Questions tagged [rebus]
A puzzle that uses images and/or text, where solving the puzzle requires examination of the components' attributes.
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Originally not a movie
Can you tell what movie these images together represents? (the answer is a 5-letter noun)
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Odd stranger in town
Here's a simple little puzzle.
With the help of the image below, can you figure out who I am?
Hint:
Hint(second term):
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Simple language rebuses
What 2-word associates with this rebus? (actually not a rebus)
also: What word associates with this rebus?
Hints:
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God Only Knows The Answer
Can you identfy the song lyric hinted at here? Read from left to right, from the top.
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Not a music rebus
What is the 6-letter word that associates with this rebus?
Helpness Meter 1:
Helpness Meter 2:
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Another encrypted things
Inspired by encrypted fruits and vegetables, this simple puzzle encrypts a set of things having a common topic. So, please, figure out the topic itself (unlike the linked questions, clues are comma-...
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Encrypted Vegetables
Similar to the last puzzle, figure out the vegetables:
A 🤼 a->an,n->? $\boxed{8}-\tau$
Bag->Cab(🛄) 2021-1980
$(TO)_2+F$
⛽ K out$\times$ ??
🎨🖌️ I $\boxed{6}$ $F=kx$
🔃 🤰
🥶
$90$deg=$\...
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Encrypted fruits
Haven't been making a puzzle for a long time, this is a simple puzzle: figure the fruits with the given clues.
🚫 b->a,aeiou->? A
3-3 $[3,\infty)$
✋-i 🤔 Tesla
$^{12}X$ 🏃 $\boxed{^{4}}$ (🏞️ - ...
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What is the date displayed for the question mark?
Someone sent me these images. It's about the Moon for some reason. Anyways, here are the images:
And also that someone gave me a bonus:
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The Puzzling Free-to-Play Escape Room, naturally!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #50: Escape Rooms
Without revealing too much, knowledge of geek culture and/or superb Google skills are required for this puzzle.
Coming from an anime ...
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Rebuses with answers that start with “A”
I like rebuses, here are four of them.
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3.
4.
Good luck!
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PEBMSRMEE (all four)
Determine the two-part 14-letter answer by looking at these images below. Please try to figure out as much as possible before posting partials. Good luck!
HINT:
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What is a Prebus Word™?
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #48: Unusual tag mix
(Somewhat in the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.)
If a word ...
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A(nother) No-Sensa Test Question
Which one of the five options (A to E) fits in the blank space? Why?
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Density™ finally back from holiday!
Welcome back to the Density™ series! I had intended to make these more often, but then... well... 2020 happened. Anyway, I finally got round to creating the second puzzle, and perhaps it may hint at ...
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Born U.B but mostly known as
The goal is to come up with an answer with the help of the image below.
Together with the title, they should lead to the correct answer.
Hint1
Hint2
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Another Before and After Puzzle
Linked to A Before and After puzzle (2)
The answers will be at least three words which will be a combination of two seperate word phrases such as desribed in the links. Example
Diamond Ring and ...
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Parallel Trees On The Grass
Let the picture speak for itself and try to find the correct height of the tree marked with "?".
Hint
Hint2
Strong hint
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A themed B&A Puzzle
Inspired by DrD's original What is a "B&A" Puzzle?
This puzzle consists of 10 rebuses/visual clues that clue three-word phrases, where the first two words/numbers and the last two words/...
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Is there a mistake in this vast rebus?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words; that may be a slight exaggeration in this case, but the words in this case are timeless. I present to you a puzzle which is quite simple (albeit large) ...
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A Before and After puzzle (2)
This is a "B & A" puzzle linked to
What is a " B & A" puzzle?
It describes a before and after word chain which has a word in common. For example:
First Lady Gaga: Before ...
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What is a “ B & A” puzzle?
I think this type of puzzle format is a bit different from some you already have seen.
I call them B & A puzzles. After you solve them you will likely know what that means.
There are six seperate ...
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John is trying to solve this problem for his son . Can you identify the problem?
It is really easy I believe. The answer is wherever you look
Kinda my first attempt. Be kind and thanks for a great community
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Scientifically Themed Dingbat/Rebus Puzzles - Part 5
Previous ones here: part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
To reiterate, the media is reasonably well known, so if something has barely any views on YouTube, for example, it's probably not the intended answer. ...
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Scientifically Themed Rebus/Dingbat Puzzles - Part 4
The same basic idea (I have a lot of these): science-styled expressions that represent some popular media. Previously, some guesses were for things I would say aren't that well known, so keep in mind ...
