The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HANDICRAFT
Definition of HANDICRAFT
noun
A trade requiring skill of hand; manual occupation; handcraft.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
For handcraft, influenced by handiwork; Old English handcræft. By surface analysis, handy + -craft.
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.
HANDICRAFT in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 100, 28 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 101, 29 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First found by a player on Day 100, 28 August 2026.
Built from these letters
HANDICRAFT starts with H and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read AACDFHINRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Words that start HANDIC
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found HANDICRAFT?
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 100 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER