The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
QUOITS
Definition of QUOITS
noun
plural of quoit
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Other senses
QUOITS carries 3 further meanings.
noun
Plural form of quoit.
noun
A competitive game in which players throw rings, aiming to land them over vertical sticks.
noun
a game in which iron rings (or open iron rings) are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it
Word DNA
QUOITS inherits its ancestry from its root, QUOIT.
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
1st
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
33.1%
of traced words share this origin (9,723)
branch · 33.1% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, QUOIT · 4 relatives 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.
QUOITS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 16 boards so far. 184 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 23, 12 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 146, 13 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 23, 12 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUOITS starts with Q and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read IOQSTU - 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.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 23
Could you have found QUOITS?
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 23 - and most players walked straight past it.
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