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RETCONS
Definition of RETCONS
noun
plural of retcon
noun
A fictional setting in which a new storyline explains or changes a previous event or attaches a new significance to it.
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Word DNA
RETCONS inherits its ancestry from its root, RETCON.
How it is built
Same root, RETCON · 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.
RETCONS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 158, 25 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 159, 26 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 7 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 158, 25 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
RETCONS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read CENORST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
5 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found RETCONS?
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 158 - and most players walked straight past it.
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