The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
OPENCAST
Definition of OPENCAST
adjective
Of or pertaining to strip mining, in which material is removed from a surface that has been exposed
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From open + cast.
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.
OPENCAST in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 58, 17 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 37 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 58, 17 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
OPENCAST starts with O and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ACENOPST - 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 OPENCAST?
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 58 - and most players walked straight past it.
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