The rare daily word game sweeping the globe. Find what's hidden in plain sight.
TIMER
Definition of TIMER
noun
Agent noun of time: someone or something that times. A device used to measure amounts of time.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From time (verb) + -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.
TIMER in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 9 boards so far. 10 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 1, 22 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 90, 18 August 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 12 days.
First found by a player on Day 9, 29 May 2026.
Built from these letters
TIMER starts with T and ends with R. Sorted, its letters read EIMRT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Same letters, different word
4 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Also seen on Day 1
Could you have found TIMER?
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 1 - and most players walked straight past it.
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