The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
RETAPING
Definition of RETAPING
verb
present participle and gerund of retape
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
RETAPING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 70, 29 July 2026. The most recent board was Day 88, 16 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 70, 29 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RETAPING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read AEGINPRT - 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 RETAPING?
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 70 - and most players walked straight past it.
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