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- Welcome to OhMyWord!
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- Press F2 or select File, New Game to begin playing.
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- Your aim in this game is to guess a secret word that the computer has
- selected. The word will be 5 letters long.
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- Each time you make a guess, the computer will tell you how many letters
- in your word are in the secret word. With a little logic and a
- well-stocked vocabulary, you should be able to figure out the letters in
- the secret word and then guess the word itself.
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- There are a lot of boxes on the screen. Let's take a look at how each
- of them works.
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- You'll spend most of your time in the 'Guess' box, entering the words
- you want to guess. Simply type a 5-letter word and press Enter.
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- If you want to stop the game or if you give up, Click on the Exit
- button. If you'd like to try another secret word Click on 'New Word'.
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- If you want to move to another box, press the TAB key.
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- You will also use the 'Known Letters' box fairly often. Whenever you
- think you know a letter in the secret word, move here and type in the
- letter. The letters here will be shown in a special color in other
- boxes on the screen.
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- The computer keeps track of your score in the 'Score' box. You
- can't move to this box nor directly change the information in it.
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- When you are in the 'Known Letter' box, you can press ENTER to go back
- to the 'Guess' box. If you press TAB, you will move to a new box
- or command button.
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- You will use the 'Possible Letters' box to cross off letters that you
- are sure are NOT in the secret word. Once you move to this box, simply
- type the letters that you want to cross off. If you make a mistake,
- type the letter again, and it will turn back to a possible letter.
- When you are ready to leave the 'Possible Letters' box, press RETURN or
- ENTER to go back to the 'Your Guess' box, or TAB to move on to the next
- box.
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- If you guess a word which has no letters in common with the secret word,
- OhMyWord will cross off all the letters in the word you guessed. These
- are good clues, don't ignore them.
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- Use the 'Untried Letters' box to see which letters you haven't yet
- used in a word. The computer keeps this box up to date for you. It
- will always show you what letters you haven't yet tried.
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- The large box on the side is used to record your guesses.
- It will show you what words you have guessed, how many letters
- in each word are also in the secret word, which letters have
- been crossed off in each word, and which letters you know for
- sure are included in each word.
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- The information in this box is your key to figuring out the secret word.
- Study it carefully while you are playing! The numbers in the box
- show you how many points you will earn when you guess the secret word.
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- If you want want to make notes to yourself, or try spelling a word
- different ways, move to the 'Scratch" box. You can cut and paste your guesses
- using Ctrl+Ins and Shift+Ins
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- The computer has a large list of 5-letter words that it can choose from.
- Every time you make a guess, it looks to see if your word is in its
- list. If you use a word the computer doesn't know, it will stop the
- game and ask you if it can add the word to its list. If you say yes, it
- will accept your guess. If you say no, it will assume you made a typing
- error and erase your guess for you. Remember, the words you add to the
- list may show up as secret words some day, so don't add words like
- VWXYZ.
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- One warning. The computer does not know very many plurals (words
- that end with an 's'). If you want you use plurals as guesses,
- the computer will probably ask you if each one is a genuine word.
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- You can select the 'Edit Words' button to see a list of the words
- the computer knows and to edit or delete words from the list.
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- I developed OhMyWord as a means of learning the Visual Basic development
- environment. It was tough and I wouldn't win any programming awards,
- but what you see is what you get. This software is provided "as is". I
- cannot warrant its use on your machine. If you like it, I'd appreciate a
- $15 dollar gift (I've spent well over 100 hours developing this game).
- If I update the game (and I do have ideas), I'll send you the new
- version. If you'd like the Visual Basic source code, send along $25.
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- Greg Martin
- 7014 Grove Rd
- Alexandria, VA 22306
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- Martin@hq.af.mil
- March 1993
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