The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
MICROQUAKES
Definition of MICROQUAKES
noun
plural of microquake
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Word DNA
MICROQUAKES inherits its ancestry from its root, MICROQUAKE.
How it is built
Same root, MICROQUAKE · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MICROQUAKES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 66, 25 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 126, 23 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 66, 25 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MICROQUAKES starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEIKMOQRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found MICROQUAKES?
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 66 - and most players walked straight past it.
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