¢WORDWIZE¢By Simon Roe¢¢¢ The inspiration for this program came from everybody's favourite (!) game 'Hangman'. WordWize is a non-violent version in which you don't get to hang the man!¢¢ During loading, you will have to wait for a short time whilst the program reads through the word dictionary to store the location of records in the file.¢¢ When you start a game you are given three lives. For each life you are allowed to enter nine incorrect (non-existent) letters before you lose a life. Of course, when you have lost all of your lives the game is over.¢¢ On the second line of the screen, you will see a message line. Here the program will inform you as to what is happenning. On the next seven lines there are three boxes.¢¢ The first box (on the left hand side) is the 'Letter Box'. This displays all of the letters that haven't been used in normal characters, and letters that have been used in lowercase inverse characters.¢¢ The centre box shows the top five high scores. These scores can be saved, printed and loaded at any stage in the game.¢¢ The last box (on the right-hand side of the screen) displays the 'Bonus Status'. Here you will notice five blank boxes. Every time you get a word right you are awarded a bonus point, until you reach five, then you are given a bonus score of between 1 and 30. If you lose a life, then the bonus points are reduced to zero.¢¢ The next line on the screen shows the word that you have to guess. Any characters that are yet to be found are shown by an underscore character. Any characters that you guess correctly are filled in here.¢¢ The next line on the screen displays your score, the number of lives you have left, the number of goes remaining and finally the length of the word.¢¢ The next six lines are used by the program to display various prompts.¢¢¢Scoring:¢¢ Each time you reveal a letter in the word, you are awarded one point which is added to your score. When you have revealed all the letters in the word then the length of the word is added to your score, i.e. 9 characters = 9 points.¢¢¢Other features:¢¢ Pressing the ESCape key when asked to enter a letter will bring up the menu below:¢¢ Q-Quit ESC-Return to game¢ Load, Save or Print high scores¢¢ Pressing the ESCape key again will return to the game.¢¢ Pressing the 'Q' key will quit the program.¢¢ Pressing the 'L' key will load the high score data from disk. (WORDWIZE.HI)¢¢ Pressing the 'S' key will save the current high score data onto disk.¢¢ Pressing the 'P' key will print the high scores on a printer if one is attached.¢¢¢-----¢¢¢ The WordWize editor programs for creating your own words are available on NOSAUG PD Disk G19 (Simon Roe's Turbo BASIC Games).¢
