The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ROUNDUP
Definition of ROUNDUP
noun
An activity in which cattle are herded together in order to be inspected, counted, branded or shipped.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Deverbal from round up.
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.
ROUNDUP in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 3 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 82, 10 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 121, 18 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 108, 5 September 2026.
Built from these letters
ROUNDUP starts with R and ends with P. Sorted, its letters read DNOPRUU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. U appears more than once.
Words that start ROUNDU
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ROUNDUP?
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 82 - and most players walked straight past it.
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