5. ARRANGE FUTURE GAME

Arranging to play a future game

As well as providing instant action, Wireplay allows you to arrange games up to a year in advance. To find and challenge for one of these future games:

  1. Connect to Wireplay and wait for the NOTICEBOARD to appear.

  2. On the 'Search set-up' panel, click on the 'Edit Search' button.

  3. Click on the arrow next to 'Time'.

  4. On the 'Select a time' panel that appears

    5. Either click on the 'Today' button for games due to start sometime today

    Or click on the 'Between the following' button and use the four sets of Left and Right arrows to set the dates on which you want to play.

  5. To confirm your choice, click on the 'OK' button. Or, if you want to forget the whole thing, click on the 'Cancel' button.

  6. Click on the 'Do Search' button, and the NOTICEBOARD will display all available game proposals for the times you specified. Look down the list of game proposals until you find one with an available place indicated in the 'Slots free' column. To view more proposals, click on the Down arrow.

  7. Check the 'Skill level' column for your preferred degree of difficulty.

  8. If everything looks good, note the name of the Game Proposer and click on the game title. Then click on the 'Locker Room' button to enter the LOCKER ROOM.

  9. In the LOCKER ROOM, you'll see your nickname on the right-hand list, with in the 'Status' column to indicate that you're 'in' the Room.

  10. Click on the 'Challenge' button. 'Challenger' will appear next to your name in the 'Offer Status' column.

  11. In the unlikely event that the Game Proposer is in the Locker Room at the time of your challenge (indicated by ), you might have your offer accepted straight away. Watch the 'Offer Status' column and be ready for greetings or questions in the large CHAT BOX window.

  12. If you get a message, reply by clicking in the small CHAT BOX window, typing in your response and pressing 'Return' on your keyboard. You'll see your response appear alongside your nickname, below the message you're responding to.

  13. The proposer may be off line but may have left a message for prospective challengers in the locker room. If you want to leave a message for the proposer to see when they next log on you can do so by typing it in the small chat box window, pressing 'Return' and leaving the locker room.

  14. Click on the 'Back' button and come back to the Locker Room nearer the proposed playing time to check whether your offer has been accepted. (The 'Challenges accepted' indicator at the top left-hand corner of the screen will also show when any of your current challenges are accepted.)

  15. If you want to withdraw your challenge, click on the 'Withdraw' button on the left hand side of the screen.

    16. (Note: you can challenge for different games scheduled to begin at the same time, but as soon as one of these challenges is accepted, you should withdraw all the others.)

    For a quick overview of all the games you have challenged for, click on the 'My diary' button on the NOTICEBOARD.