Extended Rebus Puzzle
Posted by freeschool on January 11, 2008
You and your kids may be familiar with Rebus Puzzles (aka Frame Games or Word Picture Puzzles), which are word puzzles that use pictures or words to represent words or parts of words.
A common example would be:
HEAD
HEELS
…. which translates to “head over heels.”
Additional examples of Rebus puzzles:
- NIEHS Brainteasers and Riddles
- Fun with words
- Rebus from the 1700’s
- Bifaloo
- Google “rebus puzzle” for more – there are millions of these things.
Anyhow, I always liked these but found them to be a bit tricky sometimes. Today I ran across this extended version:
The answer to this puzzle is here.
via Futility Closet
