Crossing The Lexicon

Crossing the Lexicon is a word puzzle from VIERTE Development, an Australian studio, played in the browser at play-lexicon.com and in an Android app. Its daily boards are numbered by the days since 1 February 2025, so the board on 19 October 2026 is Daily #625.

Each board is a grid with a few gold laurel squares, sometimes a few stone squares that cannot hold a tile, and a rack of letters below. You tap a square and type, or tap tiles from the rack, to lay words across or down. Every run of letters has to be a real word and every tile has to touch the rest, and the job is done when one connected web of words joins all the laurels. Valid words turn gold as soon as they are complete.

The score is the number of tiles you used. Each board has a par: finish at par for three stars and beat it to take the crown. There is nearly always more than one route, so the first answer you find is rarely the shortest. A hint lays down a word that works, which gets you to the end but not by the best route.

The daily board is the same for everyone, gets harder through the week and keeps a streak. In October 2026 the game was rebuilt: alongside the daily there is now a run of levels that grow from a few seconds to bigger boards with stone squares (500 on the website, 300 in the Android app), and 584 boards of the original daily game, from February 2025 to early October 2026, live on under Classic.

It suits players who like laying tiles in Scrabble but would rather chase a tight target than an opponent's score.