The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
GRIPMAN
Definition of GRIPMAN
noun
A man employed to manipulate the grip of a cable car (the streetcar), therefore enabling it to start and stop.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From grip + -man.
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.
GRIPMAN in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 28, 17 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 28, 17 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
GRIPMAN starts with G and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read AGIMNPR - 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 GRIPMAN?
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 28 - and most players walked straight past it.
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