NameNuts is the exciting new word game that can now be played online — with anyone, from anywhere, even in multiple languages!

Players can either create and publish their own NameNuts games, or join games published by other users. (2-7 players can join in a single game.)

REGISTERING:

Register screen:

When registering:

• Select "Login automatically" to avoid having to login with name and password and choose a Game Room – every time you start the app. (Note: You can change your Game Room anytime once you are logged in.)
• Select your default search engine (used when you select Web access during game play).
• "Sign In – Existing Account" allows you to login to your existing NameNuts™ account on your current device. Your Past Players ("Friends") list plus all your Coins, Points, Stars and Achievement Status will carry over. [In a new installation, Saved Games and saved custom Subjects will always be blank. That's because they're considered app "assets," as opposed to user assets. Note: Everyone playing on a given device sees – and may edit – the same app assets, including Saved Games and custom Subjects.]
• You can change any of these options later, in your Settings screen.

TECHNICALIA – Staying In The Game: How to Handle Connection Problems

Every NameNuts™ game requires highly synchronized interconnections between the players and our servers. A solid Internet connection is essential. Therefore, please make sure your Internet connection is steady and reliable whenever you play this game.

But even in the best of circumstances – sometimes your device will lose its Internet connection, however momentarily. It's unavoidable. (This actually happens more often than most people know.) NameNuts™ will try valiantly to keep you "in the game," but that's not always possible. Sometimes, the app may get "stuck" searching for connections that are hidden, or dead. It may even start misbehaving, acting strangely (because it has "lost" the network). Timed and synchronized game events are especially sensitive to these kinds of problems.

If any of this happens to you, there's always one best solution: remove the app from (RAM) memory and restart your device. That resets the app and gets you back playing ASAP.  Note: this will work in any operating system.

In Android systems, minimize use of device's Back button:

• In general, it's safest to use the navigation buttons provided within the NameNuts™ app, rather than the Back button available in Android devices. Use that button only if you must.

GAME PLAY – Answers Input:

Image A – Answers Input screen:

The game selects a (different) random First Letter (see Image A above) for each round, and each player is tasked with entering answers – into the Answers Input box – for each Subject in the game. Each answer must begin with the designated First Letter randomly selected by the system (which players can vote to change). An "answer" is typically an example of the given Subject. E.g.: "John" is an answer to the Subject "First Name" if the First Letter is "J." "Australia" works as an answer for "countries that begin with A." And so on.

End of Answers Input:

• The player who finishes (entering answers) first taps the DONE button. That action moves all game Timers to 20 seconds and starts the Final Countdown, which goes from there (to zero).
• If no one taps DONE, Final Countdown begins when the game Timer hits 30 seconds.
• Any player can EXTEND HIS/HER TIME to enter answers in a round by tapping 'MORE TIME' at any point during Final Countdown. The red MORE TIME button (Image B below) appears whenever Final Countdown begins. (To extend time, a player must have at least 5 coins on hand.)

Image B – Answers Input screen – Final Countdown:

Time extensions are limited to 2 taps of the MORE TIME button per round. (Each tap adds 15 seconds to the current round's Timer. See the Complete Player Manual for details.)

The correctness of each answer is determined by the players of the game through a system of challenges and voting, beginning with Answers Review (Image C, below), which comes immediately after Answers Input.

Image C – Answers Review screen:

SCORING – "Answers Review" & "Vote On Challenges:"

In Answers Review (Image C above), each player reviews every other player's answers – Challenging the ones that seem incorrect. Challenges are resolved in Vote On Challenges (Image D below), by the voting of all the players in the game. Use the Compromise button to settle honest differences of opinion or gray areas that sometimes arise.

Image D – Vote On Challenges screen:

Each correct answer = 10 game points; answers accepted by "Compromise" = 5 points each.

WEB ACCESS: Web access (Images A, D) is provided during key phases of the game. Note: a player who overuses the Web to search for answers in Answers Input pays a price in time wasted, and can lose rounds as a result. Do NOT try to access the Web in any way other than the Web buttons provided; doing so can easily throw your app out of sync with the game, which could in turn lead to your being forced to sit out the current round.

COINS: Coins can be purchased at any time by tapping a Coin Icon (Images A, C, D). They're also earned by doing well in games. Coins can be used at the end of any round to get extra time to enter answers (just when you need it most!) – and also to get special add-ons (as available). See Coins section in the Complete Player Manual for more info.

REMOVING APP LIMITATIONS: The NameNuts™ app, as downloaded, provides 7 completely free whole games. To continue playing (forever!) after seven games, the only thing you need to do is purchase any number of coins. The minimum purchase is just $0.99 — and now there's also a SPECIAL BONUS of EXTRA COINS for first-time purchasers! (Image E below.)

Image E – Coins screen:

ACHIEVEMENT STATUS: Your lifetime achievement as a NameNuts™ player is reflected in your Achievement Status score, which is found in your Profile screen. The longer you play – and the more games and Stars you win – the higher your Achievement Status will be, as your position in the NameNuts™ Leaderboard (published at www.namenuts.com) also rises. See details in the Profile screen section of the Complete Player Manual.

And there's A LOT MORE fun and excitement in this game!

• CHAT is available throughout game play. Go ahead – make friends anywhere in the world!
• DIRECT-JOIN INVITATIONS are available, even from one Game Room to another.
• You can CREATE YOUR OWN SUBJECTS (Image F below) — in any supported language — and then publish an unlimited number of games containing those custom Subjects. Users who publish games can also label them with any of the (approximately) 36 Language labels NameNuts™ provides. (There is also an "Other" Language label, for any we might have missed.)
  

  Image F – Create New Game – Choose Subjects:

  
  
  
• Your CUSTOM SUBJECTS can include references to native culture, facts and information that only people from your part of the world would know. That's part of what makes NameNuts™ unique – every individual can make it his or her own.
• A LEADERBOARD will be published at the www.NameNuts.com website.
• And there's much, much more!

**Start playing right now, and explore away!**

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