The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CARTOMANCY
Definition of CARTOMANCY
noun
Fortune-telling using cards, as in tarot and Lenormand.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From carto- + -mancy.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CARTOMANCY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 2 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CARTOMANCY starts with C and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read AACCMNORTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. C and A appear more than once.
Could you have found CARTOMANCY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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