New Delhi, June 9 -- If the Contexto game left you stalled somewhere between ENGINE and SHAFT this morning, you are in considerable company. Puzzle #1360, live for Tuesday, June 9, 2026, has produced some of the most tangled semantic detours of the month, pulling players deep into the vocabulary of locomotion, naval engineering, and aerial mechanics before revealing a word that, in retrospect, was hiding in plain sight the entire time.

The confirmed Contexto answer today is PROPELLER.

It is nine letters long, begins with the letter P, and ends with the letter R. If you reached words like SHAFT, GEAR, ENGINE, or SAIL during your session and found them ranking in the low double digits, you were threading the correct semantic corridor. The...