The Daily Edition
Tomorrow's front page · one word unset
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The vowels are set — supply the 4 consonants
The Banner
The vowels are set — supply the consonants and go to press.
Banner #212026-07-25
How it is played
The Banner is the front-page headline column. Tomorrow's banner is set but for one word, and the compositor has already seated that word's vowels in the type. The consonant slots stand empty.
Read the headline, work out which word completes it, and set the missing consonants left to right. The vowels are fixed and skipped for you, so you are only ever supplying consonants — Y counts as one here.
When the slots are full, the press is pulled once. Every consonant right and the banner sets clean; a single wrong sort and it goes to press a misprint. One word, one pull, one headline a day.
Questions from readers
- When does a new puzzle come out?
- A fresh headline is set each midnight, in the paper's own timezone. There is one banner per edition.
- Is it free to play?
- Yes — free, with no account and no advertisements.
- Why do I only get one attempt?
- Because a headline is printed once. The vowels are given to you precisely so a single careful reading is enough; the puzzle is in the reading, not in narrowing down by trial.
- Are the headlines real?
- They are written in the register of a real front page, and the missing word is always ordinary — a word any reader of a newspaper already knows.
- Any advice on a hard one?
- Count the empty slots and read the seated vowels as a shape before you guess at meaning — the pattern usually rules out more than the sense of the sentence does.