The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CROQUET
Definition of CROQUET
noun
A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet, crocket, and crotchet.
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.
CROQUET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 12 boards so far. 70 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 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 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CROQUET starts with C and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read CEOQRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start CROQUE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found CROQUET?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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