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INSTRUCTION BOOKLET/MANUEL D INSTRUCTIONS

PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THE SEPARATE HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTIONS BOOKLET INCLUDED WITH THIS PRODUCT BEFORE USING YOUR NINTENDO® HARDWARE SYSTEM, GAME CARD OR ACCESSORY. THIS BOOKLET CONTAINS IMPORTANT HEALTH AND SAFETY INFORMATION.

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION: READ THE FOLLOWING WARNINGS BEFORE YOU OR YOUR CHILD PLAY VIDEO GAMES.

WARNING - Seizures

Some people (about 1 in 4000) may have seizures or blackouts triggered by light flashes or patterns, such as while watching TV or playing video games, even if they have never had a seizure before.
- Anyone who has had a seizure, loss of awareness, or other symptom linked to an epileptic condition should consult a doctor before playing a video game.
- Parents should watch when their children play video games. Stop playing and consult a doctor if you or your child have any of the following symptoms:

Convulsions

Altered vision

Eye or muscle twitching

Involuntary movements

Loss of awareness

Disorientation

To reduce the likelihood of a seizure when playing video games:

1. Sit or stand as far from the screen as possible.
2. Play video games on the smallest available television screen.
3. Do not play if you are tired or need sleep.
4. Play in a well-lit room.
5. Take a 10 to 15 minute break every hour.

WARNING - Radio Frequency Interference

The Nintendo DS can emit radio waves that can affect the operation of nearby electronics, including cardiac pacemakers.

• Do not operate the Nintendo DS within 9 inches of a pacemaker while using the wireless feature.
• If you have a pacemaker or other implanted medical device, do not use the wireless feature of the Nintendo DS without first consulting your doctor or the manufacturer of your medical device.
• Observe and follow all regulations and rules regarding use of wireless devices in locations such as hospitals, airports, and on board aircraft. Operation in those locations may interfere with or cause malfunctions of equipment, with resulting injuries to persons or damage to property.

WARNING - Repetitive Motion Injuries and Eyestrain

Playing video games can make your muscles, joints, skin or eyes hurt after a few hours. Follow these instructions to avoid problems such as tendinitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, skin irritation or eyestrain.

• Avoid excessive play. It is recommended that parents monitor their children for appropriate play.
  Take a 10 to 15 minute break every hour, even if you don't think you need it.
• When using the stylus, you do not need to grip it tightly or press it hard against the screen. Doing so may cause fatigue or discomfort.
• If your hands, wrists, arms or eyes become tired or sore while playing, stop and rest them for several hours before playing again.
  If you continue to have sore hands, wrists, arms or eyes during or after play, stop playing and see a doctor.

WARNING - Battery Leakage

The Nintendo DS contains a rechargeable lithium ion battery pack. Leakage of ingredients contained within the battery pack, or the combustion products of the ingredients, can cause personal injury as well as damage to your Nintendo DS.

If battery leakage occurs, avoid contact with skin. If contact occurs, immediately wash thoroughly with soap and water. If liquid leaking from a battery pack comes into contact with your eyes, immediately flush thoroughly with water and see a doctor.

To avoid battery leakage:

• Do not expose battery to excessive physical shock, vibration, or liquids.
• Do not disassemble, attempt to repair or deform the battery.
• Do not dispose of battery pack in a fire.
• Do not touch the terminals of the battery, or cause a short between the terminals with a metal object.
• Do not peel or damage the battery label.

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This Nintendo game is not designed for use with any unauthorized device. Use of any such device will invalidate your Nintendo product warranty. Copying of any Nintendo game is illegal and is strictly prohibited by domestic and international intellectual property laws. "Back-up" or "archival" copies are not authorized and are not necessary to protect your software. Violators will be prosecuted.

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VIDEO GAME SYSTEM.

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Recorded tips for many titles are available on Nintendo's Power Line at [phone]. This may be a long-distance call, so please ask permission from whoever pays the phone bill.

If the information you need is not on the Power Line, you may want to try using your favourite Internet search engine to find tips for the game you are playing. Some helpful words to include in the search, along with the game's title, are: "walk through," "FAQ," "codes," and "tips."

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©2008 Nintendo. TM, © and the Nintendo DS logo are trademarks of Nintendo. ©2008 Nintendo. This product employs Decuma® Handwriting Recognition Engine from ZI corporation. Decuma® is a registered trademark of ZI corporation.

CONTENTS

GETTING STARTED 6

CREATING A PROFILE 8

SELECTING A GAME 9

PUZZLE CONTROLS 10

CROSSWORDS 12

WORDSEARCH 19

ANAGRAMS 22

OPTIONS 24

CREDITS 25

MANUEL EN FRANÇAIS 30

GETTING STARTED

• Confirm that your Nintendo DS is turned off. Insert your Crosswords DS Game Card and turn the power on, and the screen on the right will appear. Once you've read this screen, tap the Touch Screen to proceed.
• To start the game, touch the Crosswords DS panel on the DS Menu Screen.

