Rules for solving puzzles. How to make and solve puzzles? Rules and examples How to solve puzzles with letters and a dash

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A rebus is a puzzle in which words, phrases and even short stories are hidden.

This entertainment began its journey in France in the 15th century. In those days, in a hidden, allegorical form, commoners ridiculed the wealthy class. Over time, the attitude towards the rebus has changed. A rebus began to be called a pun, enclosed in a play on words. Soon, drawings began to appear in puzzles. The year of publication of the first printed collection of puzzles can be considered 1852. The author of the collection is Frenchman Etienne Tabour.

In the 16th century, puzzles became widespread in other European countries. Drawn puzzles proved to be so popular that professional artists began to make them.

In Russia, puzzles appeared only in the middle of the last century and were then largely imperfect. A special magazine "Rebus" was published.

Rebus - "A riddle in which the desired word or phrase is depicted by a combination of drawings, figures, letters or signs" S.I. Ozhegov. Currently, the word "rebus" is often used in a broader sense. It has become a household word to refer to everything intricate, mysterious and incomprehensible.

Rebus alphabet

In the "rebus alphabet", as in a kaleidoscope: a lot of intricate letter combinations, numbers and numbers, signs and other objects - drawings. The peculiarity of the rebus letter is that the words in it are denoted by images of various objects, “things”. Solving the rebus is not difficult - what is drawn is what you need to read.

Punctuation marks in puzzles are usually not shown; when deciphered, they are restored in meaning. They are not shown because they can be understood differently. A comma - a punctuation mark - is easy to confuse with a rebus comma - a sign for excluding a letter from the name of the picture. Sometimes there are exceptions. The question mark is usually placed where it is needed.

Not respected in puzzles and scale. Therefore, a "cat" can be larger than a "lion" and vice versa - an "elephant" is smaller than a "matchbox". To correctly solve puzzles, you need to know the "rebus alphabet" and the rules for solving.

Rules for solving puzzles

Rule 1The objects and living creatures depicted in the drawings are most often (with rare exceptions) read as words in the nominative case and the singular. Sometimes the desired object in the picture is indicated by an arrow.

Rule 2If the picture is drawn upside down, read the word backwards. For example, a cat is drawn upside down - we read the current. There are objects (a knife, a pencil, a barrel, a chain, a wheel) that, no matter how depicted, do not look “upside down”. In such cases, commas help us, complementing the picture depicted “upside down”. By such commas, it can be established that the hidden word must be read from right to left, that is, “upside down”: the trail is an aport.

Rule 3. Commas after the picture indicate how many letters to remove from the end of the word denoting what is shown in the picture. For example, a goat is drawn with two commas after it - we read KO. Commas in front of the picture indicate how many letters to remove at the beginning of the word denoting what is shown in the picture. For example, an elephant is drawn with a comma in front of the picture - we read LON.

Rule 4Numbers may appear above or below the picture. Each digit is the number of a letter in a word: 1 is the first letter of the word, 2 is the second letter, 3 is the third, and so on. A certain set of numbers below or above the picture says that you need to take only these letters and read them in the indicated order. A crossed-out number means that the given letter should be omitted. For example, a horse is drawn and the numbers 2.1 are below it - we read OK.

Rule 5The equal sign between letters means replacing a certain letter (or combination of letters) of a word with another letter (or combination of letters). The equal sign can be replaced with an arrow. The action of replacement is indicated in the third way - the letters that are replaced are crossed out, and substitutes are written above them. For example, a mole is drawn, and next to it are the crossed out letters RO and the letter I on top - we read KIT.

Rule 6Letters can be depicted inside other letters, above other letters, on the surface of other letters, under and behind them. In such cases, it is necessary to understand in what spatial relationships the depicted letters consist.

Rule 7Letters can be drawn on the surface of other letters. For example, a large letter H is depicted, and small I are scattered across it - we read PONY (although you can also read it as IPON, NISI or IZIN). Or in "E" - "r", "a". The drawing reads: "Faith".

