How to play
A doodle turns up half-finished. You type what you think it is, and the game tells you how close you got — not right or wrong, but how far away you are.
A round in twenty seconds
This is the game screen, playing itself: the doodle closing stroke by stroke, the guesses landing one at a time and the bar measuring the distance. Three rounds on a loop — when one is solved, the next drawing comes in.
The drawings are real — they come from the same archive the game plays from. Notice the round only ends on the exact word: “cat” lands at position 12, right next door, and still does not count.
The doodle arrives unfinished
The first strokes almost never give it away — a loose ear here, a crooked line there. With every hint the drawing moves along a bit, until it becomes obvious. Guessing early is worth more points.
Every guess shows the distance
The number beside the word is its position in a list of 85,239 words, sorted by closeness to the day’s answer. The colour sums it up: green is the immediate neighbourhood, orange is related, red is another subject entirely.
How scoring works
You start the round with 1,000 points. Wrong guesses are free: only a hint costs you, because only a hint gives part of the answer away. Guess as much as you like — you pay for help, not for trying.
- Right with no hintall 1,000 points, whole
- Each wrong guessnothing — guessing is free
- Each hint asked for−130 points
- However badly it goesnever below 100 — getting there is always worth it
- Five rounds a daythe sum is your score for the day
The streak
Played today and yesterday? The streak goes up. Skipped a day and it drops back to one. Everything stays on your device — no sign-up, no password, and nothing you play leaves here.
Common questions
What is Rabisko?
A daily guessing game. A hand-drawn doodle appears half-finished and you work out what it is, with unlimited guesses. Five doodles a day, the same ones for every player.
How do I know if I am close?
Every guess gets a position in a closeness ranking. Position 1 is the answer. The lower the number and the greener the bar, the closer you are.
How do hints work?
Each hint draws one more stroke of the doodle, and the first one reveals the answer’s family (animals, food, tools and so on). Every hint costs points.
Is it free? Do I need an account?
It is completely free and asks for no sign-up. Your streak and your best score are saved on your own device, not on any server.
Where do the drawings come from?
From Google Creative Lab’s Quick, Draw! Dataset: millions of doodles drawn by real people around the world, published under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
When does the puzzle change?
At midnight, your time. Each day brings five new doodles.