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LexTower

Test your vocabulary against gravity and the wind.

Every image below is the running game, captured from the build linked above — nothing is mocked up or composited. Blueprints are shown finished through each level’s own solved plan, so the buildings are the real ones.

Level 100 — the Eiffel, filling in The blueprint payoff. An outline arrives empty and you fill it with words; when the last square lands the building paints itself in, bottom floor first. The Eiffel is the only iron level — riveted lattice with a sparkle that never settles. 174 squares, 11 letters. Download as GIF (4.7 MB)
The finished Eiffel blueprint, iron lattice interior
The Eiffel, finished 18 trusses holding it together at 41% integrity. The panel on the right is the live silhouette — the tower you have actually built, drawn as you build it, with the balance beam beneath showing which way it leans.
A word typed in mid-air showing dashed tiles and a plain-language refusal
The game refuses to lie before you commit BEGAN is typed into open air. The tiles go dashed and grey, and the line underneath says exactly which rule is about to be broken — “Not anchored — cross a letter or rest it on tiles.” Not “invalid”. The other refusals name their own reasons too: an unbalanced beam, a single point of contact, a touching pair that isn’t a word.
The finished Taj Mahal blueprint in marble
Level 97 — marble, and pointed ogee arches Each monument is built from a different material, and the material decides how the finished interior is drawn: marble here, riveted iron on the Eiffel, colonnade arches on the pylons, sun-dried brick on the ziggurats. Fifteen named monuments across a hundred levels.
A finished pylon blueprint with arcade arches
Level 42 — a filled outline, seen whole 78 squares from ten letters. The percentages along the ground are the load each landing pad is carrying; the dashed grid is the outline still to be filled.
The daily tower reaching the Stars band
The daily, at the top of the sky One shared puzzle a day — same letters, same winds, same landing pads for everyone. Trusses open the altitude gates: one to pass Treetops, four to reach the Stars. This run finished at height 29 with five trusses and no recoveries used.

The plan, and the building

Blueprint mode hands you an outline and a fixed set of letters and asks you to fill it exactly. Every square must belong to a real word in both directions, and the structure still has to stand. Finish it and the building paints itself in, bottom floor first.

Level 100 — the Eiffel outline
Level 100 — the Eiffel finished
Level 100 — the Eiffel174 squares from eleven letters. The outline arrives as dashed sky and leaves as riveted iron. This is the only iron level and the last rung of the ladder.
Level 97 — the Taj outline
Level 97 — the Taj finished
Level 97 — the Taj149 squares. The material decides how the finished interior is drawn, so the same fill mechanic produces marble and pointed ogee arches here and lattice on the Eiffel.
Level 42 — a pylon outline
Level 42 — a pylon finished
Level 42 — a pylon78 squares from ten letters, and the shortest way to see the whole idea: the plan on the left is the puzzle, the building on the right is the score.