How
to Enter
Solve
our ColorCross Contest Puzzle!
- Unscramble
letters in pink squares to find the Celebrity Scramblr
and type your answer into the answer box.
- Submit
your entry to us via the submit button. If your submission
is correct fill out the entry form or try again.
- Only
one contest entry per week per name and address.
- Check
the Winners Circle often to see if your name appears
as a winner. Winning entries are drawn weekly at random.
- If
your name appears in the Winners Circle, contact us
via e-mail to claim your prize. Prizes are gift certificates
which can be redeemed for merchandise in the puzzlebuffs.com
store. Gift certificates are sent to winners via email.
Instructions
for solving the interactive ColorCross crossword on
the screen.
YELLOW
squares contain vowels - sometimes including Y. Other
letters are in the BLUE squares. The PINK squares can
represent any letter. CELEBRITY SCRAMBLER... Unscramble
the letters in the PINK squares to spell the name of
a star of stage, screen or television.
Puzzle
grid movement
Using
the keyboard:
- The
Arrow keys are the primary movement keys for moving
through adjacent cells. Word direction (Across or Down)
is switched automatically based on the direction of
motion.
- Tab
and Shift-Tab keys move one word at a time forward
and backward respectively in the current direction.
Enter/Return key moves to the next word in the current
direction.
Using
the mouse:
- Click
and drag in the Across or Down direction (at least
one cell over in that direction) to select a word for
entry in the corresponding direction. Clicking on a
single cell without dragging will use the current direction.
You can use right mouse button (when available) or
Shift/Ctrl keys in conjunction with any mouse button
to switch directions. Click on any clue in the clue
list to select the corresponding word.
Clue
list scrolling
Click
on the arrow keys next to the clue lists for quickly
scrolling a clue-list a "page" at a time. Click
on any clue on the clue list and drag up or down with
the mouse for smaller amounts of scrolling.
Solution
checking and revealing
Clicking
on Check (icon at the bottom left corner) will check
all letters and mark the incorrect ones only. Subsequent
re-editing of cells marked as incorrect will have a black
mark in the top right corner to remind you that it was
checked earlier. Clicking on Reveal (icon at the bottom
left corner) will reveal the complete solution and mark
the incorrect ones or unfilled squares with a red mark
in the top right corner.
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