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The first edition was sold through the stationery shops at 1s. 9d. each and sales were practically non-existent. Only words found in any standard dictionary are to be used. Proper nouns are not permitted unless given in the dictionary you are using. instead of being a hundred a month were thousands a day, and there was a wonderful success which has continued up to the present time.

a b c d "Lexicon". Elliott Avedon Museum and Archive of Games. University of Waterloo Faculty of Health. 5 June 1998 . Retrieved 24 February 2023. A writer by the name of David Whitelaw persuaded the company to produce and sell a word game - Lexicon. have the text “Regd No.529991”. The words ‘Master’ and ‘Ltd’ are printed in a different typeface to the earlier edition.No player is allowed to pass his turn without doing one of these four alternatives, but he is not allowed to do more than one in the same turm. a b c d e f Augarde, Tony (1994). The Oxford A to Z of word games. Oxford University Press. pp.133–135. ISBN 0-19-866178-9. The object of Lexicon is simply to have played all of your cards, so that you have none left in your hand. At the end of a round, players add up the score of the cards remaining in their hand. When someone reaches a total of 100, they are eliminated from the game.

when a word is exposed on the table he can take a card, or cards, out of his own hand and change it, or them, for a letter, or letters in a word provided the word left on the table is complete.Word, number and chess games". Games & Puzzles. No.55. Edu-Games (U.K.) Ltd. December 1976 . Retrieved 24 February 2023.