Who among us is not familiar with puzzles? These entertaining encryptions are familiar to everyone, young and old. In puzzles, words are encrypted using a sequence of pictures and various symbols, including letters and numbers. The word "rebus" is translated from Latin as "with the help of things." The rebus originated in France in the 15th century, and the first printed collection of rebuses, published in this country in 1582, was compiled by Etienne Taboureau. Over the time that has passed since then, the technique of composing rebus problems has been enriched with many different techniques. To solve a rebus, it is important not only to know what is drawn, but also to take into account the location of the drawings and symbols relative to each other, and this is achieved with practice. There are some unspoken rules by which puzzles are composed, and it is easier to solve them using the same rules, and the rules are as follows:
General rules for solving puzzles
A word or sentence in a rebus is divided into parts, which are depicted as a picture or symbol. The rebus is always read from left to right, less often from top to bottom. Spaces and punctuation marks are not read. What is drawn in the pictures in the rebus is read in the nominative case, usually in the singular, but there are exceptions. If several objects are drawn, an arrow indicates which part of the entire image is used in this rebus. If the riddle is not just one word, but a sentence (a proverb, a catchphrase, a riddle), then in addition to nouns it contains verbs and other parts of speech. This is usually specified in the task (for example: “Guess the riddle”). A rebus must always have a solution, and only one. The ambiguity of the answer should be specified in the conditions of the rebus. For example: “Find two solutions to this puzzle.” The number of techniques and their combinations used in one rebus is not limited.
How to solve puzzles from pictures
Name all objects sequentially from left to right in the nominative singular case.
Answer: trail experience = tracker
Answer: ox window = fiber
Answer: eye of the face = outskirts
If an object is drawn upside down, its name should be read from right to left. For example, “cat” is drawn, you need to read “current”, “nose” is drawn, you need to read “dream”. Sometimes reading directions are shown with an arrow.
Answer: sleep
Often an object drawn in a rebus can be called differently, for example “meadow” and “field”, “leg” and “paw”, “tree” and “oak” or “birch”, “note” and “mi”, in such cases, you need to select a suitable word so that the rebus has a solution. This is one of the main difficulties in solving puzzles.
Answer: rava oak = oak grove
How to solve puzzles with commas
Sometimes the name of the depicted object cannot be used in its entirety and it is necessary to discard one or more letters at the beginning or end of the word. Then a comma is used. If the comma is to the left of the picture, the first letter of its name is discarded; if it is to the right, the last letter is discarded. How many commas are there, so many letters are discarded.
Answer: ho ball k = hamster
For example, 3 commas and a “feeder” are drawn, you only need to read “fly”; “sail” and 2 commas are drawn, you only need to read “steam”.
Answer: umbrella p = pattern
Answer: li sa to por gi = boots
How to solve puzzles with letters
Such letter combinations as before, above, on, under, behind, at, y, in, as a rule, are not depicted in rebuses with a picture, but are revealed from the corresponding position of the letters and pictures. Letters and letter combinations with, to, from, from, by, and are not shown, but the relationships of letters or objects, or direction are shown.
If two objects or two letters, or letters and numbers are drawn one inside the other, then their names are read with the addition of the preposition “in”. For example: “in-oh-yes”, or “in-oh-seven”, or “not-in-a”. Different readings are possible, for example, instead of “eight” you can read “seven-v-o”, and instead of “water” - “yes-v-o”. But such words do not exist, so such words are not a solution to the rebus.
Answers: v-o-yes, v-o-seven, v-o-lk, v-o-ro-n, v-o-rot-a
If one object or symbol is drawn under another, then we decipher it by adding “on”, “above” or “under”, you need to choose a preposition according to its meaning. Example: “fo-na-ri”, “pod-u-shka”, “over-e-zhda”.
Answers: fo-na-ri, pod-u-shka, na-e-zhda
If behind a letter or object there is another letter or object, then you need to read it with the addition of “for”. For example: “Ka-za-n”, “za-ya-ts”.
Answer: for-i-ts
If one letter lies next to or leans against another, then read with the addition of “u” or “k”. For example: “L-u-k”, “d-u-b”, “o-k-o”.
Answers: onion, oak
If a letter or syllable consists of another letter or syllable, then read with the addition of “from”. For example: “iz-b-a”, “b-iz-on”, “vn-iz-u”, “f-iz-ik”.
