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CRUFTING
Definition of CRUFTING
verb
present participle and gerund of cruft
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Word DNA
CRUFTING inherits its ancestry from its root, CRUFT.
How it is built
Same root, CRUFT · 2 relatives 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.
CRUFTING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 154, 21 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 154, 21 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CRUFTING starts with C and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read CFGINRTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found CRUFTING?
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 154 - and most players walked straight past it.
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