The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
JERQUING
Definition of JERQUING
noun
The searching of a ship for undocumented goods.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Verbal noun from jerque.
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.
JERQUING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 61, 20 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 25 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 61, 20 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
JERQUING starts with J and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGIJNQRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses J and Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found JERQUING?
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 61 - and most players walked straight past it.
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