The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ROQUES
Definition of ROQUES
Wiktionary has no entry for ROQUES itself. This is its base word, ROQUE.
noun
A form of croquet using short-handled mallets, and played on a hard surface.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
The origin recorded for ROQUE.
Coined 1899 by removing the first and last letters from croquet.
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.
ROQUES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 14 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 38, 27 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 96, 24 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 16 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 38, 27 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROQUES starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read EOQRSU - 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.
Also seen on Day 38
Could you have found ROQUES?
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 38 - and most players walked straight past it.
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