Lexapics Print & Play Mode — Reveal the Theme With Words. the Most Innovative Fast-paced Game!

Be the first to find the hidden theme and shout it!

✨ What is Lexapics Game Mode?

Lexapics is an artistic puzzle experience where players uncover a hidden image by solving word-search puzzles. It blends observation, creativity, and deduction into a unique game format. You can find the full classic LexaPics instructable here.

The Print & Play Game Mode offers a more dynamic and social version of the game:

1. One person is the Announcer
2. Others are the Players
3. The image is revealed word by word, tile-by-tile as the announced words are found (words are the pixels to reveal an image!)

The print & play version of LexaPics is designed for 3 or more participants and works perfectly in classrooms, family settings, or group events.

It is a fast-paced, word-search puzzle game that reveals a hidden image as you play. Each tile in the grid corresponds to a part of the final picture (a word-search puzzle) and each word you find completes the tile and provides you more visual clues about the final image — turning word-solving into a slow-burn artistic discovery.

Players/Roles:

1. 📣 Announcer (Facilitator / Coordinator)
2. Guides the game and announces one word and its tile at a time
3. Uses the provided tile-by-word list and theme preview
4. Ensures fair play (e.g., no premature shading)
5. Can follow a preset list or choose the word order manually
6. Keeps the score in the provided scoreBoard
7. 🧩 Players
8. Each player receives a printed gamesheet with a grid of word-search mini puzzles 3X3 or more
9. Listen carefully to the announcer and locate as fast as you can the word announced in the correct tile
10. Shade the word and start completing the image
11. Try to guess the hidden image theme — or collect the most words

This setup encourages observation, listening, fair competition, and word recognition — all while keeping the game engaging and fun!

🧩 Print & Play vs Classic Mode — Key Differences

Classic Mode

1. 🧍 Solo experience
2. ✅ Players solve all words in their pace
3. 📃 Full wordlist is visible
4. 🖼️ Puzzle completes an artwork
5. 🧘 Quiet and meditative

Plug & Play Mode

1. 👥 Multiplayer (Co-op or Versus)
2. 🎤 Announcer gives one word at a time
3. ❌ Only announced words are allowed
4. 🎮 Puzzle becomes a game of speed and deduction
5. 🔊 Energetic and social

Game Objective & Description

Your mission:

1. Find the announced word in the correct tile of mini puzzles
2. Shade it to reveal part of the image
3. Try to guess the subject of the image before anyone else
4. Or win by finding the most words before the end

Each round, a new word and its tile (A1, B4...) are announced by the facilitator (or announcer). Players race to locate and shade it. Only the first player to do so scores the point.

Track progress using the LexaPics Scoreboard, dots-and-boxes style for easy score keeping, a line for each word found. Each completed box = 5 words.

The game ends when:

1. All tile-word pairs are announced
2. Or a player correctly identifies the hidden image theme, even before announcing all words

Each image is divided into a grid of tiles — for example 5×5, 4×4, or 4×6 — which represent 25, 16, or 24 mini word-search puzzles respectively, and a grid of 10X10 or 12X12 letters per mini puzzle, named A1, C2, letters for rows numbers for columns.

Each tile contains a small word-search puzzle where words can appear in the following three directions:

1. Horizontally (left to right)
2. Vertically (top to bottom)
3. Diagonally (top-left to bottom-right)

This is the default and easiest setup — perfect for beginners or younger players.

Game Rules

1. The announcer downloads the the puzzle game sheets for the players, and scoreboard and the preview and wordlists per tile for himself.
2. Each round, a random tile-word pair is announced by the announcer. Players must locate and shade the word in its correct tile.
3. Only the first player to shade the word earns the point. No other player may shade that word — even if they also find it. The announcer is responsible for following the rules.
4. Once the announcer marks the point for the player that found it, and marks it on the wordList proceeds to a new word randomly for another tile, or for the same.
5. Different play modes: (a) the announcer proceeds to a new word when a players find one word, or (b) announce words based on a time interval using a timer or hourglass.
6. Do not shade unannounced words, unless everyone agrees to that rule.
7. Each correct word earns a mark on your LexaPics scoreboard. Every full box = 5 words and there are 20 lines X 5 boxes = sum of 500 words. But in game mode we won't need theese much!
8. Words may repeat across tiles but only once per specific tile.
9. The game ends when:
10. All words are announced
11. Or a player correctly guesses the image’s theme
12. If no one guesses the theme, the player with the most shaded words wins.

You can find more for the game in it's website here

You need just a printer, markers for each player, pen / pencil for the announcer to mark spoken words and mark score.

1. printer for printing gamesheets, scoreboard and wordlists for the announcer.
2. markers, dry erase or textliners (dark colored) (wee need to have transparency as we shade words to be able to find the rest words on the tile check the image)

For each one of the 5 different themes i provide you with remixes, regarding difficulty. The words are easy words related to the theme to find.

File names below follow the following format: #002-4X6-10-HVD

1. 002 → Game theme ID
2. 4X6 → Grid layout: 4 columns × 6 rows (24 puzzles)
3. 10 → Each puzzle uses a 10×10 letter grid (12 = 12 letters etc.)
4. HVD → Each puzzle uses Horizontal, Vertical and Diagonal (leftTop to RightBotttom) word positioning
5. HV → Each puzzle uses only Horizontal & Vertical word positioning

For an easy start, we recommend playing with a 3×3 gamesheet and 8-letter grids — simple and quick for newcomers! maybe only HV too?

Following are the gamesheets, one per player start with an easy game, lets say 3X3 - 8 - HV or HVD.

1. So choose a game and print as many gamesheets for that game as the players

the announcer is the only one to know the game's ID theme & category, keeps the score, coordinates and announces the words.

the announcer prints

1. the scoreboard (one per 4 players)
2. the word list for the selected game ID and remix
3. checks in the all sample games themes categories the category and the theme of the gameID selected

the game just begun!

1. the announcer announces the category of the game ID
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3. Each round, a random tile-word pair is announced by the announcer. Players must locate and shade the word in its correct tile.
4. Only the first player to shade the word earns the point. No other player may shade that word — even if they also find it. The announcer is responsible for following the rules.
5. Once the announcer marks the point for the player that found it, and marks it on the wordList proceeds to a new word randomly for another tile, or for the same.
6. Different play modes: (a) the announcer proceeds to a new word when a players find one word, or (b) announce words based on a time interval using a timer or hourglass.
7. Do not shade unannounced words, unless everyone agrees to that rule.
8. Each correct word earns a mark on your LexaPics scoreboard. Every full box = 5 words and there are 20 lines X 5 boxes = sum of 500 words. But in game mode we won't need theese much!
9. Words may repeat across tiles but only once per specific tile.
10. The game ends when:
11. All words are announced
12. Or a player correctly guesses the image’s theme
13. If no one guesses the theme, the player with the most shaded words wins.

You'll be surprised by the fast pace of the game and the creativity! Not only you are a player but a Picasso too! each word you find makes a pixel, a brush stroke on your canvas, your game sheet!

Check more about the game on the webstite LexaPics Word War PnP

Prefer the calm and creative version? Try the classic LexaPics experience — relaxing, artistic, and intuitive! -- Not enough players or none takes the announcer role to miss all the fun? Try the LexaPics web app experience where your mobile phone takes the announcer role!

✅ Next Steps

Try it today with your friends, classroom, or family game night!

And don’t forget to check out the original LexaPics Classic instructable: 📘 Lexapics Classic Tutorial

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