dot on the screen with the stylus.
• Continue to touch the blinking dots on the screen with the stylus to form a word.
• If you’d like to add to your word picture, use any of the tools on the tool menu: "Pencil" Tool ; Straight Line ; Shape Maker ; Erase It ; or Special Effects Selector . • If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like to send your creation to another Pixter® 2.0, touch the Save It or Send It tool on the tool menu with the stylus. Hint: If you’d like to save your creation, touch Save It on the tool menu with the stylus. If you’d like to go to another activity, touch Home on the tool menu with the stylus.
Crazy Combos • Touch the arrows on the bottom of the screen with the stylus to scroll through different animals. • When you find one that you like, touch the screen with the stylus.
• Change the first part or the second part of the word. Touch the part on the screen with the stylus that you’d like to keep. • Now, choose a crazy, new word! Touch your choice on the screen with the stylus.
• Surprise! Look at what you’ve created! • If you’d like to add to your creation, you can use any of the tools on the tool menu: "Pencil" Tool ; Straight Line ; Shape Maker ; Erase It ; or Special Effects Selector .
• If you have a Pixter® 2.0 unit and you’d like to send your creation to another Pixter® 2.0, touch the Save It or Send It tool on the tool menu with the stylus. Hint: If you’d like to save your creation, touch Save It on the tool menu with the stylus. If you’d like to go to another activity, touch Home on the tool menu with the stylus.
Calibrating the Stylus IMPORTANT! The mark made on your screen from the stylus and the location of the tip of the stylus may not align. When this happens, you need to calibrate the stylus. • Turn Pixter® power on. Wait until you see the Home Screen. • Turn Pixter over and locate the calibration hole. • Insert, push and hold the stylus in the calibration hole. Turn Pixter over so that you can see the screen. • When you see two , remove the stylus from the calibration hole.
Care • Keep water, sand and dirt off of this cartridge. • Keep this cartridge away from direct sunlight and excessive heat. • Do not immerse the cartridge. Simply wipe the outside of the cartridge with a cloth to clean. • This cartridge has no consumer serviceable parts. Please do not take this cartridge apart.
One (1) Year Limited Warranty Fisher-Price, Inc., 636 Girard Avenue, East Aurora, New York 14052 warrants Pixter® Crazy Word Factory is free from all defects in material and workmanship when used under normal conditions for a period of one (1) year from the date of purchase. Should the product fail to perform properly, we will repair or replace it at our option, free of charge.
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