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SAMBUKE
Definition of SAMBUKE
noun
Alternative form of sambuca.
noun
An Italian liqueur made from elderberries and flavoured with licorice, traditionally served with 3 coffee beans that represent health, wealth and fortune (or past, present and future).
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SAMBUKE · 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.
SAMBUKE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 11 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SAMBUKE starts with S and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read ABEKMSU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found SAMBUKE?
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 140 - and most players walked straight past it.
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