The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PLAYDOUGH
Definition of PLAYDOUGH
noun
Modeling clay for children.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From play + dough.
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.
PLAYDOUGH in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 26, 15 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 26, 15 June 2026.
Built from these letters
PLAYDOUGH starts with P and ends with H. Sorted, its letters read ADGHLOPUY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PLAYDO
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 26
Could you have found PLAYDOUGH?
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 26 - and most players walked straight past it.
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