The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
ROVING
Definition of ROVING
adjective
Moving about; having no fixed or permanent abode; travelling from place to place.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From rove + -ing.
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.
ROVING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 25 boards so far. 47 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 7, 28 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 119, 16 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 7, 28 May 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ROVING starts with R and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read GINORV - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 7
Could you have found ROVING?
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 7 - and most players walked straight past it.
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