The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
STARTER
Definition of STARTER
noun
Someone who starts, or who starts something. The person who starts a race by firing a gun or waving a flag. A starting pitcher. A person employed to take new players to the first tee at suitable intervals, and to provide them with caddies and equipment.
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Where it comes from
From start + -er.
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.
STARTER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 90, 18 August 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
STARTER starts with S and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read AERRSTT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T and R appear 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.
Could you have found STARTER?
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 90 - and most players walked straight past it.
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