The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
REFUGIUM
Definition of REFUGIUM
noun
Any local environment that has escaped regional ecological change and therefore provides a habitat for endangered species.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From Latin refugium. Doublet of refuge.
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.
REFUGIUM in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 108, 5 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 79, 7 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
REFUGIUM starts with R and ends with M. Sorted, its letters read EFGIMRUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Could you have found REFUGIUM?
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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.
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