The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
PUTLOCK
Definition of PUTLOCK
noun
Alternative form of putlog.
noun
One of the pieces of timber, or metal, on which the planks forming the platform of scaffolding are supported, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole made in the wall (a putlog hole) for that purpose.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, PUTLOCK · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PUTLOCK in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 136, 3 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 21 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 91, 19 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PUTLOCK starts with P and ends with K. Sorted, its letters read CKLOPTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
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 PUTLOCK?
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 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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