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Thank you for clarifications! I did run it :) Due to the themes of the words that the Lexiconauts ended up picking up from a dictionary, it was a story about Time Thieves breaking into a public library to steal readers' time.

Wanted to show you the final wordlist image, but itch refuses to upload the picture, so here is the list:
Lexiconaut 1:
factual +
timely +++ > quick
capable > practised -- ++
catching - + > hold +
municipal - +
volume + 

Lexiconaut 2:
bookish - +
reader -
habitual +
accord + - > bond +
detective -
expert - > handy +++> accessible

Dice hated the Lexiconauts at first, but then it got better.

Some observations:

- three rolls might be too many for a complex challenge, Lexiconauts tend to use the same words throughout the challenge (it's not forbidden, but a little bit boring) unless the plan is really elaborate; two rolls might be enough to resolve the challenge (+ another if results are a tie);

- it was not clear whether a word used as an assist gets +\-; in the game it was decided to give the assist-word a +\- as well;

- the game becomes more and more fun as it goes on! with clever word usage;

- thesaurus helped with changing words after challenges, but sometimes it was not needed at all.

Thank you for sharing the game!

Glad you find it interesting! Some of your feedbacks really resonated with my beta testing. Unfortunately some people feel this kind of games too “alien” for their experience and don’t like words as a playful tool so I had to keep the rules really simple and forgiving so they would not feel excluded. But yes, I should make a longer, step-by-step revision for the beginners, and a brutal mode for the expert (note to self: do this). 
by the way if you like this kind of games I just published a really experimental game called break>rules. It’s related to words but with a much more extreme concept. 

Yes, I already read through Break>Rules and plan to run it! Absolutely amazing idea, I loved it at the first glance. 

Thank you for creating and publishing these interesting games!