Past puzzles
Last updated: 2026-07-26
Life happens, and some days the daily puzzle slips by. The archive in Hot & Cold is the fix: step back into any recent daily word game you missed, or return to one you already cleared to see if you can do it in fewer guesses. Every past puzzle is the exact board everyone played that day — same secret word, same 14,828-word ranking by meaning, 🧊 freezing to 🔥 blazing — just waiting for a fresh attempt. If you searched for a way to replay a previous daily or catch up on the ones you missed, this is the page you wanted.
Catch up on the days you missed
This is specifically the archive of past daily puzzles — not endless rounds, which pull a brand-new random secret each time. The server keeps daily puzzle records for roughly the last 30 days, so there's always a rolling window to work through. If you were travelling, busy, or simply forgot, you can open the days you skipped and knock them out one by one. Because these are real dailies, each one plays exactly as it did on its release date, so a puzzle you catch up on today is no easier or harder than it was for anyone who played it live.
- Replay any recent day. Pick a date from the window and play that day's secret on demand.
- Retry your wins. Already solved it? Go again and chase a tighter solve or a higher score.
- A rolling archive. Records stick around about a month, so the oldest days gradually roll off as new ones arrive.
- The real board. Same secret and same heat ladder as the day it ran — nothing about the puzzle is watered down.
Great for streaks and for practice
The archive rewards two very different moods. If you care about your run, catching up on missed days keeps that consecutive-day mindset alive and stops a single busy afternoon from nagging at you. If you'd rather train, replaying a puzzle whose answer you already know is oddly useful: you stop guessing blind and start noticing how the ranking clusters words by meaning, which words come back 🌶️ hot within roughly the top 24, and how to climb from ❄️ cold to 🎯 solved with intention rather than luck. Scoring works just like the live daily — a finished round is worth up to 1,000 points, your first 4 guesses are free, and up to 3 hints are available if you want a nudge. The full ruleset lives on how to play, and strategy tips break down how to solve in fewer moves.
When you've cleared the backlog and want something without a calendar attached, the endless word game gives you unlimited fresh rounds, and the live daily word game is always waiting when today's puzzle rolls over at midnight UTC.