The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
CUNEUS
Definition of CUNEUS
noun
A portion of the occipital lobe of the human brain, involved in visual processing.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin cuneus. Doublet of coign and coin.
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.
CUNEUS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 72, 31 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 118, 15 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
CUNEUS starts with C and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CENSUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Could you have found CUNEUS?
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 72 - and most players walked straight past it.
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