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WATCHBOXES
Definition of WATCHBOXES
noun
plural of watchbox
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Word DNA
WATCHBOXES inherits its ancestry from its root, WATCHBOX.
How it is built
Same root, WATCHBOX · 1 relative in the game
WATCHBOXES in a sentence
“Couple of watchboxes out for the rest of this morning, Houston, under the gun earlier this morning, now another line of thunderstorms about to roll into your area, and these will be heading down the I-10 corridor in through much of southern Louisiana, where they've already had enough rain, that's for sure.”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
WATCHBOXES in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 7 boards so far. 60 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 115, 12 September 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 8 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 115, 12 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Also on
Built from these letters
WATCHBOXES starts with W and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ABCEHOSTWX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Words that start WATCHB
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found WATCHBOXES?
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 115 - and most players walked straight past it.
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