Rule 8In puzzles, a special type of drawn letters is also used, which are given the outlines of moving or stationary figures. For example, sitting, lying, running, etc. A verb is added to such a letter - a figure: sits, lies, runs, etc.

Rule 9In rebuses there are so-called hidden prepositions (on, before, in, at, by, to, from, over, from, from, behind, under). When reading a picture with them, prepositions corresponding to the picture should be added. For example: under “B” al (basement), in “O” l (ox) or before “A” h a (transmission), etc.

Rule 10Numerals are used in puzzles. For example: 40 A (magpie), 100 g (stack), 7I (family), distance (distance).

Rule 11The crossed out letter speaks for itself, that is, when reading a given word, do not take the crossed out letter into account, do not read it. If instead of a crossed out letter there is another letter, this word should be read with an uncrossed out letter, but with a newly written letter. A crossed-out number above or near the figure indicates that in this word such a letter should not be read.

Rule 12The numbers next to the picture are a sign of permutation of letters, indicating that in this word you need to rearrange the letters in the order in which the numbers follow one after another (from left to right)

The techniques listed above can be combined with each other. Knowing these basic rules will help to solve this or that puzzle without much difficulty.

Let's look at some rules with examples:

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Get "horns"(removed two letters from the word “road”).

Commas to the right of a word (or an image that replaces it) mean the removal of the corresponding number of letters to the right.

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It turns out "thief"(removed three letters from the word “crow”).

To delete letters inside a word, they are written over the image and crossed out.

neither

It turns out the "motor"(removed “neither” from the word “monitor”).

S = P

To replace a letter, use the equality: “c \u003d p”, “c” in the word must be replaced by “p”.

It turns out "linden"(replaced “s” with “p” in the word “fox”).

4 1 2 3 5

To change the order of letters in a word, numbers are placed above it, which determine the new order.

It turns out "rod"(replaced the order of the letters in the word “thunderstorm”.

An image turned upside down means that the word should be read from right to left.

It turns out "current"(read from right to left the word "cat").

When encrypting prepositions, the image outline structure is often used.

It turns out "water"(the letter "o" is "yes").

It turns out "pillow"(under the letter “y” is “shka”).

It turns out "lanterns"(“pho” is on “ri”).

It turns out "hare"(behind the letter “i” is the letter “c”).

It turns out "science"(on the letter “u” is “ka”).

If a letter consists of another letter, then they read by adding "FROM".

B ik ik ik

B B ik ik ik

B BB B ik ik ik

B B ik ik ik

B Bik

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Izba physicist

One of the main difficulties in solving puzzles is the ability to correctly name the object depicted in the figure and understand how the fragments of the picture relate to each other. It is necessary to take into account the presence of synonyms, the letter "fraction" can be read in different ways. In addition to knowing the rules, you also need ingenuity and logic.

Such entertaining tasks develop a child's visual memory and train spelling, teach to be focused, and develop attention. All this contributes to productive learning activities. “Attention is, according to K.D. Ushinsky, the only gate through which everything enters our consciousness.” This is the first step of composure.

Hello everyone!

How about a mental warm-up? Do you like to guess crossword puzzles and think about logic puzzles in your spare time? People have been turning complex into fascinating for a very long time, drawing abracadabra and intricate schemes. Puzzles for deciphering hidden words, or in the common people - puzzles - this is a whole art that lives according to its own rules for compiling and unraveling.

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 the brain”. So, let's get acquainted - a mysterious rebus.

Lesson plan:

Where did the puzzle come from?

A bit of history. The logical training of the mind came to us from France. There they were solved with pleasure back in the 15th century, the Prussian King Frederick himself was not averse to straining his brain.

From Latin, the word is translated as "with the help of things." And indeed, it is with the use of pictures of all kinds 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 by the end of the 19th century - we once had problems to solve! 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 over a hundred years old, and it is still popular, and the improvement of the used methods of “hide and seek” is an endless and limitless affair. New riddles today - a wide variety of "taste and color", for too smart and simpler.

What are the puzzles?

Words in logical riddles are encrypted in different ways.

