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).
A rebus is a visual puzzle that presents the reader with an image containing a set of letters or pictures, for example:
FAREDCE
and asks the reader to determine what word or phrase is represented by the image. Usually the phrase uses pictures or letters to represent pieces of the word at a time.
In the above puzzle, the answer is red in the face, as the word RED can be found in-between the letters of the word FACE.
