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GENLOCKS
Definition of GENLOCKS
verb
third-person singular simple present indicative of genlock
noun
A technique whereby the video output of one source, or a specific reference signal, is used to synchronize other sources.
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Word DNA
GENLOCKS inherits its ancestry from its root, GENLOCK.
How it is built
Same root, GENLOCK · 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.
GENLOCKS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GENLOCKS starts with G and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CEGKLNOS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found GENLOCKS?
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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.
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