Answers: hut, bison
If another letter or syllable is written over the entire letter, read with the addition of “by”. For example: “po-r-t”, “po-l-e”, “po-ya-s”. Also, “by” can be used when one letter with legs runs over another letter, number or object.
Answer: Poland
Answers: belt, field
If an object is drawn, and a letter is written next to it and then crossed out, this means that this letter must be eliminated from the word. If there is another letter above the crossed out letter, this means that you need to replace the crossed out letter with it. Sometimes in this case an equal sign is placed between the letters.
Answer: manhole
Answer: raspberry z Mont = lemon
How to solve puzzles with numbers
If there are numbers above the picture, this is a hint in what order you need to read the letters from the name of the object. For example, 4, 2, 3, 1 means that the fourth letter of the name is read first, then the second, followed by the third and first.
Answer: brig
The numbers can be crossed out, which means you need to discard the letter corresponding to this order from the word.
Answer: skate ak LUa bo mba = Columbus
Quite rarely, the action of a letter is used in rebuses - runs, flies, lies; in such cases, the corresponding verb in the third person of the present tense must be added to the name of this letter, for example “u-runs”.
How to solve puzzles with notes
Often in puzzles, individual syllables corresponding to the names of notes - “do”, “re”, “mi”, “fa”... are depicted with the corresponding notes. Sometimes the generic word "note" is used.
Notes used in composing puzzles
Answers: beans, minus
Hello everyone!
How about a mental workout? Do you like to solve crossword puzzles and think about logic problems in your free time? People began to turn complex things into fascinating things a long time ago by drawing abracadabra and intricate diagrams. Puzzles to decipher hidden words, or in common parlance - rebuses, are a whole art that lives by its own rules of composition and solving.
Do you know how to solve puzzles or encrypted riddles for you - a dense forest? It turns out that there are techniques and techniques here that allow you to “turn on your brain.” So, let's get acquainted - a mysterious puzzle.
Lesson plan:
Where did the rebus come from?
A little history. Logical training of the mind came to us from France. There they were happy to solve them back in the 15th century; the Prussian King Frederick himself was not averse to flexing his brain.
The word is translated from Latin as “with the help of things.” And indeed, it is by using pictures of all sorts of objects, letters and numbers that puzzle lovers make riddles.
In 1582, the French even published the first collection, which introduced the whole of Europe to entertaining logic in pictures. In our native Russia, puzzles appeared only towards the end of the 19th century - we had no time to solve problems! Thanks to the Rebus magazine, they became one of the entertainments for the inhabitants of that era.
It turns out that the modern Russian rebus is already more than a hundred years old, and it is still just as popular, and improving the techniques used in “hide and seek” is an endless and limitless matter. New riddles today - a wide variety of “taste and color”, for those who are too smart and simpler.
What types of puzzles are there?
Words in logic riddles are encrypted in different ways.
The simplest drawn puzzles usually hide one or at most two words, they can be solved in “one-two-three”, but problems with three or more elements are much more difficult to solve, but even more interesting.
You can even write down sayings and proverbs, phrases and quatrains with rebuses! Imagine Pushkin's letter from Tatyana to Onegin in the form of pictures! That would be interesting! And how incredibly beautiful it would look!
And puzzles will be an excellent, beautiful and interesting addition to your school research projects. For example, like or .
Solving the unsolvable, or general rules for puzzles
If you combine all the rules for solving logical puzzles together, you get a special set that helps you choose the right path to the solution.
- Each hidden word is divided into parts, depicted by a picture or using signs. These parts are usually read from left to right, but it happens the other way around and even from top to bottom.
- The hidden lonely word is usually a noun in the singular nominative case. There are exceptions to the rules, but hints are given for this.
- When a rebus is a whole sentence, then, of course, not only nouns live there, but also verbs, and adjectives, in general, other parts of speech. For such puzzles, the compilers specifically make instructions like “guess the proverb.”
- The rebus must have one solution. If there are several of them, a reference is also made about this.
So, armed with a piece of paper and a pencil, we write out each guessed image, follow all the instructions for them, and add up the resulting parts. Voila! You have found the correct answer!
Now let’s go over the main types of puzzles and how to solve them.
Pictures with letters and numbers
There are several techniques that allow you to easily solve such problems:
Drawings with commas and signs.
