The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
HANGED
Definition of HANGED
verb
simple past and past participle of hang (now only when referring to the method of execution, elsewhere hung is used)
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
HANGED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 78, 6 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 92, 20 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 10 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 78, 6 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
HANGED starts with H and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read ADEGHN - 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 HANGED?
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 78 - and most players walked straight past it.
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