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''[['Lexi-Cross]]''' was a TV-style game released in 1991 by Interplay for MS-DOS and [[Apple Macintosh]]. This game was a futuristic hybrid of ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'' and ''[[The Cross Wits]]'', with a little bit of ''Double Exposure''<ref>a 1961 game show on [[CBS]]</ref>. The game could be played Living vs. Living, Living vs. Robot or Robot vs. Robot.
 
Each player controlled a 150-tile game board, with intersecting words hidden on it. The game boards appeared side by side; between them was the robotic hostess, Robanna Silver, who acted as a cursor for revealing tiles. Both boards had the same words on white letter tiles, in different positions, along with:
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* [[Bonus Space|Bonus Spaces]]s: On the board were plus point tiles, peek tiles, safety tokens and vowel tokens. On the spinner were "Reveal Column" and "Reveal Row" spaces; the player chose which column or row to reveal.
* [[Color-Coded Multiplayer]]: Players selected two preferred colors for their ''Lexi-Cross'' profiles. Those colors were used for their boards in the game.
* [[Crossword Puzzle]]
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* [[Shout-Out]]: The consonants' base point values were borrowed from the board game [[Scrabble]].
* [[Vaporware]]: The manual mentioned expansion disks for ''Lexi-Cross'' that never were produced.
* [[Visual Pun|Visual Puns]]s: The Saturnian head resembled that planet, the Neptunian head was fishlike and the Plutonian head was [[Classic Disney Shorts|doglike]].
* [[Whammy]]: The Bankrupt space on the spinner was this, unless the player spent a safety token, as were the minus point tiles on the game boards.
* [[X Meets Y]]: ''Wheel of Fortune'' meets ''The Cross-Wits''.