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CHESSBOARDS
Definition of CHESSBOARDS
noun
plural of chessboard
CHESSBOARD
noun
A square playing surface divided into eight rows and eight columns, forming sixty-four equal squares arranged in an alternating pattern of colors across both rows and columns.
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Word DNA
CHESSBOARDS inherits its ancestry from its root, CHESSBOARD.
How it is built
Same root, CHESSBOARD · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CHESSBOARDS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 162, 29 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 162, 29 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CHESSBOARDS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCDEHORSSS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start CHESSBO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found CHESSBOARDS?
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 162 - and most players walked straight past it.
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