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REBUS PUZZLES IN ENGLISH

Zeynep KURTULUŞ & Ayşegül SARIKAYA (7th Monsters)

Let’s talk about rebus in English. In Turkish, games consisting of representing words or word
groups with letter numbers and pictures are called rebus puzzle. We can give examples of English
version.

Example:

The answer is donkey.
We can give examples like this information about rebus puzzles. Rebus was discovered by John
Harrington around 1768. Rebus is a creative game that gives visual clues to a puzzle to solve the
puzzle.
Pictures must be understood and deciphered to arrive at the correct answers to the jigsaw puzzle
consists of a category of picture clues.
There is a question that everyone is asking. Is rebus a mind game? Yes, rebus is mind game. It gained
popularity around the word in the 2000s.
While visual brain games support the right lobe of the brain, logical brain games support the left lobe
of the brain. Rebus is a type of puzzle that exercises both the right and left lobes of the brain.

foot+ball=football hand+some=handsome

We have a rebus tournament held by the Maths department for 7th grades every year.
Let’s give the rebus puzzles a shot.

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