The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PATCHBOARD
Definition of PATCHBOARD
noun
A component of a manual telephone switchboard, or of various early data processing equipment, in which circuits are completed with cords on a matrix of connections.
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Where it comes from
From patch + board.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PATCHBOARD in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 163, 30 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 6 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 163, 30 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PATCHBOARD starts with P and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AABCDHOPRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Could you have found PATCHBOARD?
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 163 - and most players walked straight past it.
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