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CONKERS
Definition of CONKERS
noun
A game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a "conker") suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By surface analysis, conker + -s, although the game itself came before the modern meaning of conker as "horse chestnut". See conker for more details.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
CONKERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 29 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 7, 28 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CONKERS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEKNORS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found CONKERS?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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