The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TACKLINGS
Definition of TACKLINGS
noun
plural of tackling
TACKLE · via tackling
noun
A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook.
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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.
TACKLINGS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 32, 21 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 148, 15 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 4 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 32, 21 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
TACKLINGS starts with T and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACGIKLNST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 32
Could you have found TACKLINGS?
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 32 - and most players walked straight past it.
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