A WikiGacha alternative built for trading

Your WikiGacha collection comes with you

WikiGacha keeps your collection in your browser, and lets you export it to a backup file. Lexicodex reads that file and rebuilds your cards, in a minute, on a computer or a phone:

1. Create your Lexicodex account (email, Google, Discord, or your Tusmo account).
2. On WikiGacha, Collection page, local backup section: Export. Pick a passphrase; WikiGacha saves a .wgbak file.
3. On the Import page, drop that file and type your passphrase.
4. Your cards show up, rarest first; confirm the import with a long press.

The backup is decrypted in your browser: your passphrase never leaves the page, Lexicodex only receives your article titles, and nothing changes on your WikiGacha side. Articles from English and French Wikipedia are brought over (not WikiGacha's other languages), up to 10,000 cards, rarest first.

Every article found becomes a Lexicodex card, at Lexicodex's rarity (set by readers, not by the article's quality: a WikiGacha SSR won't necessarily land as mythic), in the standard finish. These cards are bound to your account: you can show them, file them in albums and decorate them, but not sell or trade them. Articles Lexicodex doesn't have are worth one drop of ink each, up to 1,000, paid after your first 100 packs.

WikiGacha and Lexicodex: what's different

Both games draw their cards from Wikipedia articles and play free in the browser. They part ways on how a card's value is set, and on what you do with it afterwards.

Rarity that follows the readers

In Lexicodex, the more an article is read, the rarer its card. We take the median of its monthly views over twelve months: a month of news doesn't make a mythic, a page everyone reads all year round does. The tiers, for English Wikipedia:

• Mythic: over 150,000 views a month, about 1,400 articles (Taylor Swift, Napoleon, Minecraft…)
• Epic: over 48,000, about 10,200 articles
• Rare: over 15,600, about 41,900 articles
• Uncommon: over 9,300, about 42,600 articles
• Common: every other article above 200 views a month, about 1.8 million of them

French Wikipedia, read about ten times less, has its own thresholds: mythic from 25,000 views a month.

Each copy also gets its own finish, drawn separately from its rarity: standard, reverse, holo, cosmos or prism, and sometimes neon, a black card where the picture's outlines light up as tubes. About one pack in four holds a special card; one in sixteen a holo, one in two hundred a prism. A prism neon Eiffel Tower is a different card from a standard one, and the market knows it.

Collecting together

3D cards in five finishes

Every card flips, shines and tilts under your finger. On top of its rarity, a copy can come out reverse, holo, cosmos or prism, and neon: the card turns black and its picture's outlines light up as tubes.

Duels of wit, not trivia

Build a deck of 50 cards and take on another player over 3 rounds. Each round sets a theme, say "Would make the worst birthday present": you have 30 seconds to play the card from your hand that fits it best, and Lexi, the referee (an AI), scores both cards out of 100. A cheese fondue can beat Napoleon.

Two games in one: Wikipedia and the dictionary

Next to the articles sits a second game of word cards: each word's Wiktionary entry, in French or English, with its definitions and pronunciation. Both share your booster reserve and your ink.

A market and player-to-player trades

Put your duplicates up for auction, with an optional buy-now price, on the market. Or offer a trade to a friend: up to 20 cards on each side; they accept, decline or counter, and the cards travel from one phone to the other in a small 3D scene.

The forge, for the card you're missing

Recycle cards into ink, then spend it at the forge to craft any card in the game, even one you never pulled, or to upgrade a copy to holo, cosmos or prism.

Albums, showcase and Almanac

Sort your cards into themed albums you can share with a link, show off your best three on your profile, climb the leaderboards, and look up any article in the Almanac: its rarity, how many copies exist, who owns them.