The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PLAYER
Definition of PLAYER
noun
One that plays. One who plays any game or sport.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.
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.
PLAYER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 13 boards so far. 15 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 98, 26 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
PLAYER starts with P and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AELPRY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 10
Could you have found PLAYER?
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 10 - and most players walked straight past it.
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