Lexulous Puzzles is a solitaire version of the game.

We are currently testing out this feature and it is in BETA mode.

If you have any suggestions or comments please reply on this topic.

@Lily-Ell Talking about fake profiles ... are you a raccoon who plays Lexulous?

@NOthing It's two weeks right now. We are offering additional time controls in our new website very soon.

@NOthing Some forums / topics could be admin only where voting is not allowed.

@Jan-Fenn Moved your question to the appropriate topic, see first message for answer

@Tracy-R Super, we'll have that incorporated soon.

It should show up every time after you play the puzzle. The next time this doesn’t happen please share the puzzle number and we will review.

Object of the Game

Players must use letter tiles to make words with on the board. The player with the highest score once all 89 tiles are exhausted, wins the game! All words are permitted with the exception of the following: words that are always capitalised, prefixes and suffixes alone, abbreviations, and words requiring an apostrophe / hyphen.

Game Play

• The player who goes first is randomly chosen. They must use at least 2 or more tiles from their rack to form a word on the board. Any one tile must fall on the centre square. Diagonal words are not allowed.

• Once you've played a word, your rack will be replenished with new tiles, up to a maximum of 8 tiles, and turn passes to your opponent. Remember, the entire pool consists of 89 tiles.

• Players may form new words on the board in the following ways:

- Placing a complete word parallel to a word already played so that adjacent letters also form complete words.

- Adding one or more letters to a word or letters already on the board.

- Placing a word at right angles to a word already on the board. The new word must use one of the letters already on the board or must add a letter to it.

- Blanks: The two blank tiles may be used as any letters. When playing a blank, you must choose which letter it represents. It remains that letter for the rest of the game.

• You may use a turn to exchange all, some, or none of the letters. To do this, click on the SWAP button. This ends your turn.

• The game ends when all letters have been drawn and one player uses his or her last letter; or when all possible plays have been made; or when players pass their turn 3 times in succession.

Scoring

• Lexulous keeps score automatically. The score value of each letter is indicated by a number at the bottom of the tile. The score value of a blank is zero. Before you submit a word, you can see the total score for it.

• The score for each turn is the sum of the letter values in each word formed or modified on that turn, in addition to points obtained from placing letters on Special squares (as described below).

• Special letter squares: A light blue square doubles the score of a letter placed on it; a dark blue square triples the letter score.

• Special word squares: The score for an entire word is doubled when one of its letters is placed on a pink square, and tripled, when one of its letters is placed on a red square. Include premiums for double or triple letter values, if any, before doubling or tripling the word score. If a word is formed that covers two premium word squares, the score is doubled and then re-doubled, or tripled and then re-tripled. The centre square doubles the score for the first word.

• Letter and word premiums count only on the turn in which they are played.

• When a blank tile is played on a pink or red square, the value of the word is doubled or tripled, even though the blank itself has no score value.

• When two or more words are formed in the same play, each is scored. The common letter is counted (with full premium value, if any) for each word.

• BINGO! If you play seven tiles on a turn, it's a Bingo. You score a premium of 40 points over and above the normal word score total. If you use all your 8 tiles, you get a 50 point bonus!

• Unplayed Letters: When the game ends, each player's score is reduced by the sum of their unplayed letters. In addition, if a player has used all of their letters, the sum of the other players' unplayed letters is added to that player's score.

• The player with the highest final score wins the game. In case of a tie, the player with the highest score before adding or deducting unplayed letters wins.

Watch & Learn

The best way to quickly get the hang of scoring is to watch a live game in progress! Simply click on Play Live and you'll see many games in play.

@Carolyn-Leverich-Atkinson https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/primi

@Lisken-Van-Pelt-Dus Nice thoughts.

• The AI is an indicative score. We will be providing bonus points if the AI's score is beaten by the player.
• Rating system will be improved.

@Chloe-Ross Glad to have you on the game! Look forward to seeing you host games in FR and EN.

@Linda-Nicholson Please note that browsers are slowly removing access to Adobe Flash. The old game rooms cannot function without this. We have created new game rooms and would love your feedback on them.

@Elaine-Jones Do you still get this problem? Perhaps it is related to some advertisement that is on the screen. Can you check that?

@BettyL @callmeishmael Sorry for responding late on this thread. Are you all still facing any trouble? Please share your LEX ID via email to admin@lexulous.com

@maple Are you still facing this issue? Request you to once again send the game ID to admin@lexulous.com, we shall investigate the 9 digit / 8 digit game ID in detail

@maple in case you are still getting games from people you have blocked, please share the game ID via email to admin@lexulous.com

@Grace-Zyla Sorry we seem to have missed your message. You may see the following link for download options: https://forum.lexulous.com/topic/3/download-the-app

@Angela-Goedicke Please see the first post in this thread on how to obtain your numeric ID. When you host a game request, you may set the rating range and get players who match the criteria.

Before a player joins a "hosted game", they are shown all information including the opponent's game completion rate, dictionary setting, expected rating change and opponent information. Hence joining a game and deleting it immediately is unfair to the opponent (they need to place another request for no fault of theirs).

A player's GCR reduces each time they delete a game that they have joined from a hosted table. If the GCR falls below a specific level, the player is prevented from joining additional hosted games. The player can continue to post requests or play with friends.

How to maintain a healthy GCR?

Make sure you try to finish every game you have started playing and do not delete games without a proper reason.

How to improve your GCR?

You need to complete more games (either with friends or via hosted game requests of your own) and your GCR will keep rising.

@Deborah-Risteen-Mercer Thank you for informing us about this. We had connected with the advertising network and they have resolved the problem a few days ago.