Susie Dent is a fan, as is Stephen Fry and when the game launched on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter last year, it became the most successful word game in the platform’s history.

League of the Lexicon is a beautifully designed game about words and language, ideal for language lovers, quiz fiends and the incurably curious.

The game features 2,000 questions probing every corner of language, from definitions and archaic words, to etymology, usage, and language trivia. But this isn’t any old quiz game; the world’s finest linguists and lexicographers have contributed questions to the game, making it the ultimate test of wordly wisdom.

The game isn’t just smart, it’s beautiful too, illustrated throughout by two outstanding artists. Stavros Damos has created the players’ character cards, the so-called ‘League of the Lexicon’, after whom the game is named; and Steve Noble has drawn the beautiful Artefacts earned by answering questions correctly.

League of the Lexicon is simple to learn but challenging to win. The game is for two to six players, but with six rule variations, it accommodates both solo play and large parties. And with two levels of difficulty, younger or less confident players can join in.

London-based Joshua Blackburn, the game’s creator, said: “The joy of League of the Lexicon isn’t just proving what you know, it’s finding out what you don’t. Until now, Scrabble has been the ultimate game for word lovers, but League of the Lexicon is a game about words, and there isn’t a game like it.”


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