Getting started with Lexora: your first puzzle in 60 seconds

Lexora skips the usual onboarding gauntlet. You don't need an account, you don't need to pick a difficulty curve, and there's no forced fifteen-step tutorial. The fastest route to playing is genuinely: install, type a topic, go.

Step 1 — Install and open

Lexora is a free download on Google Play. On first launch you get a short intro you can skip, and then you're on the home screen. You are, at this point, already able to play. No sign-up wall.

Step 2 — Pick a mode

There are eight. If you have no strong preference, Word Search is the gentlest start and Quiz is the most immediately rewarding. You can switch any time — nothing is locked behind progression.

Step 3 — Type literally anything

This is the part that surprises people. The topic box is not a category picker with forty preset options. It's a text field. Some things that work well:

• A show you're watching — "Breaking Bad", "The Bear"
• Something you're studying — "photosynthesis", "the French Revolution"
• Your job — "nursing terminology", "commercial real estate"
• A place — "Nairobi", "the Scottish Highlands"
• A hobby — "espresso", "Formula 1", "bird watching"

Narrow topics generally produce better puzzles than broad ones. "Ancient Egypt" gives you a sharper crossword than "history" does, because the vocabulary has somewhere to focus.

Step 4 — Choose your pressure level

Before you start you'll pick Zen or Timed. Zen has no clock at all. Timed adds a countdown and a score multiplier. Neither is the "real" mode — pick whichever matches your mood.

What happens next

Generation takes a few seconds. Then you're solving something that has never existed before, on a subject you chose. Finishing awards XP and coins, and counts toward your daily streak.

Four things worth knowing early

You get two free generations a day

No ads, no coins, no account. Beyond that you can earn coins by watching rewarded ads, finishing puzzles, or keeping a streak. Puzzles already in your library always replay free.

Guest progress isn't lost

Play as a guest for as long as you like. When you eventually make an account, everything you've earned — coins, XP, streak, completed puzzles — moves across automatically. Creating an account is about backing progress up and appearing on leaderboards, not unlocking the game.

It works offline

You can pre-download puzzles per mode and play them with no connection at all — on a flight, on the underground, anywhere. Completions queue up and sync when you're back online, so your streak survives.

The streak is the habit

Playing daily builds a streak, and streaks pay coins at milestones. If you miss a day, a Streak Freeze (100 coins) covers you — worth buying before you need it rather than after.

It's in your language

The whole interface is translated into ten languages, including English, 中文, हिन्दी, Español, Français, العربية with full right-to-left layout, বাংলা, Русский, Português and 日本語. It follows your device language automatically and you can change it in settings.