The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PRESOLVING
Definition of PRESOLVING
noun
To transform a mathematical problem into an equivalent problem that is hopefully easier to solve.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From pre- + solving or presolve + -ing.
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.
PRESOLVING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 116, 13 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 116, 13 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PRESOLVING starts with P and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGILNOPRSV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start PRESOL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found PRESOLVING?
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 116 - and most players walked straight past it.
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