The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
SIDEROMANCY
Definition of SIDEROMANCY
noun
divination by studying the burning of straws on heated iron.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From sidero- + -mancy.
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.
SIDEROMANCY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 4 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 147, 14 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 172, 8 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First found by a player on Day 147, 14 October 2026.
Built from these letters
SIDEROMANCY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read ACDEIMNORSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Could you have found SIDEROMANCY?
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 147 - and most players walked straight past it.
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