No one else can change your score
Your points come from each word’s permanent rarity, drawn from real English-frequency data. They are fixed per word — not crowd-sourced from how many people found it that day. Most “rare word” games let the crowd move your number; OUTLIER does not. Find a given word and it is worth exactly the same to you as to anyone else, today or any other day.
One board, one moment, everyone
The same 25 letters drop for the whole world at the same instant, once a day. There is no easier board, no head start, no regional variation. Everyone plays the exact same hunt.
Your score is verifiable
Every word has a permanent Rarity Score you can look up, and your total is simply the sum of the words you found. The math is identical for every player and every day. Your score is set the moment you lock in, scored the same way live and when the day settles — it never changes afterward. See the rarity ladder for the exact numbers.
Discovery beats memorizing
Encore gently lowers the points for re-finding the same rare word over and over, so the leaderboard rewards finding new words rather than copying a memorized list. It only ever looks at your own history — it never changes how a word scores for anyone else.
Automated play stays off the leaderboards
The public leaderboards and stats count real human play. Practice games never count, and automated or abusive play is kept off the rankings.
Open rules, by design
We tell you exactly how scoring works and why. Knowing the rules doesn’t let anyone cheat — rarity is fixed whether or not you understand it, and you still have to actually find the words. A game that stays fair even when everyone knows how it works is the strongest kind there is.