LexaPics Word Game - Print aNd Play version

Hear it. Spot it. Shade it. Win it.
Word race with a picture twist.

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

Game Mode Introduction

If you love fast-paced, competitive word games, then LexaPics Game Mode is made for you!
Unlike classic LexaPics — where each player solves the puzzle at their own pace — this mode brings everyone into the action at once, as words are announced in real time by the game announcer.
Can you find and shade the correct word before anyone else?
Each word you catch reveals part of a hidden image — and gets you one step closer to guessing the mystery theme first!

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!

Explore Classic LexaPics

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:

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

Objective ↓

Game Objective & Description

Your mission:

Find the announced word in the correct tile of mini puzzles
Shade it to reveal part of the image
Try to guess the subject of the image before anyone else
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:

All tile-word pairs are announced
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:

Horizontally (left to right)
Vertically (top to bottom)
Diagonally (top-left to bottom-right)

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

To increase the challenge, future versions may also include:

Diagonal (bottom-left to top-right)
Inverted words — placed right-to-left or bottom-to-top
More letters per grid

But for now, we’re keeping it simple with just the three basic directions! and start with a 3X3 puzzle with 10 letters per grid! :)

LexaPics is great for:

Family fun
Educational use
Creative solo play
Speed-based challenges

Simply download the provided files in the samples section, print and start playing — no setup required!

Rules ↓

Game Rules

The announcer downloads the the puzzle game sheets for the players, and scoreboard and the preview and wordlists per tile for himself.
The announcer presents the theme category to the players (for the samples found in a separate file in announcer folder).
Each round, a random tile-word pair is announced by the announcer. Players must locate and shade the word in its correct tile. The announcer could also announce the words per tile and not randomly
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.
Once the announcer marks the point for the player that found it, and checks the word on the wordList proceeds to a new word randomly for another tile, or for the same.
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.
Do not shade unannounced words, unless everyone agrees to that rule.
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!
Words may repeat across tiles but only once per specific tile.
The game ends when:
- All words are announced
- Or a player correctly guesses the image’s theme
If no one guesses the theme, the player with the most shaded words wins.

TL;DR ?

Samples ↓

Samples Section

In this section, you'll find a variety of sample games and resources to help you explore and try out LexaPics — both in automatic and manual (print & play) mode.

Included in the demo pack:

Printable gamesheets with puzzle grids
Printable scoreboards for tracking progress
Voice-ready word lists for announcer
theme preview for announcer

File names follow the following format:

#002-4X6-10-HVD

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

If you're the announcer, the pack includes:

Word lists formatted for voice announcements with wordlists per tile
Printable previews for each theme
all placed in a separate folder in the following links

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