The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
POTBOYS
Definition of POTBOYS
noun
plural of potboy
noun
A boy employed in a plant nursery to tap clay pots with a stick for their ringing sound, indicating whether the plant required watering.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
POTBOYS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 125, 22 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 125, 22 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
POTBOYS starts with P and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read BOOPSTY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. O appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found POTBOYS?
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 125 - and most players walked straight past it.
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