Rebusly is a free daily rebus puzzle drawn from real news headlines. A new hand-crafted visual puzzle posts every morning — decode the image, name the phrase, then read curated articles on the story behind it.

How often does a new puzzle come out?

A new Rebusly puzzle posts every morning. Each day covers a different newspaper section: Front Page (Sun), Business (Mon), Op-Ed (Tue), Entertainment (Wed), Sports (Thu), History (Fri), and Culture (Sat).

Is Rebusly free to play?

Yes. Rebusly is completely free. No account, no subscription, and no ads.

Rebusly · Decode the puzzle. Discover the news.

The payoff

Every Rebusly unlocks the news.

Solve the rebus. Read the stories. Four curated articles, drawn from a different section of the paper every day.

Front Page News Business

Op-Ed Entertainment

Sports History Culture

Solve the rebus. Read the coverage. Every day.

From the Front Page

Four Sources · The Full Picture

For forty minutes, the Artemis II crew vanished behind the Moon, farther from Earth than any human in fifty years and with no way to call home. When they emerged, the photographs began to arrive.

NASA · Free Artemis II Lunar Flyby — First Images Released NASA released the first photographs from the seven-hour pass over the lunar far side, including a rare in-space total solar eclipse and craters no human has ever seen.
CNN · Free Artemis II Takes in Unprecedented Views in Historic Moon Flyby The crew set a new human spaceflight distance record at 252,756 miles from Earth, passed behind the Moon in a 40-minute communications blackout, and witnessed Earthrise from the far side.
The Planetary Society · Free Artemis II: NASA's First Crewed Lunar Flyby in 50 Years A full mission overview of the 10-day, 695,000-mile journey and what it sets up for Artemis III, which aims to land humans on the Moon's south pole by 2028.
NASA · Free Flight Day 7: Crew Makes Long-Distance Call, Begins Return After the historic flyby, the crew completed the first return trajectory correction burn and called the ISS astronauts from deep space before the journey home.

Why Rebusly is different

A game that opens the news.

Most daily games are a subscription with a puzzle attached. Rebusly runs the other way around. The puzzle is the front door, and it opens straight onto the day's news, with no subscription behind it.

It stays free the whole way down. Every puzzle Rebusly has run sits in the archive at no cost, no account, and no paywall where other games keep theirs. Solve each morning and your streak grows. Share your result and it travels as small shapes, never the answer, and it reads the same whether or not you see color. Visual is the open slot on the daily-game shelf, and the daily game you solve by reading a picture is this one.

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