Riddles with commas and pictures, as well as using other signs, they are also solved according to their own rules:
Letter puzzles
Often here the letters are drawn from different angles - inside each other, near, one under the other - all these are techniques that allow you to hide the hidden word:
Try your strength!
Have you studied the instructions for solving the puzzles? Now put the theory into practice! Here's a proverb:
How's it going? I'm waiting for answers in the comments!
Well, since we have worked hard, we need to have a good rest! Jumble! For all! We look and smile)
With this I say goodbye to you, I’ll also go and tell the puzzles and do exercises for the mind!
Always yours, Evgenia Klimkovich.
Puzzles for children- a puzzle in which a word is encrypted using pictures, letter combinations and signs, has been popular for centuries. Puzzles, which first appeared in France in the 15th century (the first printed collection dates back to 1582 and was compiled by Etienne Taboureau), improved over time and became an extremely exciting game. You can solve them either alone or in a fun company, arranging competitions. The puzzle will not let you get bored even on a gray, rainy day when you can’t go out with friends. Solving puzzles for children is fun and exciting - worth a try!
What puzzles exist
There are a wide variety of puzzles: mathematical, with numbers, with notes, complex and many others. We have prepared an excellent selection of puzzles for children.
How can you solve a rebus?
Knowing the rules for deciphering a rebus, you can solve even a very complex riddle. The word hidden in the puzzle is divided into several parts, which can be shown in the form of pictures. In order to guess the word, you need to read the names of the images in the nominative case, and then combine them into one word. So, for example, if the first picture shows a trace, and the second shows a person conducting some kind of experiment, you should read: trace + experience = pathfinder.
Puzzles can be more difficult. In such puzzles, one of the pictures may be turned upside down, and then its name must be read backwards. Commas can further complicate the puzzle, which, if you don’t know what they are for in the puzzle, make it unsolvable. When a comma is placed before a picture, it indicates that you do not need to read the first letter of its name. The number of commas indicates how many letters need to be discarded. A comma or several of them after the picture indicate unnecessary letters from the end of the word.
Having become comfortable with simple puzzles, it is interesting to tackle more complex puzzles. In them, a crossed out letter may be drawn above the picture, which means that it should be excluded from the title of the picture. When there are numbers above the picture, then only the letters corresponding to them in the word are read (example: if there are numbers 1, 3, 4 above the picture of an apple, you need to read yalo). When there is a crossed out letter and an uncrossed out letter above the picture, you need to replace one with the other in the word. In some puzzles, the letter that needs to be replaced is not crossed out, but simply an = sign is placed between it and the one that should be in its place.
Numbers may also appear in the rebus if part of the word is a numeral. In this case, pictures or letters can be placed before or after the number. The puzzle is solved in the same way as a puzzle with pictures, only instead of the name of the image, a number or number is read.
When a rebus looks like letters or letters and numbers inscribed within each other, then it should be read by adding the letter B to the beginning of the word.
In the most complex puzzles, syllables can be represented by notes. In this case, you will need to understand which note is shown in the picture and read it in accordance with its sound.
Having familiarized yourself with the rules for solving puzzles, you will be able to not only solve any puzzle without much difficulty, but also learn how to compose the puzzle yourself.
- The name of everything that is depicted in the pictures in the rebus is read only in the nominative case.
- A picture in a rebus can have more than one name. Example: leg and paw, eye and eye; or the image may have a general or private name (bird - general name; rooster, dove, seagull - private name).
- Commas (whether upside down or not) indicate that the outermost letters should be removed from the word. Words first if commas are before the picture, or from the end of the word if commas are after the picture. The number of letters to be removed corresponds to the number of commas.
FOREST - Crossed out letters - such letters should be removed from the word. If crossed out letters are repeated, they are all removed.
CASH REGISTER - Crossed out numbers indicate that the same number of letters in a word should be removed.
- The equal sign between letters (A=E) indicates that all A's need to be replaced with E. The equality 1=E indicates that only the first letter in the word should be replaced.
FORCE - The arrow between the letters (E -> B) also indicates the corresponding replacement of letters.
- The numbers 1,2,7,5 above the picture indicate that from this word you need to take letters numbered 1,2,7,5 and compose them in the order in which the numbers are located.
TANK - An upside-down design indicates that the word should be read from right to left. (CAT - TOK)
- The arrow pointing to the left, shown above the picture, indicates that after the word has been deciphered, it must be read backwards.
