Past Contexto Answers: Yesterday & Full List

About This List of Past Contexto Answers

This page lists every past Contexto answer from game #0 to yesterday, newest first. Yesterday's word waits on the ticket at the top; every older answer is grouped by month, the search box tells you instantly whether a word has been a Contexto answer, and recent days link to a page with the game's ten closest words.

Each word comes straight from Contexto's own API — the same “give up” call the game makes when you reveal an answer — so the list is the official record, not a transcription. The game numbers are official too. The English version started on September 18, 2022 with game #0, and the number has gone up by exactly one every day since, which is how each Contexto answer here is matched to its date.

The newest row is always the game before today's. For today's word, with hints that walk you in from the top-10 closest words, use Contexto answer today.

Contexto Milestones

A few landmark games from the archive, for anyone who's been playing since the beginning:

Finding Any Game by Number or Date

Because the English game started at #0 on September 18, 2022 and has never skipped a day, a game number and a date are two ways of writing the same thing. Add the game number to September 18, 2022 and you get its date; count the days from that date to any later day and you get its number. That's how every row in the list above is dated.

A few reference points make the arithmetic easy. The first game of each new year so far:

Some answer sites drift a game or two out of step over time, which is how you end up with the same word listed under two numbers. Deriving every date from the game's own start date, and every word from the game's own API, keeps the two columns locked together.

How We Check Every Answer

Each word in this archive was requested from the game itself: the same call Contexto makes when a player gives up returns the secret word together with its distance, and a word is only accepted when that distance is zero — the game's own definition of the answer. For recent games we also store the ten words the game ranks closest, which you'll find on each day's page.

The archive updates itself every day. Once today's game is over, it becomes yesterday's ticket at the top of this page, joins the list and is counted in the statistics — no manual copying involved, which is where most errors in hand-made answer lists come from.

What Past Contexto Answers Tell You About Tomorrow's Word

Reading a few hundred Contexto answers in a row reveals a clear house style, and it's worth knowing before your first guess:

• Everyday nouns dominate. Most answers are concrete things you could point at or picture — a classroom, a claw, a pear, a magician. Abstract words do turn up, but far less often.
• Mid-length words win. The average Contexto answer is about six letters, and nearly three in four have between four and seven. Very short answers are rare; anything past ten letters is a curiosity.
• Repeats are almost unheard of. In more than fifteen hundred English games only two words have come back — GLASS (#17 and #842) and FIREWORK (#776 and #1325). You can safely skip anything that's already been a Contexto answer — the search box above checks in a second.
• C and S start the most answers. That reflects English vocabulary more than any design choice, but it's a handy tiebreaker when you're choosing between two equally warm guesses.

The statistics section above recalculates all of this every day from the full list of Contexto answers, so the numbers always include yesterday.

How to Use the Archive to Get Better at Contexto

Contexto ranks guesses by meaning, using a language model trained on real text: words that appear in the same contexts as the answer score as “close”. The quickest way to build intuition for that is to study finished games:

1. Open a recent day's page. Recent Contexto answers link to a page listing the ten words the game itself ranked closest — a ready-made picture of how the model groups ideas.
2. Notice the associations, not the synonyms. The nearest words are often things that sit next to the answer in a sentence, not dictionary equivalents. A body part's neighbours are other body parts; a fruit's are other fruits and kitchen words.
3. Replay an old game. The official site lets you choose a previous game number, so pick one you haven't seen, play it cold, then compare your path with the closest-word list.
4. Keep your openers broad. Category words — animal, food, tool, place, feeling — locate the right region of meaning before you start narrowing.

Why Some Contexto Answers Feel Impossible

Every player has a game that sat at rank 400 for fifty guesses. Looking back through the archive, those games usually share one of three traits:

• The answer is a word you use but rarely think about — LASH, MILL, CLAW. Everyday, but not the first noun that comes to mind in its field.
• The answer bridges two topics. A word like FIREWORK sits between celebration, explosives and night sky, so guesses from any single topic stay lukewarm.
• The wrong form is ranked far away. Contexto scores each form of a word separately, so a warm “build” can hide a red-hot “building”.

When you're stuck, open a past game with a similar feel from the list and read its closest words: you'll see the jump the model makes between topics, and you'll start making it yourself.

Contexto Answer Yesterday: Time Zones Explained

A new Contexto game goes live at midnight Brasília time (UTC−3). That's 10 or 11 p.m. on the US East Coast and early morning in Europe, which is why “yesterday's Contexto answer” can mean different games depending on when and where you played. The ticket at the top always shows the game before the current one; if your puzzle number is one lower, it's the first row of the table next to it.

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