*If you have your Nintendo DS Start Mode set to Auto, the DS Menu Screen will not appear. See your Nintendo DS Instruction Booklet for more details.

TITLE SCREEN

At the title screen, you can choose from two options: Training and Main Game.

TRAINING

When you tap Training, you will enter the Training mode. In this mode, you can select any of the listed games for a short tutorial. Each tutorial will demonstrate how to use the various buttons and features found in the selected game.

*You can return to the title screen by touching

MAIN GAME

By selecting Main Game, you will be taken to the profile-selection screen and the game-selection screen.

CREATING A PROFILE

The profile-selection screen will allow you to create four unique profiles or select a previously created profile.

To create a new profile, tap New Profile. When asked which hand you write with, tap either left or right. This will orient the Nintendo DS based on your primary writing hand.

On the Create Profile screen, write your name one letter at a time in the yellow box on the Touch Screen.

If you make a mistake, you can use to erase the incorrect letter. Or you can write the new letter on top of the incorrect letter. To accept the name, touch Create.

*You can change your profile information under Options. See page 24.

SELECTING A GAME

On the game-selection screen, you can select to play Crosswords, Wordsearch, or Anagrams. Tap the game button to begin.

CROSSWORDS

Crosswords DS puzzles are played in the same manner as newspaper puzzles. Instead of using a pen or pencil, use the Nintendo DS stylus to write your answers on the Touch Screen.

Puzzles are separated into four levels of difficulty. Not all difficulties are available when you first start.

PUZZLE SELECTION

To select the puzzle you wish to play, press one of the 20 numbered tiles and then tap Select.

PUZZLE CONTROLS

CROSSWORDS

PAUSE

Tap this button to save your progress or give up.

HINTS

See page 14.

ADDL.CLUE

This button will become active from the Hints menu (see page 14). Once active, tap this button to switch between clues.

ACROSS/DOWN

Tap this button to switch between Across and Down squares. Across squares will appear blue, while Down squares appear pink. This button also changes the highlighted clue on the opposite screen.

ERASER

Tap this button to erase the current letter if you've made a mistake.

ZOOM

Tap this button to zoom in and out. You can also zoom by tapping the puzzle square twice.

HINTS

If you become stuck, tap Hints. This will allow you to select from three different types of hints. You can choose to receive an Additional Clue, show a letter in the current selected word, or have the word solved by Show Word.

When you use a hint, you will lose Hint Points and receive a time penalty, which will be added to your puzzle-completion time.

LETTER ENTRY

To solve a crossword puzzle, you must fill in each puzzle box with a letter. To enter the letter into the puzzle, use the following steps.

Touch the square in which you want to write your answer. The square will turn yellow when selected.

Tap Zoom or touch the highlighted square a second time.

Once zoomed in, use the stylus to write a letter in the yellow square. If correct, the letter will turn black, and the puzzle will automatically move to the next square so you can write the remaining letters.

ENTRY ASSIST

Entry Assist will prompt you when you have written an incorrect letter by displaying the letter in red and giving you an audio cue. In addition, the puzzle will not automatically scroll to the next letter, so you can fix the error.

You can fix the incorrect letter by touching to erase the letter. You can also write a new letter on top of the incorrect letter. Once the correct letter has been written, the puzzle will move to the next square.

You will be given the option to turn Entry Assist off in Medium and Hard difficulties.

COMPLETION SCREEN

Once you have solved the crossword puzzle, you will be taken to the completion screen.

PUZZLE COMPLETION

When you complete a puzzle, you will receive a "Completed" stamp. This will also be displayed on the puzzle-selection screen.

PUZZLE GRADE

Factors like using Entry Assist and Hints can lower your grade.

*In Easy, the highest grade is an "A," as Entry Assist cannot be turned off.

REVIEW

Allows you to review the completed puzzle.

DONE

Takes you to the puzzle-selection screen.

DIPLOMAS

As you progress through Crosswords DS, you will receive diplomas for each section of the game. There are three diploma levels (Novice, Expert, and Master) that are awarded based on puzzle difficulty or if you use assistance.

Note: You can only receive an Expert Diploma for Wordsearch.

WORDSEARCH

In Wordsearch, you will be given a list of randomly selected words that you must locate in a screen of letters. Your goal is to find the words in the fastest time possible. The size of the puzzle and amount of words that must be found are based on the puzzle size you select.

Small

Locate up to 14 words.

Large

Locate up to 42 words.

Bonus

Locate up to 28 words.

*Bonus puzzles are not immediately available but can be opened by solving puzzles in the other sections.

