Questions tagged [rebus]
A puzzle that is portrayed using images and/or text, where solving the puzzle requires examination of the components' attributes (for instance, word position or color) or meanings (for instance, the name of a depicted item, or mathematical symbols to indicate operations on words or letters).
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ma(c + n + s) =?
This is an original puzzle. It may require some specific knowledge, but nothing that can't be easily acquired.
ma(c + n + s) = ?
To steer you in the right direction, there are no acronyms involved....
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Organically Overhauling my Occupation
After secretly assassinating a wealthy doctor in the countryside, I found myself with surplus funds. Naturally, the best possible investment is investing in oneself, so I boarded a plane and went out ...
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An Ailing Assassin
Since moving to the countryside, I've taken up a side job as an assassin. While camping out with a doctor, they told me that I had contracted an illness. However, since I didn't take any money with me,...
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Rebus puzzle - An awkward question
I'm from Scratch. We're planning on building the Scratch Space Academy. Many of my friends, such as Bi, Tri, Quadri, Penta, joined us too. When we got to the site, suddenly, a worker asked me an ...
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Guidelines or Theory for Rebus Creation?
I want to start the creation of educational rebuses for kids, the subjects are math, physics and languages. I have never done it before and would like learn how to create rebuses in general and for a ...
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What is the common verbal association? [closed]
｜｜ — S S S
Your answer should be one word to this problem.
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Piece de Resistance - King Deusovi, Flag this Blo*dy Post!
King Deusovi, Flag this Blo*dy Post!
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Queen King Jack
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Piece de Resistance - Seven Images Are Worth Digits
Seven Images Are Worth Digits
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven ...
Another colourful piece of work, ...
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Rebuses around the home
What words are being clued here? Can you find a household object not shown in any of the pictures?
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Piece de Resistance - Four Dots in a Line
Four - Dots in a Line
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five ...
Looking for the next challenge, you got rid of the ...
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Underworld Royalties
1. Mr. Edison's Travel Diaries
From Liverpool, James Edison traveled to Valencia. After watching the scheduled match, he then traveled to Italia and then Amsterdam where he promised to return in ...
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Stella and the president's secret notes
Jason Trump, president of the Untitled Statues Association, has left a notebook containing presumably important information lying around on his desk. Stella, his nosy assistant, takes a look only to ...
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🍩🔔🔥Scrambled emoji tale⚛️🎶🛒 #2️⃣
Note: If the emoji charactres 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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Who can it be…?
Who can it be…? Can you solve the rebuses?
Answer the following three questions:
Where does he/she live?
What is his/her name?
What is his/her job?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
Hint 4:
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Omni-Riley-Rebuses
Partially inspired by MetaZen’s Four Directions Series :)
North:
East:
South:
West:
This puzzle is a part of Ooohh, it all makes sense now! :D
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Thousands and thousands of words
This puzzle is part 25 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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Find the names of these countries
From the pictures below, can you find the names of the corresponding countries?
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5)
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Better than Rembrandt
This puzzle is part 13 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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Took a trip to a parallel universe, need help deciphering
I recently traveled to a parallel universe where the people wrote in a symbol-heavy language seemingly derived from English. While there, I attended various sorts of collegiate lectures to get a feel ...
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Contours of a clandestine nature
What does each of the answers describe? The answer is two words (11 + 4 letters).
#1
#2
#3
#4
Image credits:
1.2 Slashme, CC BY-SA 4.0;
2.1 AngMoKio, CC BY-SA 2.5;
2.3 ...
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Written every which way
Looking for the name of a country.
This puzzle is part of Recycling old answers.
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Numbers Brain Teaser
I've come across a strange brain teaser on one of those sheets with things like:
(man overboard)
So here's the puzzle:
0 - 20
10 - 3
14 - 29
96 - 72
1977
I've been trying to ...
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What does “seeivgehnt” mean?
A few weeks earlier, I thought of this rebus:
seeivgehnt
and it could be interpreted as:
What common phrase does it mean?
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Rebuses with an unknown symbol
Each picture features the same unknown symbol. What does it mean? Where would you place it fit in the final answer?
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No, I swear this isn't another regular rebus… introducing REBI RULES!
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These rebuses (rebi) require you to figure out what the phrase is saying. However, all the ...
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What can this rebus solve? How can this rebus be solved?
This is my first rebus, constructive suggestions are welcome. Enjoy!
Mistake: the diagonal of the green circle on the right should be from the top right to the bottom left instead of from the top ...
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Are there any ways to make a good Cryptic rebus?
How do I make a good "Cryptic rebus"?
Edit: It's a cryptic REBUS, not a text clue.
Note: Look at the tags.
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Say What Puzzle from Magazine
What words/phrase does the following rebus represent?:
+ DEEF
The answer is two words, each containing 8 letters.
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Rebus Puzzle Help!
Figured out the majority of the puzzle I think. There's just a couple things stumping me. Like the knights for one.
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5×5 image grid – What are we looking at?
The final answer is the name of a fictional character.
Image credits:
7: Rama, cc by-sa 2.0 fr | 11: Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2 | 13: Volatus, cc by-sa 3.0 | 15.1: ZngZng, cc&...
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Random dates turning into Christmas
These days, I saw a rebus on the net that shows a calendar of December, with some random dates turning into Christmas. I feel very puzzled about this. Can you help me?
Edit: I found that rebus on ...
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She has a unique personality
Each square is one word, and each row also has a one-word answer.
The final answer is what I tell everyone whenever my sister is coming to town.
#1
Image credits: 1. Mickayyy, CC BY-SA 4.0; ...
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To solve a simple heist
It happened by chance really. I was walking out from the bank when a man ran into me while rushing out. During our collision a piece of paper fell from his pocket.
I quickly picked it up and tried ...
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Giving back to the PSE Community: Rebus Connect Wall
Here comes a rebus connect wall dedicated to the PSE Community. You'll soon see why ;)
Steps:
Solve the 16 rebuses!
Group them into groups of 4!
You're done!
Disclaimer:
If anyone find this ...
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This picture represents one word. Which word is it?
This picture represents one word. Which word is it?
Source
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Ideological rebus
The answers form one word.
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#2
#3
#4
Hint for #3:
Image credits:
clue 1 #1: dtstuff9, CC-BY-SA 2.0
clue 1 #2: See Li, CC-BY-SA 2.0
clue 1 #3: Mingle Media TV, CC-BY-SA 2.0
clue ...
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Monoalphabetic Geometry
This is a second puzzle from the Monoalphabetic Equation series, you can check out the previous one here.
A set of letters has been replaced by $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$ and one symbol has been replaced ...
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Anime guess Riddle #7
Like in my sixth part, I'm searching for the name of an anime. There is no knowledge about this anime needed to solve it, but it helps! I hope you have fun :)
This time I made a picture riddle:
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Anime guess Riddle #6
Like in my fifth part, I'm searching for the name of an anime. There is no knowledge about this anime needed to solve it, but it helps! I hope you have fun :)
This time I made a rebus riddle:
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A rebus I've just watched
These two rebuses will give you a clue to what movie I've just watched. Can you guess it?