CAT - When a fraction is used in a puzzle, it is solved as "NA" (divide BY). If the rebus uses a fraction with a denominator of 2, then it is solved as “FLOOR” (half).
SHELF 
FLASHLIGHT - When composing puzzles, notes are used. To determine a note, the only thing that matters is on which line the black dot (note) is located.
- Inside the letter “O” there is the syllable “DA”, it turns out V-O-DA, i.e. "WATER". It can also be read as "YES-V-O". The option that makes sense is selected.
WILL - When the pictures are located on top of each other, it is read as “ABOVE”, “ON”, “UNDER” (depending on what makes sense).
PRESENT 
A PINEAPPLE - A letter consisting of other letters is read as the preposition "IZ". For example, from the letter “B” we make the letter “A”, then we get: from “B” “A” (IZBA). IZBA
- A letter placed on top of another letter is read as "PO". FIELD
- A letter depicted behind another letter is read as the preposition “FOR” or “BEFORE”. The option that makes sense is selected.
HARE - The sign “+” means the preposition “K” (Note 2+3 can be read: Add Three to Two or Three add to Two). You should choose the option that makes sense.
Window 
cocoon - A double arrow between numbers means that the letters under those numbers need to be swapped with each other.
Paw - The crossed out "=" sign between pictures should be read as "NOT" (Example: "C" is NOT equal to "G").
Snow
Well, now are you ready to solve any puzzle?
To learn to read and understand puzzles, it is worth understanding what they are. A rebus is an encrypted word, usually in pictures. Often, they contain letters, numbers and commas, which indicate that some letters in the word should be skipped.
Letter on letter
Sometimes in puzzles letters are drawn, placed in an unusual angle. For example, the picture shows a large letter O, and in it there are two small letters - LK. Here you should understand that you need to describe the drawing in words, mainly prepositions. That is, the letter O contains L and K. If we remove the unnecessary from this description, we get: v-O-LK. However, be careful. It may be the other way around. For example, a large letter A, in which three letters are depicted - DRO. In this case, you should first name the internal content of the letter, and then just name the letter A. It turns out like this: the letters DRO in A, that is: DRO-in-A.
Sometimes one letter is depicted above or on another. Then you also need to read the picture, using prepositions: on or under. For example, the letters are depicted in two levels, in the form of a fraction - in the “numerator” - OD, in the “denominator” - R. It should be read in -R-OD. Or in the “numerator” B, and below – AL. It should be read backwards: under-V-AL.
How to correctly solve letter puzzles? It happens that the letters move towards each other - then they use the preposition with, sometimes they hide, peeking out from behind each other - they use the prepositions for and before. For example, the letter A, with which NI slides, turns out to be s-A-NI. Or KO, followed by N, reads: for-KO-N.
There are other ways to show a letter as an object by using prepositions.
What can the numbers in the rebus mean?
How to solve puzzles with numbers? Sometimes there are numbers in puzzles. There may be several reading options here. Sometimes the number is pronounced just like its name. Indeed, in some words there are the syllables “three”, “two” or the number “one hundred” (pro-sto, ma-tri-tsa, ry-dva-n). The second option may mean that the letters in the word should be numbered and rearranged depending on the location of the numbers. Or take from this word only those letters whose numbers are indicated. Usually in this version, the numbers are written above or below the picture. For example, the picture shows a fox. Below it are written the numbers - 3, 2, 1, 4. The letters l-i-s-a should be rearranged in a different order: s-i-l-a.
Features of puzzles
- Often in a rebus you can see commas drawn correctly or upside down, and several in a row at once. This is the difference between the rebus and other riddles. These commas are generally considered to be letters that should not be pronounced. For example, the picture shows a bullfinch, and three commas are drawn after it. This means that the last three letters of the word – ir – do not need to be pronounced. What remains is snow. If commas take away the initial letters, they are written in the usual way, if the last ones are written upside down.
- How to solve puzzles with crossed out letters? If the letter above the picture is shown crossed out, it means that it needs to be excluded from the word.
- If there are two letters above the image and an equal sign between them, then you need to replace one letter in the word with another.
Other symbols are also possible in puzzles: notes, Roman numerals, and even Latin alphabet. It all depends on the artist’s imagination and his horizons. Sometimes it is very interesting, even for an ordinary person, to decipher such puzzles. It is up to the reader to decide whether to solve them online or look for riddles in books. However, of course, experience in solving such riddles makes solving them much easier.