The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
THERBLIG
Definition of THERBLIG
noun
Any of a set of fundamental motions required for a worker to perform a manual operation.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
By partial reversal of the name of its inventor, F. B. Gilbreth, American engineer.
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.
THERBLIG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 5 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 79, 7 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 166, 2 November 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 1 day.
First ever to find it
on Day 130, 27 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
THERBLIG starts with T and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BEGHILRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found THERBLIG?
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 79 - and most players walked straight past it.
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