The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
LANX
Definition of LANX
noun
A platter or dish for serving food in Ancient Rome.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Latin lanx.
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.
LANX in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LANX starts with L and ends with X. Sorted, its letters read ALNX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found LANX?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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