Questions tagged [rebus]

A puzzle that uses images and/or text, where solving the puzzle requires examination of the components' attributes. Typically wordplay combining the images/text will yield a word or phrase.

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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 7): The Oracle Rambles On and On

This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2023. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door > Hadn't ...
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College Athletes

This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #16: Restricted Title: xkcd 2000-2500. Solve the following 10 sub-puzzles, then use the information you've found to solve the metapuzzle: Puzzle 1 ...
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What's in the picture?

Find what is depicted on this picture. Hint 1: Hint 2:
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Not once, but twice

What's the answer to this puzzle? Text version of the numbers under pattern: ...
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A puzzling QR code

What common phrase is encoded in the QR code below? Hint 1: Hint 2: Note: I realized that the original puzzle was only really solvable for me due to my search history in constructing the puzzle. ...
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For Memorial Day

I was asked to bring something specific for our big Memorial Day Barbecue. I was told to bring an item which is depicted by the following six pictures, though I'm guessing I shouldn't take things at ...
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Python Conundrum: Guess The Song

Python Conundrum: The Series The key to the puzzle: The puzzle: ...
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What we commonly refer high definition as

What is the two word answer to the puzzle below? 16777215+262709978263278+3435973836 = (4) 281474976710655+1240612796065921481376886589594988270+967140655691703339764940 = (12) ...
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E Rebus Unum – a picture sequence puzzle

This is part 42 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own. Dear Puzzling, Today I have been taking it easy. You might even say it has been a walk in the ...
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Roman Empire goes to space

Here is the binary part for convenience: 01110010 10000000 10011111 10110111 Find what celestial objects has Roman Empire visited. Hint 1:
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Futuristic navigation

This is a 3-part puzzle. Parts can be solved out of order, but, in the end, parts must be put together in order they appear (1, 2, 3) to solve the whole puzzle. Parts are independent from each other. ...
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An engineer, a mechanic and an athlete walk into a bar

...to exchange puzzles about the thing they talked about the other day and have a drink. The engineer showed these numbers: 2, 8, 14, 2, 99 2, 4, 0, 0, 1 The ...
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Python Conundrum 2: Guess The Place

Python Conundrum: The Series The key: The puzzle: ...
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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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A Trivial Pursuit #08 (Entertainment 2/4): Names

This is part 8 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. Solve the fourteen rebuses below to find some names, ...
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Three rebus puzzles related to mythology

I am stuck on these rebus puzzles - does anyone know how to solve them? I tried "star ring" for the 2nd one and I'm stuck on the 1st and the 3rd ones.
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A delicious country puzzle

Why is this puzzle delicious? Give me the 5-letter answer I'm looking for. ...
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Techno-Culinary Brain Teaser: Unravel the Code in the Kitchen

The answer is one word. The rebus:
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Guess the movie using the image

The image: Do not overthink things.
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Could you find the way in this maze of rebuses?

Below there is a maze that is made out of small rebuses. And when I say small, I mean really small: every rebus is only 18x18 pixels! All rebuses can be solved independently from each other, and ...
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A famous sentence

What is the famous sentence I am looking for? Hints: A deeper hint:
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Vivaldi's favorite

I am looking for a single word, that is missing. Everything you need to know, is right here: ...
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Please tell me where I am

Can you tell me where I am? A simple Rebus
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Two favorites combined: A Crypto Sudoku

Below is just a plain old sudoku. However, the clues given are a little bit different than usual. It's your job to use them properly. Note: Not every letter makes the same digit, nor every digit is ...
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Seen from above

I'm looking for an image that represents this puzzle. Can you tell me what that image is?
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What is this: G D F?

What does the following represent?
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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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Stealin' Bill - Enigmatic Puzzle

Clues: [contextual images] W Instructions: Name That Actor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ a _ _
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Working with numbers

I met my old friend. When I ask him what you are working on now, here's his answer: 0 1 2 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 8 9 What is his job?
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Why can't I see you

Can you guess the above phenomenon?
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Can you guess the phrase?

What is the phrase shown here? Please ignore the background.
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A Burning Puzzl .

Final Answer ✅ Can you solve this burning puzzl...?
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 5): Christmas Shopping

This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 100 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door > What do we ...
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A unique rebus+

I'd call this a rebus+ (complexity, visual components, lateral thinking). The answer is a letter. Short story of the problem: I was happy, I felt I finally invented something solvable, easy, and good. ...
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Halloween Magic

Halloween is coming, and the little skeleton is learning a new magic trick. Find the hidden key and solve the hidden code in the image. The code is 4 digits. Hint 1: Hint 2: created by Abai, ...
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Add a line and turn this into a sport

Add a straight line to this visual and turn it into a sport.
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A magical place, for sure

What can you buy in the place that I encrypted here?
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A Quick Rebus Puzzle

(Awarding prizes to runners-up) And the winner is... (drumroll) ... where is our winner? (Click to enlarge.) Note: The flavor text is for flavor only. This is a rebus puzzle. So, What does this ...
9 votes
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Which of these is the answer?

This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #2: IQ Puzzle Parody I've been playing around with my favorite IQ puzzle app, and I got to this 5x5 that's completely stumped me. Can you figure out ...
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One Another - Rebus puzzle

Solve the following rebus puzzle: ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER ONE ANOTHER See also (Rebus with Dracula) and (...
8 votes
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🧟🐺⚡Scrambled emoji tale 🔥🔮🕊️ #️4️

This is "Scrambled emoji tale #️4️". This time, this one should be fairly easy. The story 📖 below ⬇️ was sliced ✂️ in a number of parts and scrambled 🔁. 💬 From the fragments below, can ...
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Emoji Story - bad jokes edition

For devices that cannot display all the emoji, Android screenshots are included with each. ✊✊🚪😕❓👻👻❓🚫😢 ❓☠️💲🌽🦌👂 🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️🍻🚶🦆 ❓6️⃣😱7️⃣7️⃣🍴9️⃣ ❓👃🚫📏👞 ❓❌🐈🐦🥕
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One More Holiday Rebus!

I've made three of these so far... but here's another one! The toughest one so far.
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No Christmas presents until you solve this!

This morning I received an email from Santa Claus himself. He wanted to tell someone about the problems he’s facing and chose me. When I read about his problems I was worried because I like my ...
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Yet Another Holiday Rebus

I'm back with another holiday rebus!!! This one is slightly more confusing, but you guys will figure it out, I'm sure.
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Another Holiday Rebus

What's the meaning of this rebus? Another very good message to share. Slightly harder this time!
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What's This Holiday Rebus?

What is the meaning of this rebus? Just in time for the holidays! A good message to share.
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Peak, in a hurry

What's the two-word (13 letters) phrase I'm looking for? Hint 1:
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🍩🔔🔥Scrambled emoji tale⚛️🎶🛒 #️2️⃣

Note: If the emoji characters of this question and its answers are borked, doubtful and what you can see are mostly boxes (like □ or �), I took a screenshot for you. Here is a story. It has 12 parts ...
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❤️🐖🤯Scrambled emoji tale☠️💰😊 #️1️⃣

Note: If the emoji characters of this question and its answers are borked, doubtful and what you can see are mostly boxes (like □ or �), you could try to install this extension if you are using Chrome ...

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