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LexiTales
A word-tile board game for ages 9–14: place letter tiles to build interlocking words and score, with premium squares and a friendly, level-pickable bot. Pass-and-play, play a friend by room code, or take the solo best-word puzzle. An original game with an open word list; in a room-code game only your moves pass through our server, with no names.
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
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Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning.
Mentored by Tilda
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Meet the cast
LexiTales's cast each embody one word-tile idea; guide Tilda nudges the loose tiles until a word appears and asks “where does this word score the most?”
Tilda
rack-vision — nudge your loose tiles around until the hidden word appears
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Hooke
The hook — add one letter to a word on the board to make a brand-new word (ART → CART)
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Wefta
The weaver — thread a new word down through an across word so both read true
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Starla
The planner — save your heavy letters (Q, Z, X) for the ⭐ and triple squares
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What's inside
Learning goal
A word-tile board game for ages 9–14: place letter tiles to build interlocking words and score, with premium squares and a friendly, level-pickable bot. Pass-and-play, play a friend by room code, or take the solo best-word puzzle. An original game with an open word list; in a room-code game only your moves pass through our server, with no names.
Mentored by Tilda — no data leaves the device.
How LexiTales handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
LexiTales runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
LexiTales is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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