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Silicon Valley’s top AI models are terrible at rebus wordplay puzzles

Rebus puzzles provide wordplay challenges involving both images and text, and they can confound Silicon Valley’s most powerful AI models

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Rebus that works out as Beethoven

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Test your brain with this fiendish set of museum-themed puzzles

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15 mind-bending scientific riddles to enjoy solving with your family

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15 mind-bending scientific riddles to enjoy solving with your family

F3HB7N Underwater view of two technical divers using rebreathers device to locate shipwreck, Lombok, Indonesia

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How spiral search patterns and lateral thinking cracked our puzzle

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Test your wits against this epic set of interlinked space puzzles

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Puzzle #101: Can you work out the area of the red triangle?

Puzzle #101: Can you work out the area of the red triangle?

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Puzzle #100: Can you work out how to reach your flight on time?

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Puzzle #98: Can you solve a dog breeder's canine conundrum?

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Puzzle #95: What piece should you chose to build the tallest tower?

Puzzle #95: What piece should you chose to build the tallest tower?

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Puzzle #82: Dogmandoo

Can you help the reporter work out the rainy details he forgot to write down in the press conference? Plus the answer to puzzle #81 "A bridge top far"

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How to solve the New Scientist cryptic crossword

How to solve the New Scientist cryptic crossword

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M. C. Escher, Day and Night (1938)

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Escher's Journey: there's more to this artist than his maths

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Bob Walker tribute

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Test yourself against these superpuzzles from Japan

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