User Guide



Welcome to AZClear ! 

A game of Strategy, Reasoning, Memory, Patience and Luck !



The objective of the game is to clear all boxes of the board that contains a char. 

The board boxes are filled randomly with chars from A to Z according to the selected level. 
You have a short time to win.

You need 1 point to click on the game board or control buttons. 

For each cleared box on the board you get 1 point, but each wrong click made you lose 1 point.

And each click on move or method buttons you lose 1 point, so be careful with this. 

If you clear all boxes of the board you win. 


If you get 0 points or your time runs out you lose. 




Click [ New ] button to reset the game and select the mode and level to play.

On level A the boxes are filled with only A chars, on level B the boxes are filled with A or B chars, on level C the boxes are filled with A, B or C chars, and so on until Z level with all chars from A to Z.  

The modes are: Easy, Medium Hard and Puzzle.   



The first 3 sets the time of the game. The Puzzle mode are 26 fixed boards to solve with correct methods and A..Z sets the board to load.

To start a new game, click on the desired Mode and then on a char from A to Z.

Chars can be cleared if around it exists others in sequential order or with equal value.  

Example:

Only A, B, C and D chars can be cleared with one click. Doing this is a called 'AZClear'.

To make an 'AZClear', select one method to test the chars around of the box to be clicked. 

Each method has a rule to analyze the boxes around of the char that will be clicked. 
Select the correct method to clear the chars is sequential order or with the same value.

When you click on a box, all chars around it are analyzed according to the selected method and if they satisfy the method rule will checked. 

Then for each of these marked boxes the process is repeated and at the end all marked boxes are cleared and you will get 1 point for each one. 

If no char around the clicked box matches the selected method, this will be an error and you will lose 1 point. 

The methods are:

EQUAL:
Clear matching chars around the clicked box. 
( Clicking on any A )



Look that are many others boxes on the game board with the same value around it, but it is a basic tutorial of this method and the others.

NEXT:
Clear around chars in ascending order.
( Clicking on B )



PRIOR:
Clear around chars in descending order.
( Clicking on E )



SIDE:
Clear matching chars on the sides.
( Clicking on F )



ANGLE:
Clear matching chars on the angles.
( Clicking on Js )




WEST:
Clear chars in ascending order to the west and equals at same column.
( Clicking on any  N, O or P )



NORTH:
Clear chars in ascending order to the north and equals at same line.
( Clicking on any Q, R or S )



SOUTH:
Clear chars in ascending order to the south and equals at same line.
( Clicking on any T, U or V )



EAST:
Clear chars in ascending order to the east and equals at same column.
( Clicking on any L, M or N )



MIX:
Clear sides in ascending order and diagonals in order descendant.
( Clicking on W )



( When you clear all boxes on the board you win ! )





 

You can add a new random char by clicking on a empty box, but it will cost 1 point.
( Clicking on an empty box )





To group all chars you can click on the move buttons, but it will cost 1 point too.

LEFT:
Moves all chars to the left of the board.



UP:
Moves all chars to the top of the board.



DOWN:
Moves all chars to the bottom of the board.



RIGHT:
Moves all chars to the right of the board.




And finally, you can use the Rand button, but it will cost 1 point.

RAND:
Randomly rearrange all the chars on the board and add a new char. 

One new E was inserted. The new char always is between A and the game level, in this example the level is Z, so the new char could be any char from A to Z.


Control buttons:

SAVE: 
Saves the current game until you exit the app. This don't spend points.

LOAD:
Loads the game that was saved in the current session.  This don't spend points.






UNDO:
Undo up to 10 previous moves. This don't spend points.





WARNING:  
During the game the formation of words or symbols may occur by random drawing of chars.
If this happen it will be only by a chance and should be ignored by the player.    

The game does not have any mechanism to prevent that from occurring because it is a board box game with chars and not a text area game or any type of game that uses or creates words