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Lexicon (card Game)
Lexicon is a word game using a Dedicated deck card game, dedicated deck of cards for 2 to 4 players published as a shedding card game. The original game was published by Waddingtons in the United Kingdom, and it was later distributed and licensed internationally, and has been published with various names and in different formats. The intellectual property for the game is currently owned by Winning Moves. Rules for numerous games using the deck of cards for Lexicon have been created, including for solitaire games and for tournaments. Publication history ''Lexicon'' was created by David Whitelaw in 1932 and originally published by Waddingtons. 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. A section in the rulebook was titled "How to arrange a Lexicon drive" for the organisation and execution of a party or tournament based ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Whitelaw
David Whitelaw (1875–1970) British writer, editor and illustrator. Life and work David Whitelaw was born in Holloway, Islington, then still in Middlesex, to David Whitelaw and Hannah Baxter. Both of his parents died during his infancy and he and his elder brother Stephen (1873 - 1936) were raised by their grandparents, Theodore and Eliza Baxter, members of the North London branch of the Sandemanian church. After brief spells in New York City and Paris in the 1890s, Whitelaw returned to London to work for various Fleet Street newspapers as an illustrator and journalist, later becoming editor of The London Magazine and The Premier Magazine. The Premier Magazine, published by the Amalgamated Press, (based at Fleetway House in Farringdon, London) ran between 1914 and 1931 and published atmospheric adventure and mystery fiction including authors such as Edgar Wallace, Sax Rohmer, Rose Champion de Crespigny and Achmed Abdullah. His first novel "M'Stodger's Affinity" was publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |