The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
MONTE
Definition of MONTE
noun
A game in which three or four cards are dealt face-up and players bet on which of them will first be matched in suit by others dealt.
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Where it comes from
Borrowed from Spanish monte (“mountain”): in the sense of the card game, referring to the stack of unplayed cards. Doublet of mount.
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.
MONTE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 43, 2 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First found by a player on Day 43, 2 July 2026.
Built from these letters
MONTE starts with M and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read EMNOT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start MONTE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 43
Could you have found MONTE?
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 43 - and most players walked straight past it.
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