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A German rebus, circa 1620. A rebus ( / ˈriːbəs / REE-bəss) is a puzzle device that combines the use of illustrated pictures with individual letters to depict words or phrases. For example: the word "been" might be depicted by a rebus showing an illustrated bumblebee next to a plus sign (+) and the letter "n".
Test your smarts with these rebus puzzles Rebus puzzles, also known as word picture puzzles or picture riddles, use images or words to convey a phrase or message, typically a common idiom or ...
May 4, 1987 (1987-05-04) – September 20, 1991 (1991-09-20) Concentration is an American television game show based on the children's memory game of the same name. It was created by Jack Barry and Dan Enright. The show featured contestants matching prizes represented by spaces on a game board, which would then reveal portions of a rebus puzzle ...
Detective Inspector John Rebus is the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus series. He was born in 1947 in Fife and left school at the age of fifteen to join the Army . After serving in Northern Ireland he applied to undergo selection for the SAS , but after a horrendous ordeal in training, left the army and joined the Lothian and Borders Police .
A rebus is a kind of word puzzle that uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. Rebus may also refer to: Inspector Rebus, a series of detective novels by Ian Rankin. Detective Inspector John Rebus, the protagonist in the Inspector Rebus novels. Rebus (2000 TV series), a television series based on the Inspector Rebus novels, airing ...
An American-style crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter ...
Mechanical puzzle. Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Burr puzzle; Word puzzle. Acrostic; Daughter in the box; Disentanglement puzzle; Edge-matching puzzle; Egg of Columbus; Eight queens puzzle; Einstein's Puzzle; Eternity puzzle; Fifteen puzzle; Fox, goose and bag of beans puzzle; Geomagic square; Globe puzzle; Graeco-Latin square; Gry; Happy Cube ...
An impossible puzzle is a puzzle that cannot be resolved, either due to lack of sufficient information, or any number of logical impossibilities. 15 Puzzle – Slide fifteen numbered tiles into numerical order. Impossible for half of the starting positions. Five room puzzle – Cross each wall of a diagram exactly once with a continuous line.