After a poor launch for an initial small edition as a market test, Waddingtons upgraded the packaging and increased the price, and by late 1932 were selling thousands of units per day in stationery shops.

[6]: 1  In 1938, George Parker stated that of all games sold by the company, the demand for Lexicon was only exceeded by that of regular playing cards.

From 23-25 September 1983, Waddingtons organised the Lexicon Golden Jubilee Weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the game.

[4] Each player is dealt ten cards from a pool of 52,[3] each depicting a letter and a point value.

[7]: 15 [9]: 19 [10]: 135 In Lexicon Criss-Cross, the players form words within a 5×5 grid using 25 cards revealed in succession from the deck.

[10]: 135 In Lexicon Scrabble, a shuffled deck is scattered face-up on the playing surface and the players collect cards as quickly as possible to spell out a seven-letter word.

[7]: 15 An entry in a 1934 article in The Sydney Mail stated that the cards "are packed in amusing little boxes looking like pocket dictionaries".

[8]: 25 In its catalogue description, the Victoria and Albert Museum state that Lexicon is "the best known of the more sophisticated spelling card games" published during the 1920s and 1930s.