The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PLAYBACK
Definition of PLAYBACK
noun
The replaying of something previously recorded, especially sound or moving images.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From play + back. Sense 2 is from French playback, a pseudo-anglicism of this term.
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.
PLAYBACK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 42, 1 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 122, 19 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 42, 1 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PLAYBACK starts with P and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read AABCKLPY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A appears more than once.
Also seen on Day 42
Could you have found PLAYBACK?
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 42 - and most players walked straight past it.
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