The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PIGEONHOLES
Definition of PIGEONHOLES
noun
An outdoor game played in the 17th and early 18th centuries in which each player bowls a ball towards targets (probably small compartments).
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pigeonhole + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns and pluralia tantum; and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of verbs).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PIGEONHOLE · 2 relatives 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.
PIGEONHOLES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 31, 20 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 112, 9 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 31, 20 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PIGEONHOLES starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EEGHILNOOPS - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and O appear more than once.
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 PIGEONH
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 31
Could you have found PIGEONHOLES?
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 31 - and most players walked straight past it.
Play today's OUTLIER