rebus

The effect of these lines, which reach back into the past while projecting far into the future, is that of a rebus, with the stunning phrase “the final whereabouts” offering one more breath of indirection.

In San Antonio, Texas, the final contest was a fresh and very complicated rebus puzzle.

In recent weeks, fans called out the game for inviting players to guess less familiar words such as “tapir” and “rebus.”

Baric’s entrancing collage, with an incessant penchant for psychedelic dissonance, is in itself a rebus — a puzzle that derives meaning from drawings and letters.

This newly updated version can also handle multiple rebuses, which is the rare occasion when multiple boxes in a puzzle hold two letters rather than one.