The rare daily word game. Find the hidden in plain sight.

Find the words everyone else missed.

A daily word hunt where common is worthless and rare is everything. Two minutes to learn. Here it is.

1

Build words from the grid

You're picking 10 words. Every day there's a 5×5 grid of 25 letters — spell any real word, 4 letters or longer. Use a letter as often as it appears in the grid, no more. Letters don't have to touch.

2

Chase the rare ones

You're not after the most words. You're after the words almost nobody else thought of. Ten guesses a day. A guess that's too short is free — fix it and try again.

3

Lock in

Done, or out of guesses? Lock in. Your score is final for the day and you earn a rank based on your rarest find. A fresh grid drops every midnight UTC.

How a word scores

A word is worth 100 minus the percentage of players who found it. Same grid, three different words:

RATE88% found it+12
TRACE31% found it+69
CRATER3% found it+97

One word a handful of people find can outscore a long list of obvious ones. That's the whole game.

The rarity ladder

Every word lands in one of six tiers. The rarer the find, the longer the bar — and the higher the score.

🪨COMMON76–100% find it · 0–24 pts
🍀UNCOMMON51–75% find it · 25–49 pts
💍RARE21–50% find it · 50–79 pts
🔮EPIC6–20% find it · 80–94 pts
🏆LEGENDARY1–5% find it · 95–99 pts
💎OUTLIERunder 1% find it · 99+ pts

Make it a competition

OUTLIER is better with a rival. Your result page gives you a copyable score and a downloadable card; the Share page has one-tap buttons — text, WhatsApp, X, email — for the game itself. Here's how people make it stick:

Start a daily group chat

One thread with a few friends. Everyone drops their score after they lock in. It takes two minutes a day and it gets competitive fast.

Challenge one person

Send your result and dare them to beat your rarest word. Rarity — not word count — is the bragging right.

Post the card

Your result is a clean shareable card. Screenshot it or download the image and put it wherever your people are.

Play today's Outlier