The League of the Lexicon, after whom the game is named, is a company of outcast lexicographers on a quest to secure rare lexical Artefacts. Some of the categories addressed are fossil words, Shakespearean zingers, the Biblical origin of the word “scapegoat,” a usage guide to novel punctuation, a Simpsons lexicon, delicious English words for nonsense, printers’ marks, reduplicative words, obsolete occupations, origin stories of eponyms, phrases the English use to insult the French and vice versa, the slang and jargon of drunks and drinks, obsolete occupations, grammar jokes (who knew? If you have two artefacts with icons that don't match any on your character card, you can discard them to draw another.

Two thousand questions, two difficulty levels, five categories (lexicon master, meaning and more, usage and abusive, word sauce, wordly wisdom), beautiful hand-drawn illustrations.

As one of the creators commented, “When Stephen Fry endorses your game [‘A logophile’s dream…it’s a triumph’], you know you must be doing something right. I think this is also a good lesson that tackling a specific subject with a game, connecting yourself with that subjects community, and focusing on audiences outside of the typical board game marketplace can be incredibly effective, if you can do it right.

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Trading as Two Brothers Games, Blackburn is also working on a junior edition for ages eight and up and the game will soon be arriving at Barnes and Noble, ready for American language lovers.