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LEXICON
Welcome to Lexicon, the word
game that tests your vocabulary!
There are three sub-games in
Lexicon:
Shuffle
Slide tiles around to make words.
Each move counts against the
clock.
Shuffle-Clocked
Beat the Clock! Moving doesn't
count against you.
Crash
Swap tiles and try to clear the
board!
Bonus for clearing the board
completely.
The Board:
Lexicon has an 8X8 tile playing
board. Touch and drag letter
tiles to spell words.
Below the tiles are
the clock,
the Discard Box,
the Score,
the current Bonus Word and
the Best Word.
At the bottom are the buttons:
Quit, New, Pause and Mute.
Game Play:
The game starts with the board
full of tiles.
In Shuffle, the tiles automatically
slide under the stylus as you drag.
Lift the stylus to drop a tile at the
desired location.
In Crash, touch and drag a tile the
same way. When you drop it, it
swaps places with the tile at that
location.
When you spell words, they will
flash and disappear, showing their
score.
Got a letter you can't use?
Just drag it to the discard box.
You get another for free.
But don't do it too often!
You only get three chances.
Keep playing until you get stuck,
or until you win the level.
Quit stops the game and gives
your score. In crash, letters left on
the board count against your
score!
Touch Quit again to return to the
main menu.
New abandons the game and
starts a new game at level 1.
Pause stops the clock. Touch it
again to continue.
Mute turns off sound. Touch it
again to get sounds back.
Scoring:
Valid words can be left-to-right or
top- to-bottom, but not diagonal.
No plurals, past tenses or other
inflections allowed.
So lovely is ok, but not lovelies,
lovelier or loveliest.
No proper names allowed.
Longer words count:
Letters Score
4 100
5 200
6 300
7 400
8 500
Bonus letters are colored, and
multiply the word value. Use
several bonus letters in one word
for super scores!
Example:
Word bonus starts at 1X and goes
up like this:
A
B
C
D
E
F +1
G
H +1
I
J +2
K +1
L
M
N
O
P
Q +3
R
S
T
U
V +1
W +1
X +2
Y +1
Z +3
Word: W A V Y
Bonus = 1 +1 +1+1 = 4
WAVY = 100 X 4 = 400!
Make more than one word in
a single swap, and get a
multi-word bonus.
For example:
MCOXANOR
Swap the M and X making
XCOMANOR
which is COMA + MANOR.
COMA = 100
MANOR = 200 + 100!
If other words are made vertically
at the same time, the score adds
up fast!
Words within words don't count.
So cowboy is just one word, not
three.
If you spell the Bonus Word, it
counts 10X its normal score!
Then a new bonus word is
chosen.
Your best-scoring word of the
game is shown under "Best Word".
Configuration:
Skin
Lexicon can load skins, and can
use different dictionaries.
You can even make your own
skins!
Skins change the appearance of
the board, tiles and scores.
Sounds can be changed.
The bonus word list is
configurable.
Also background images can be
switched each time you win a
level.
Visit our web site from time to
time to check out what new skins
are available or to download the
skin tool.
Dictionary
Lexicon comes with a 21,000 word
dictionary of American English.
Larger dictionaries can be loaded,
or even dictionaries for other
languages! Check out our web site
and see if we can meet your
need.
Acknowledgments:
Thanks to the 12dictsproject:
biljir@pobox.com
http:// personal.riverusers.com/
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