Hard1 player·10–30 min
Semantle & Contexto
Guess the secret word using AI-powered semantic similarity — no letter clues at all.
Semantle and Contexto are daily word puzzles that replace Wordle's letter-position feedback with semantic similarity scores. Guess any word; the game tells you how conceptually close it is to the secret word, based on a trained word-embedding model. There is no letter feedback whatsoever — your clue is a similarity ranking or score. Unlimited guesses are allowed. The challenge is that "close" in meaning can feel completely unpredictable.
How similarity scoring works
- Semantle shows a similarity score (e.g. 23.4) where 100 is the answer itself, and nearby words in the model's "meaning space" score higher. A score above 30–40 is typically very close.
- Contexto ranks your guess by position — if it says "483" you are the 483rd closest word to the answer in the model. Lower numbers mean closer. The answer itself is position 1.
- Both games use word2vec or similar neural embeddings trained on large text corpora — relationships are statistical, not logical.
Strategy tips
- Start with broad category words — common nouns like WATER, FOOD, TIME, PERSON, WORK. A high score on any of these narrows the semantic domain immediately.
- When you find a high-scoring word, explore synonyms, related concepts, and sub-categories of that word — the answer is likely in that neighbourhood.
- Abstract concepts and emotions (LOVE, FEAR, POWER) often produce surprising high scores when you're nowhere near guessing them — follow the gradient rather than your intuition.
- Track your scores. If WATER scores 15 but OCEAN scores 40, the answer is likely a maritime or water-related word, not a general liquid one.