Contexto is one of the nerdiest word games out there. The game tasks you with finding the word of the day by showing how close other words you guess are to it. This is measured by analyzing thousands of texts to find similarities between words.
How to play Contexto
You play Contexto by typing a word into the text box–anything that comes to mind. When you submit your guess, it will appear under the text box with a number next to it and a bar that can be red, yellow, or green. The lower the number of the word you guessed is, the more it’s related to today’s Contexto solution. The higher it is, the worse your guess is.
That’s why if you make a good guess, shown by a low number and a green color bar, you should keep guessing similar words–for example, if “internet” is green, I would try “connection” or “computer.”
Conversely, if it’s a high number and red, try something totally different. Using the same example, if “internet” was red, I would try “dog” or “eyes.”
Contexto 671 hints (July 20)
The solution to the July 20 puzzle, Contexto 671, is related to hardware and electricity. Sure, “electricity” came in much lower than I thought, but in retrospect, I believe it should be higher. Anyway, we’ll get to the answer in a bit. I reached “hardware” after finding success with “computer,” and “tool.”
Given the success of “tool,” I made a few guesses at specific handyman tools, but today’s answer has more to do with something everyone has in their house or a type of wrench. “Plug” came in at number two–what’s something on your wall you would plug a plug into? Bit obvious now, isn’t it?
Contexto 671 answer (July 20)
Today’s solution to Contexto 671 is SOCKET. You can get close if you guess “plug,” “connector,” “adapter,” “adaptor,” or “thread.” I was very surprised to see “electricity” down in the 300’s as I thought there would be quite the correlation between that, “power,” and today’s Contexto answer–”plug” is at two, after all!
Past Contexto answers
Here are the answers to recent Contexto puzzles. You can use the game settings to replay them if you want.
- Contexto 670: TOMATO
- Contexto 669: ROUTE
- Contexto 668: WAY
- Contexto 667: DIVE
- Contexto 666: SHOUT
- Contexto 665: MEETING
- Contexto 664: TICK
- Contexto 663: KUDO
- Contexto 662: SHELLFISH
- Contexto 661: TECHNICIAN
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