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Quick Start Tutorial for using and playing
the Excel TGI Golf Game
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Excel TGI Golf Game
• This game can be used in a group situation
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to review a program that has just been
presented
OR
It can be used by a single user to review
previously covered material.
OR
It can be used by a single user to cover new,
or pre-work materials.
– Playing through the game several times to improve your
golf score will also teach a user new material.
• Anyway you choose to used a TGI Game - it is fun
and educational.
Excel TGI Golf Game
• The golf game consists of a 9-hole golf
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course and a Clubhouse (scorecard).
Each hole looks different but in general,
plays the same way.
You can play the rules of Golf, allowing the
player furthest from the hole to hit (be
delivered the next question).
Answering questions correctly results in a
better shot and eventually a lower score on
each hole.
Watch out though, a wrong answer can land
you Out of Bounds and cost you valuable
strokes!
The Setup screen
This button will
send you to the
Clubhouse.
This where you
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I will
need
to go
to push this button
A drop list
andthe
gogame.
to the Clubhouse.
start
allows you set
set the time
you have
alloted to play.
This button will let you import a
group of questions from a separate
file. Here you can import prepackaged question sets from TGI or
create your own question files using
the TGI Questions.xls file that
comes with each game
(recommended).
The Question buttons
will take you to the
sheets where the
questions are stored that
the game uses. One
sheet for each level of
questions. You can add
and edit questions here
but we recommend you
do this using the TGI
Questions.xls
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The Clubhouse (Scorecard)
And this button displays a
popup box with the rules on
it. Suitable for describing
the game to the participants.
Press this button to erase the
scores and reset the clock to
the time set on the Setup
screen.
This button takes you back
to the
Setup screen.
The gold button will
erase
the scores only - it will not
reset the clock or reset the
questions to start over again.
A great way to have tiebreaker or finish the
questions.
Clicking on one of the Holes
on the scorecard will take
you to that hole. I will do
that now.
The Course
As you play, your progress is shown here.
If both teams finish a hole - you are
automatically taken back to the Scorecard
to choose another hole to play.
for the
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of them - you can still hit
return to the
out of it.
All holes are different but the
Press this button to return to
object is to get the ball in the hole.
The following affect your shot: the Clubhouse (Scorecard).
1.) The club you select.
2.) A little luck.
Pressing either the Yellow or
3.) … and most importantly, if
Red button will start the shot
you answer the question
process for a player or team.
CORRECTLY!
The Pop-ups
When the ball goes in
the hole - this screen
appears to tell you how
you did. The graphics
change depending upon
how many shots it took
The first popup is to select the club to use.
to finish the hole.
An Auto Club Select button has been
added for the non-golfers.
That’s it! It’s fun, easy
If you select
a really
wrong
club forClick
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next popup
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• Click the mouse to go through the popups.
• You are now ready to hit the links.
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