The simplest drawn puzzles usually hide one or two words at most, they can be solved in “one-two-three”, but tasks of three or more elements are much more difficult to solve, but even more interesting.

Rebuses can even write down sayings and proverbs, phrases and quatrains! Imagine Pushkin's letter from Tatyana to Onegin in the form of pictures! That would be interesting! And what a masterpiece it would look!

And puzzles will be a great, 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 a solution.

• Each hidden word is divided into parts, depicted by a picture or with the help of signs. These parts are usually read from left to right, but it happens that vice versa 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 an indication like "guess the proverb."
• The puzzle must have one solution. If there are several of them, a reference is also made to this.

So, armed with a paper sheet with a pencil, we write out each guessed image, follow all the instructions for them, add the resulting parts. Voila! You have found the correct answer!

And now let's go through the main types of puzzles and how to solve them.

Pictures with letters and numbers

There are several methods that allow you to easily solve such problems:

Drawings with commas and signs.

Riddles with commas and pictures, as well as using other characters, 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 the order of guessing puzzles? Now put the theory into practice! Here's a proverb for you:

Well, how are you doing? Waiting for answers in the comments!

Well, since we did a good job, you need to have a good rest! Yeralash! For all! look and smile)

On this I say goodbye to you, I’ll also go tell fortunes, I’ll do exercises for the mind!

Always yours, Evgenia Klimkovich.

Sometimes in the magazine there is a riddle with pictures, letters and numbers, as well as punctuation and equal signs. This is a puzzle. Compared to crosswords or crossword puzzles, not many people can guess this riddle. The question arises: "What do the commas in puzzles mean?" The difficulty is that the decision rules are never printed. And if there is a certain instruction, then it will most likely be incomplete. But in fact, everything is not so difficult.

What is a rebus

The Latin word rebus means "things". The catchphrase "not with the help of words, but with the help of things" very accurately describes the parlor word game. For the first time, it became known in France, when a collection of these riddles was published. Its compiler is E. Tamburo. The first puzzles did not differ in a wide palette of guessing tools, but in subsequent years they were significantly enriched with various techniques.

Since then, musical, literary, mathematical and theatrical puzzles have appeared. The principle is the same for everyone: an encrypted concept is composed in parts from several other words, which are represented by pictures or pantomime. In the board game of puzzles, there are commas that are interspersed with images.

There are certain principles by which encryption is written. To solve the riddle, you should know what the commas mean.

Puzzles have their own laws

In short, commas denote letters that need to be removed from a word. They can stand on one or the other side of the picture. Since the text is read from left to right, the presence of a comma before the image means that the first letter is removed. A comma after it indicates that the last letter is not taken into account. There may be several characters. In this case, several letters are excluded from the word encrypted with the image.

What does the comma at the top of the picture mean? Another rule says that the rebus is read from top to bottom. So, we discard the initial letter. By analogy, it is already clear what the comma in the rebus below means - discarding the final letter.

There are also inverted signs. This means that letters from the end of the word are discarded. When inverted drawings are encountered, the word is read backwards. If the picture also contains a comma drawn upside down, then the final letter is removed from the word read backwards.

For example, under the image of a cow there are two inverted commas. Under them is a lion, and under the lion the letter is "A". Solution: first, remove the last two letters from the word "cow", we get "koro". Now add "left". The word "queen" is obtained.

Multiple commas

Sometimes there are not one, but two commas in the rebus. What does this cipher mean? Some people think it's quotation marks. However, it is not.

For example, you need to guess the following riddle: there are two commas before the picture of an elephant on the left. Words are read from left to right, which means that the first two letters will be removed. If you subtract the first two letters from the word "elephant", you get "he".

Another option: before the picture of the elephant on the left is the syllable "mu". After the picture on the right are two commas and the letter "and". Solution: subtract the last two letters from the word "elephant", it turns out "sl". We add "mu" to the beginning, and "and" to the end, we get the word "muesli".

