What Lex is up to right now.
A snapshot of the shows, games, and shenanigans currently eating my brain — so when someone asks “what are you working on these days?” I have somewhere to point.
Here’s what’s happening with me now:
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On stage
I’m hosting The All-New Game Show.
On October 23 I’m stepping behind the podium to host The All-New Game Show — a live, improvised riff on classic game show TV. Two audience contestants get paired with two seasoned improvisers for a run of old-school games: Wordpass (you may know its ancestor as Password), Triangle-25 (a certain $25,000 Pyramid, legally distinct), and Matchy Matchy (Match Game, but sillier).
Come play, or come watch other people flail gloriously. Tickets are $15.
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Oct 23 FridayHosting The All-New Game Show, 7 PM Shore Thing Theater, 66 S Main St, Ocean Grove, NJ
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New game
Pinball Whiz! is out now.
Yes, another game. Pinball Whiz! is a pinball puzzle game for iPhone: every machine has one ball, one hole, and a bin full of parts. You build the board — flippers, bumpers, spinners, ramps — pull the plunger, and try to sink the shot in as few parts as you can. Beat par and you’re not just a whiz, you’re a True Whiz.
There’s a fresh puzzle every day, an endless supply of random machines, and six puzzle packs with 600 more hand-built boards to chew through.
(It’s free to play. Pinball Whiz Pro unlocks every cabinet theme and soundtrack, plus whatever we dream up next.)
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Save the date
Next up on stage: Arsenic and Old Lace.
Save the date! This January I’ll be in Algonquin Arts Theatre’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace, the classic comedy about a charming bachelor, his two sweet aunts, and the deadly little secret in their window seat. Murder, mayhem, and one of the most beloved farces ever written.
The show runs January 16 through 24, 2027 at Algonquin Arts Theatre in Manasquan, NJ. More information coming soon!
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New game
The Universe, Controlled is out now.
I made another game. The Universe, Controlled is a whimsical little game about space traffic control: rockets, satellites, and UFOs are hurtling around up there, and none of them know the way down. You trace a path with your finger, the craft flies it exactly, and your job is to land everybody on the right world without letting anything crash. Crashes, in space and in apps, are bad.
Every so often something else drifts across the sky — a meteor, an astronaut, an alien, a superhero. The usual suspects. You’ll want to avoid those, too. (You can switch them off in Settings. The game will call you a monster.)
(It’s free for iPhone and iPad. A one-time $4.99 unlock removes the ads and adds new skies, craft, and obstacles.)
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New merch
I have merch now.
There’s a store, it’s called Lex’s Stuff, and it sells the Lexest possible merch: tees and hoodies for Lex on Tech, Strategery, and Lex.Games, plus a sheet of stickers with all three, for the laptop lid that has everything.
Wear your allegiance to a tech blog, a game about blobs, or a pile of word puzzles. I won’t make you pick just one.
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New game
Strategery is back — and now it’s mine.
In 2009 I reviewed a little iPhone game called Strategery for Macworld and wrote that there was no game I played on my iPhone more. Macworld named it the year’s Best Strategy Game. Seventeen years later, I own it, and I just shipped a brand new version, built from the ground up with the original creators on board.
It’s a Risk-ish game of world domination, one blob at a time: every blob on the map holds pegs, you point yours at a neighbor’s and roll, and the last color standing wins. Play solo against the computer, online against friends (with push notifications when it’s your move), or pass-and-play on one device. There’s a new Chaos mode, too, where capturing a starred blob spins a wheel and your conquest has consequences.
(It’s $5 for iPhone and iPad, and a free update for anyone who bought it back in the day.)
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New at Lex.Games
Free full-size crosswords, every Sunday.
Lex.Games now serves up a free full-size crossword every Sunday — the big 15×15 kind, not the Mini — so your Sunday morning has one more excuse to linger over coffee. The weekday crosswords are still a Lex.Games Pro perk, but Sundays are on the house for anyone with a free account.
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New page
So many apps, there’s now an Apps page.
I have so many apps to keep track of now that I gave them a home of their own: a standalone Apps page. If you want the full lineup in one place, that’s where to look.