When you play Outlier, you’re given a grid of letters. The grid isn’t the important part; you don’t have to worry about which letters touch each other. Think of them more like a pile of Scrabble tiles, and use as many as you like, in any order, to create a word.
But besides that scoring, there’s also the question of whether you’re finding words that other players have found. After your game finishes, you’ll find out about those. The first time I played, I found three words that nobody else had found that day (yet): SKIVE, WHOLES, and WAIN. I knew “wain” from reading old books; it was the medieval name for the Big Dipper constellation, referring to a farming wagon. My best word that day was GLOWERS, which only 38 people in the entire history of Outlier had found in any puzzle. In total, I scored 806, which is pretty good.
Type a word into the box at the bottom, and the letters you type will be highlighted on the board so you can keep track of which ones you’ve used. Hit enter when you’re done typing your word. You’ll get a score for the word’s rarity, and then you can start again with another word.
If you’d like to go head-to-head with others, there’s also Outlier Live. Instead of the daily board, you’ll get a board just for your game, and just 60 seconds to play a round against the other people in the room.
How to win at Outlier
Take a look at the board type, which will be named above the board, right under today’s date. Click that and you’ll get a sense of how hard or easy the board is to play. If it’s Deep Water, there aren’t a lot of valid words available, but the ones that are there tend to score pretty high. The opposite is the Open Field, a “generous” board with lots of words to find. Watch out for the Decoy boards, which “look generous and play mean.” On those, make an extra effort to skip the easy words and keep looking for rarer ones.
To find rare words, sometimes I’ll scan the board to see what pops out, and then ask myself if I know any rarer words that use similar letters. For example, if you see WRITE, don't stop there—that's a common word, and so is WRITES. But subtract a letter, and you can have WRIT, which is uncommon, or WRITS, which is rare. If UNDERWRITE is also on the board, that's another rare one, and you can do even better with UNDERWRITES, which ranks as "epic."
Credit: Beth Skwarecki/OutlierOutlier’s guide also suggests rearranging the letters of a word you’ve found, and asking what else it might spell—similar to my tip above. The guide also points out that once you’ve played the game, you’ll start noticing rare words in everyday life, and you may want to keep a list to help yourself remember them.
Does Outlier require a subscription?
Outlier doesn’t require a subscription, but creating an account means you can get onto the leaderboards like Pioneers and see statistics for how well you’ve played over time. If you’d like to support the game financially, there’s a Patreon or the option to make a donation. But the game itself is free to play.
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