But what if you need to make a rebus yourself? Suppose you need to choose an encryption for the syllable "he". Of course, you can use different methods. But if you remember what the commas in puzzles mean, then everything will become easy. In Russian, there are enough words consisting of several syllables. To get the one you need, you don't have to worry about inventing items. And for example, take a picture with a gramophone and put nine commas on the left. The task is complicated by the fact that you first need to guess which word is encrypted by the picture. Perhaps not everyone knows what a gramophone is.

A picture with a chameleon and six commas on the left can also be imagined as a rebus.

What does the comma at the top of the picture mean?

This means that it is necessary to discard the first letter of the word, since the rule for reading rebuses always applies: from left to right and from top to bottom. For example, there is a rebus consisting of two pictures - a bucket and a book. Above both pictures are three regular non-inverted commas. The solution is this: we subtract the first three letters from the words "bucket" and "book". We get "ro" and "ha", that is, "horns".

Another example: a drawing of a snake with a comma above it. There is an indication: "i" = "l". The solution will be this: we subtract the first letter from the word "snake", it turns out "meya". Now we change the letter "i" to "l". It turns out "chalk".

Examples with a chameleon or a gramophone, which were considered above, could be written as follows: put the required number of commas above the picture with the image of the word in order to take them away from the words "gramophone" and "chameleon".

When the signs are under the picture

It happens that commas are at the top or bottom of the picture. What does the comma below mean in the rebus? Don't let that bother you. When reading from top to bottom, the comma above the picture shows that the first letter of the encoded word is discarded. And the one below the image indicates the latter. If there are several commas, several letters are removed.

Let's say we have an image of a hammer. There is an indication: "t" = "k". This means that the letter "t" should be replaced by "k". There is a comma below the picture. Solution: we replace the letter, we get the word "milk". We remove the last - "milk" comes out.

Inverted punctuation mark

Sometimes there is an inverted comma in puzzles, what does the removal of the last letter mean in this case? To complicate the task, this sign, standing upside down, may not be at the end or at the bottom of the picture. If the rebus is made up of several images, each of which is supplemented with commas, the following principle will help not to get confused.

If there is an ordinary comma, then the letters at the beginning of the word are removed, and if it is inverted, then the letters from the end of the word are removed. In the case of encryption of a word from several pictures and commas, ordinary commas will appear in front of each picture, and inverted ones after. Thus the parts of the puzzle are separated. No matter how many commas stand between the drawings, by their position one can understand where the cipher of the previous syllable ends and the encryption of the next one begins.

For example, there are two images: raspberries and an umbrella. There are two regular commas before the raspberry, then two inverted ones. After the umbrella is another upside down. There is an indication: "z" = "m". We decide in order. The whole rebus is written in a line, which means we read from left to right. We take away from the word "raspberry" two letters at the beginning and two at the end, it turns out "whether". This is the first syllable. Now at the word "umbrella" we change the letter "z" to "t", it turns out "mont". We delete the last letter and get "mon". This is the second syllable, and all together it will be "lemon".

Vertical puzzles

There are also vertical riddles, where there are punctuation marks between the pictures. What do the commas in puzzles mean if they are located one above the other? Some of them, if written on a line, take up too much space. Let's say one picture shows a field, the other shows a road. After the field there are two inverted commas, before the road - two more, but already ordinary, and after the road one inverted. This puzzle will not fit on the page, but it cannot be transferred. What to do?

The method of writing the rebus from top to bottom will help out, in which the pictures will be placed one above the other. Under the one with the field, we put two inverted commas, above the road - two ordinary ones, and under the road - inverted. We solve the rebus: we subtract the last two letters from the word "field", we get "by". This is the first syllable. We subtract the first two and one last letters from the word "road". We get the "horn". This is the second syllable. Together - the "threshold".

How to make a beautiful rebus with commas

To record the rebus gracefully, do not stretch it too long or high. For example, you can use this method: take the middle part of the word and find a picture for it. Let it be a syllable that is easy to find in other words. Cutting off extra letters with commas from above and below, we get the desired syllable. Now you just need to add the missing letters before the picture and after it, and the work is ready.

