The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ROUNDERS
Definition of ROUNDERS
noun
A team sport played with bat and ball with one fielding side and one batting side. It is similar to softball and baseball.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From round + -er + -s, presumably for the circuit that batters make around the field.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ROUNDERS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
Built from these letters
ROUNDERS starts with R and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read DENORRSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. R appears more than once.
Same letters, different word
2 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start ROUNDE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROUNDERS?
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 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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