Dr. Banana's Word Search Manual
Dr. Banana's Word Search is a word search game for the Hiptop (aka Sidekick) from Danger, Inc.
It comes with 30 puzzles of different sizes and difficulty levels. You can find Dr. Banana's FAQs lying around here somewhere too.
Making His List, Checking It Twice
Dr. Banana starts up with a list of puzzles. The list includes the puzzle name, the difficulty level (Easy/Med/Hard), the puzzle size (S, M, L, XL), and how much progress you've made on the puzzle.
The difficulty level determines how much information is shown in the puzzle's Word List:
- Hard: only the first letter of each word is shown.
- Med: each word's first letter, punctuation, and length are shown.
- Easy: every letter for every word is shown.
You can bring up a puzzle's word list at any time using "Menu-L" or the space bar. Either will toggle the word list on and off.
The difficulty level can be decreased at the puzzle's "Puzzle Info" screen. You can change the difficulty at any time. So if you'd like a little more of a challenge, try starting each puzzle on Hard!
The Seven Faces of Dr. Banana
Once you've selected a puzzle from the list, you can move around within the list to select words. To do so requires progressing through a few modes:
Move Mode |
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| Looks Like | Action | Does this |
 | Arrows | up/down/left/right |
| Wheel | up/down | |
| Menu+Wheel | left/right | |
| Wheel-click or Enter | select letter, go to Rotate Mode | |
| Back | choose a new puzzle | |
Rotate Mode |
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| Looks Like | Action | Does this |
 | Arrows | rotate/select direction |
| Wheel | rotate | |
| Menu+Wheel | rotate | |
| Wheel-click or Enter | select direction, go to Extend Mode | |
| Back | back to Move Mode | |
Extend Mode |
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| Looks Like | Action | Does this |
 | Arrows | extend/retract |
| Wheel | extend/retract | |
| Menu+Wheel | extend/retract | |
| Wheel-click or Enter | select word | |
| Back | back to Move Mode | |
Correct Word |
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| Looks Like | Result | Now what? |
 | Word is correct! | Continue on in Move Mode. |
Incorrect Word |
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| Looks Like | Result | Now what? | Tip |
 | Word is incorrect! | You're still in Extend Mode, so you can immediately extend/retract in order to try a different word. | Check to see if your selection is actually part of a longer word..... |
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