The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
QUASIMODE
Definition of QUASIMODE
noun
A mode that remains activated only through some constant action on the part of the user, such as holding down a certain key on the keyboard.
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Where it comes from
From quasi- + mode.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUASIMODE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 150, 17 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 19 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 150, 17 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUASIMODE starts with Q and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ADEIMOQSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Could you have found QUASIMODE?
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 150 - and most players walked straight past it.
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