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You are the admissions counselor at a school for magic
You are the admissions counselor at a school for magic. You are tasked with the job of sorting incoming students into one of various study-tracks provided at this prestigious institution. The way the ...
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Scientifically Themed Rebus/Dingbats - Part 3
The same idea as before: the "scientific" expressions represent some form of popular media. Enjoy. Part 1 Part 2
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Scientifically Themed Rebus/Dingbat Puzzles - Part 2
below are more rebuses with "scientific" expressions that represent something in popular media. Part 1 here. One of the questions in Part 1 has a link to a question here.
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Scientifically Themed Rebus/Dingbat Puzzles
Below I have created a list of a few "scientific" expressions that represent some form of popular media, with the type stated. Hope you enjoy.
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Truly unexpected thingy in a Radcliffe novel!
Ann Radcliffe was an English author in the Gothic style at the turn of the nineteenth century. Among the many interesting points in her remarkable career though, one little story is but poorly known. ...
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Defeating the deleteriousness of time
What thing I'm talking about?
Hint-1
Hint-2
Hint-3
Hint-4
Hint-5 (avoid)
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Not to mean no-brainer
What does this picture mean?
What are meant by different component of this picture?
What is indicated by the square inside the red bevelle?
Answer need to contain explanation.
Hint1:
Hint2:
Hint3:
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Ridiculous problem from an old maths textbook
There's a puzzling little problem I found in one of my old maths textbooks (Basics of Madthematics). In the middle of a whole bunch of normal problems on calculus and algebra and whatever, suddenly ...
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A sneak peek at July, 2034
This calendar page contains all the rebuses you’ll need
to help prepare for July, 2034.
Saying that reputedly evolved from a Welsh nursery rhyme
Saying that is also in a pop song’s lyrics
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Hmm… who can I possibly be?
Can you figure out which person the picture below, most likely, represent?
You're going to do some translation into another language(which language it is, you'll definitely notice :))
Hint1
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CaIendar Rebuses
Here are some caIendar-styIe rebuses.
The tags are the hint.
$\dfrac{\mathrm{MAY}}{\sf\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|c|c|}\sf Sun& \sf Mon&\sf Tue&\sf Wed&\sf Thu&\sf Fri&\sf Sat\\...
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Harry Potter Rebus Puzzles #3
Another set of Harry Potter word rebuses for you to solve!
Part 1: 11 Harry Potter rebus puzzles
Part 2: Harry Potter Rebus Puzzles #2
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Harry Potter Rebus Puzzles #2
Here are 4 more Harry Potter word rebuses for you to solve!
(11 more Harry Potter rebuses are posted here.)
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Mind Your Idioms!
Emoji Puzzle:
Mind your idioms!
Text version:
❌🎣 💀
👇 ⚫
🔄 ⏰
🥊 🛣
🔐🏠🏠
🔪 🗒
✅ ☔
🧽 ☀️
❌🌼🐓
🐳 ⏰
💨👆
👉 🍌 🍌
👴🏻 🔥
👉🔄 🔄👈
🍳 👱♂️
💪 🍪
👁 👁
👆☁️
🥵 💦
💦 👂 👂
☔ ☀️
❌ 🚀 ...
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Emoji Fruit n Veg
Fruit n Veg Emojis I made earlier today! Easy 'peas'y ) Hope you've all been getting your 5 a day this Easter )
[ps: I used screenshot to ensure proper emoji rendering]
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This Riley is out of order
My prefix is big in the Middle,
my infix is found at the end,
my suffix was once at the front,
my whole is what is involved.
Hint 1: My two anagrams, as a rebus
Hint 2: An alternative fix, ...
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Again, the scientific one!
I am looking for an answer that consists of two parts(____ ____).
The task is to somehow make sense of this word grid below with the help of the clue.
Hint
Hint2
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What work of art is it?
The next set of images is meant to represent a work of art. Can you find which? I give you the hint that exactly one of the images intentionally represents the opposite of what's in the work of art :)
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Another UNESCO World Heritage riddle
This puzzle was inspired by this
⛵😱$-$p 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳
😂Long
👑a⚽u
Ak➕
🔴🌲$-$🍃
💍 of 👦d🧄 $-$ 😋
❄️👀 🏰$-$ 🍑 $+$ C
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Emoji Puzzle - UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Emoji Puzzle - UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Created by myself during Covid-19 lockdown. I've posted an image because emoji rendering as text are not working too well.
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2020!(Not exactly though)
The images in the rectangle will help you replace the question marks with the correct numbers!
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Keep Your Head Up
Always remember this rule. What is the image above trying to say?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
