Description
Lexi-Cross is a fun TV game show based on elements from
Wheel of Fortune and
Scrabble in a humorous futuristic setting. Competing either against other living creatures (humans, aliens) or against robots, you must flip the tiles and use the revealed letters to form the correct words.
With more than 600 challenging puzzles,
Lexi-Cross should keep the average game show fan busy for quite a while.
Alternate Titles
- "Lexicross" -- Common alternate spelling
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Trivia
The names of the opponents in the game are taken from many different Areas:
AGIMA - Amiga spelled backwards
TOBOR - Robot spelled backwards
VEEGER - The cloudship from "Star Trek I"
ROBBY - Robby the Robot from "Lost in Space"
ENIAC - The first computer
BABBAGE - Named after Charles Babbage considered the father of modern computing
TURING - Helped desgin the first computer, and also helped crack the "Engima" sipher during WWII
OLIVAW - Last name of Isaac Asimov book Character
JOSHUA - Password into the W.O.P.R. Computer in the movie "WarGames"
C64PO - Homage to Star Wars and the C64
R3D3 - See above
ADANAC - Canada spelled backwards
FALKEN - Name of the Professor in "WarGames"
DANEEL - Character in Issac Asimov Novels
ELIZA - Considered the first artifical intelligence on computers
MARVIN - Either a refernce to "Marvin the Paranoid Android" from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or to Marvin the Martian from Bugs Bunny fame.
This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by
faceless (405) on Jan 15, 2000.