Newer puzzle solvers usually ask the following questions the first time they encounter a rebus: Wait, what? You’re allowed to put more than one letter or word in a square? Yes, but only when the ...

The entry REBUS last appeared in the New York Times Crossword on June 18 in a puzzle by the constructor Ricky Cruz, and it has been in the Crossword 90 times. It is a fairly regular element in ...

It may have been because my niece Aurora was born in November 2011, but I’m not sure it came from anything other than a desire to combine a Schrödinger puzzle and a rebus puzzle into one.

Today we have a rebus puzzle featuring six exams squashed into single squares, as well as an additional pattern right after those squares: If you look at the letters right after the rebus squares ...

Cutting-edge artificial intelligence models such as OpenAI’s GPT-4V and Google’s Gemini struggle to solve clever wordplay puzzles involving both images and text. Rebus puzzles typically ...