Contexto Answer Archive

Every Past Contexto Answer in One Place

This is the complete Contexto answer archive. Every day a new puzzle is published, its answer and hints are added here so nothing is ever lost. Whether you're settling a debate about last week's word, catching up on a day you missed, or studying old solves to get faster, the full history is right above.

The archive currently spans #1396 to #1456 and grows by one puzzle every single day. Each entry links to a dedicated page with that day's laddered hints, a difficulty rating, and the closest words by meaning.

How to use the archive

Answers are grouped by month, newest first, so you can scan to the period you need. Click any puzzle number to open its full page. If you're new to the game, start with our how-to-play guide; if you just want the latest, jump to today's Contexto answer.

Why Keep a Contexto Archive?

A daily game is fleeting by design — the official site shows only today's puzzle, and yesterday's word vanishes the moment the clock ticks over. An archive fixes that. It turns a stream of one-off puzzles into something you can browse, search, and learn from.

Use the archive to get faster

It's also the best way to improve. Reviewing past answers trains your instinct for how Contexto groups meaning, so you start recognising themes faster. Over time you'll notice patterns in the kinds of words that appear, and your average number of guesses to reach rank 1 will quietly fall.

A Short History of Contexto

Contexto was created by Brazilian developer Pedro Vilela and launched in 2022, riding the wave of daily one-word games that followed Wordle's breakout success. Instead of copying the letter-grid formula, Vilela built something different: a game powered by a language model that ranks guesses by meaning. The idea clicked, and Contexto quickly grew a devoted daily audience.

One number per day

A new puzzle has appeared every day since, each with its own number. Because the numbering is continuous, the puzzle number doubles as a rough date stamp — higher numbers are more recent. That's part of why an archive is so useful: it turns a long, unbroken run of daily puzzles into something you can actually navigate.

What You'll Find on Each Answer Page

Open any puzzle from the archive and you'll get the full picture for that day, not just the word:

• Progressive hints — a ladder from category to first letter, so you can test yourself on an old puzzle.
• The answer — revealed by default on past puzzles, behind a tap on today's.
• A difficulty rating — our estimate of how tough that day's word was.
• The closest words — the meanings that ranked nearest, so you can see how the solve should have flowed.

Get Better by Studying Past Answers

The archive isn't just a lookup tool — it's a training ground. Because Contexto rewards a feel for how words relate, the fastest way to improve is to review how previous answers grouped their closest words. Do it a few times and you start to internalise the model's sense of "closeness".

Practise on a past puzzle

Try this: pick a past puzzle, cover the answer, and work the hint ladder as if it were live. Then compare your path to the closest words we list. Over a week or two of this, you'll notice your opening guesses landing warmer and your average number of tries to reach rank 1 dropping — the same skill that makes today's puzzle easier.

How Often Does the Archive Update?

Once a day, every day. The moment a new Contexto puzzle goes live, its answer, hints, and difficulty are published and the previous day drops into this archive automatically. There's no manual step and no gap — the newest entry at the top of the list is always the current puzzle, and everything below it is a permanent record you can return to whenever you like.

What Makes a Contexto Word Hard?

Browse enough of the archive and patterns start to emerge in which words are tough. Abstract nouns — ideas, feelings, qualities — are usually harder than concrete objects, because their meaning-neighbours are fuzzier and there are fewer obvious stepping stones. Very common words can be sneaky too: they're used in so many contexts that lots of unrelated guesses rank moderately well, which muddies the trail.

Length isn't everything

Longer words aren't automatically harder. What matters is how tightly the word sits inside a clear theme. A long word with a strong category around it can fall quickly, while a short, everyday word with a diffuse meaning can resist for dozens of guesses.

Contexto Unlimited & Other Languages

Beyond the daily puzzle, Contexto also offers a practice mode that lets you play past or random puzzles back to back — perfect if one word a day isn't enough. Our archive pairs neatly with that: pick any day here, cover the answer, and treat it as your own practice round.

Available in several languages

The game is available in several languages, including Spanish and Portuguese, each with its own daily word and numbering. Our archive focuses on the English puzzle, which is the one most players searching for a "Contexto answer" are trying to solve.

Reading the Puzzle Numbers

Every Contexto puzzle has a sequential number, counting up from the very first one in 2022. That makes the number a handy shortcut: a higher number is always a more recent day, and the gap between two numbers is exactly the number of days between them. If you remember roughly when you played a puzzle, you can estimate its number and jump close to it in the list.

A built-in timeline

It also means the archive doubles as a timeline of the game itself. Scrolling from the newest entry down to the oldest walks you back through every day Contexto has run, one puzzle at a time.

What Past Answers Tell You

Looking across many past answers is quietly instructive. You'll see that solutions skew toward ordinary, everyday words rather than obscure ones — nouns you'd use in normal conversation appear far more often than technical jargon. That's reassuring when you're stuck: the answer is almost always a word you already know, not something you'd need a dictionary for.

Concrete and abstract

You'll also notice a healthy mix of concrete and abstract words, which is why testing both types early is such a reliable opening move. The more of the archive you review, the better your gut feel for what a plausible answer looks like — and that intuition is exactly what shaves guesses off your daily solve.

Tips for Browsing This Archive

• Use the month headings. Answers are grouped newest-first, so scan to the period you need rather than scrolling the whole list.
• Follow the puzzle numbers. Because numbering is continuous, a higher number is always a more recent day.
• Open a full page for context. Each entry links to that day's hints, difficulty, and closest words — not just the bare word.
• Practise, don't just peek. Cover the answer and work the hint ladder to sharpen your instincts.

Contexto and the Daily Puzzle Boom

Contexto arrived at the height of the daily-puzzle boom, when millions of people were building a quick brain game into their morning routine. What set it apart was its refusal to copy the letter-grid formula — by scoring meaning instead of spelling, it carved out its own niche and kept players coming back long after the initial craze cooled.

Why it's worth keeping

That staying power is why an archive matters. A game people play every single day generates a huge trail of puzzles, and having them organised and searchable turns a fleeting daily habit into a resource you can learn from. Every entry below is one day in that ongoing streak, preserved so you can revisit it any time.

As the archive grows, it also becomes a small piece of internet history — a day-by-day record of which words a hugely popular game chose, and how solvers around the world puzzled them out. We add to it automatically every day, so it only ever gets more complete.