PUZZLE SELECTION

To select the puzzle you wish to play, press one of the 20 numbered tiles and then tap Select. Each puzzle has a unique theme, and the words found in the puzzle will relate to the chosen theme.

PAGE SELECTION

Each difficulty mode has multiple pages of puzzles. Press to scroll through each page of puzzles.

HIGHLIGHTING WORDS

To highlight a word, touch the first or last letter of the word with the stylus and slide over the entire word. Once you have highlighted the word, lift the stylus from the screen. If the word is valid, it will

remain highlighted

and also will be highlighted in the word list on the opposite screen.

UP/DOWN BUTTON

To scroll through longer word lists, tap 1 in the upper-right corner of the puzzle screen in the direction you wish to scroll the word list.

PUZZLE SCROLL BUTTONS

When playing larger puzzles, you will notice red direction arrows on the puzzle screen. By touching these arrows, you can move the puzzle screen in order to locate words in other areas of the puzzle.

ANAGRAMS

In Anagrams, your goal is to create as many unique words as possible using a set of randomly selected letters. The length of the words are chosen by the game type you select.

Short

Create three- and four-letter words to win.

Medium

Create three-, four-, and five-letter words to win.

Long

Create three-, four-, five-, and six-letter words to win.

SPELLING A WORD

Use the stylus to drag the letter tiles into the letter holders as shown below. Tap OK once you have spelled a word. If it is a valid word, it will appear in one of the blank fields on the opposite

screen.

Arrow Buttons

To scroll through the word list on the opposite page, tap in the upper-right corner of the puzzle screen in the direction you wish to scroll the list.

Align/Shuffle Button

Use Align Shuffle to rearrange the letter tiles in different orders.

Give Up Button

Once you have located over half of the required words,

Give up will appear in the Pause menu. Once this button

is pressed, the remaining newfound words will be filled in.

Since you chose Give Up, you will not get credit for completing the puzzle.

OPTIONS

Delete Profile

Allows you to delete your profile. Once deleted, all progress and saved data will be lost.

Rename Profile

Allows you to rename the currently selected profile.

Set Orientation

Allows you to change the screen orientation for left- or right-handed writing.

Credits

Allows you to view the credits.

CREDITS

GAME DEVELOPED BY

Nuevo Retro Games

Producer:

Shigeki Yamashiro

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

Executive Producer:

Satoru Iwata

Nuevo Retro Games

Design and Programming:

Paul Hellier

Additional Text Writing:

Osamu Shibamiya

Inbound Games

Producer:

Masao Yamamoto

Project Manager:

Catherine Volkoff

Nintendo

of America, Inc.

Project Coordinator:

Project Coordinator:

Kiyohiko Ando

Art Lead:

Marcel Kralik

Outsider Development

Todd Buechele

Business Development:

Mike Fukuda

Tom Prata

Nintendo Software

Technology

Corporation

Game Director:

Yukimi Shimura

Design Department:

Ross Hirai

Mia Brooks

David Pauls

Art Director:

Kunitake Aoki

Product Testing

Coordinator:

Audio Adviser:

Lawrence Schwedler

Ed Ridgeway

Production Associate:

Mika Kurosawa

Product Testing

Text Editing:

Teresa Lillygren

All rights, including the copyrights of Game, Scenario, Music and Program, reserved by Nintendo.

NOTES

NOTES

NOTES

WARRANTY & SERVICE INFORMATION

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HARDWARE WARRANTY

Nintendo of America Inc. ("Nintendo") warrants to the original purchaser that the hardware product shall be free from defects in material and workmanship for twelve (12) months from the date of purchase. If a defect covered by this warranty occurs during this warranty period, Nintendo will repair or replace the defective hardware product or component, free of charge. The original purchaser is entitled to this warranty only if the date of purchase is registered at point of sale or the consumer can demonstrate, to Nintendo's satisfaction, that the product was purchased within the last 12 months.

GAME & ACCESSORY WARRANTY

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SERVICE AFTER EXPIRATION OF WARRANTY

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Nintendo's address is: Nintendo of America Inc., P.O. Box 957, Redmond, WA 98073-0957 U.S.A.

This warranty is only valid in the United States and Canada.

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©2008 Nintendo. TM, © and the Nintendo DS logo are trademarks of Nintendo. ©2008 Nintendo. This product employs Decuma® Handwriting Recognition Engine from ZI corporation. Decuma® is a registered trademark of ZI corporation.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

COMMENCER 34

CRÉER UN PROFIL 36

CHOISIR UN JEU 37

COMMANDES 38

MOTS CROISÉS 40

MOTS CACHÉS 47

ANAGRAMMES 50

OPTIONS 52

GÉNÉRIQUE 53

COMMENCER

Bouton alignment/mélange

Outsider Development

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