Example: you need to encrypt the word "deer". First, we choose the middle syllable, which we will represent with a picture. In this case, it is easier to choose the syllable "le". It is part of many words, but for beauty we will choose "beehive". It is square, it is easy to place it in the middle of the sheet. We put commas at the top and bottom of the picture with the beehive. Above - normal, below - inverted. So we designate the syllable "le". Now on the left in front of the picture we put the letter "o", and after - the letters "n" and "b". All together - "deer".

Try this board game. It develops logic and increases vocabulary. After a while, you will notice that you have become better at understanding the composition of words.

Rebus is an exciting puzzle game that develops ingenuity, logic and the ability to find the unusual in a picture. These puzzles will be of interest to both adults and children, as some of them have a very high level of difficulty. They are used in schools to teach a child to quickly use data, process it and arrange it in the right position. Often a rebus of letters or words has several spellings and you need to choose the most appropriate sound, which allows you to develop memory and vocabulary. Only the child who has enough words in his memory so that he can recognize and understand them can take up the solution of puzzles. Simpler tasks are given to children from the second grade, when they already know the alphabet and numbers well, a younger child simply does not understand how to solve it. You need to start with picture tasks, they are considered simpler, letter puzzles and note puzzles will be more difficult. They will only be possible for a child with special knowledge.

Rebuses have a rich history, they appeared even before writing. After all, it was with the help of pictures that ancient people tried to convey to others the meaning of some events. Nowadays, puzzles are used as entertainment and a game that will captivate the whole family. In order to solve them, you need to remember a number of rules in order to understand what is read and in what order.

What can be a rebus?

A rebus is a picture that can be depicted:

• letters;
• numbers;
• arrows;
• images;
• fractions;
• notes;
• commas and dots.

They can be upside down, be in each other and in different positions in the picture. All such puzzles are divided by difficulty level. The simplest ones can be read very easily, for example - "Bumblebee" and "Table":

More complex pictures will have to think about.

And there are those for which you will have to be patient with a pen and paper.

But for all of them there are certain rules by which puzzles are solved. If you figure it out, even the most complex proverb puzzles will succumb and become understandable.

How to read a rebus?

The rebus itself is a whole picture, before you start solving it, you need to understand if there are any special rules for reading it. If they are not, then the words or phrases are read as usual, from left to right, but if they are, then this must be taken into account. There are two main characters:

Arrows from right to left indicate that a word or several words should be read the other way around: from right to left.

Rebus solving rules

The image itself includes letters, numbers and pictures that must be read and combined in a certain order. Therefore, they look not only at what is drawn, but also how it is done. If there is a picture in the rebus, they select a word that matches it, here you need to turn on the imagination and remember that sometimes it can be a jar, and sometimes what lies in it. All other elements are "read" in order, subject to some rules:

Numbers, signs and commas

Very often, the image is accompanied by commas, equal signs, minus signs, or a row of numbers. This tells you what to do with the letters that make up the word. All actions can be considered from the pictures below, on which a “flower” is drawn, which must be turned into a “current”.

If there are commas near the picture, you need to see where they are and count them. When they stand before a word, the first letters are subtracted, if after it, then the last, in the amount that there are commas.

Sometimes crossed out letters are written near the picture, this indicates that they should be removed from the word.

And when “=”, “+” or “-” stand side by side and additional letters or a picture, this indicates that you need to do this action with the word. Add letters either before the word or at the end. But sometimes "+" or "-" indicates that you need to add "to" or "from". This must always be remembered.

The numbers next to the word indicate in what order and what letters to take.

Large numbers and signs

Large numbers and signs drawn in a rebus the size of the main pictures are perceived as a word or action. When they are present, different letters or syllables are added to the word.

• a large "+" indicates that you need to add "to", "s" or "and";
• a large "-" indicates that you need to add "from";
• the number adds those letters that are in the word that means it.

For example, there are three pictures above: P + C = rice, ok-mol = hammer, 100l = table.

How to solve puzzles from letters?

Sometimes the rebus consists of only one letter, which is drawn in a different form and position. These include the same decision rules:

• if the letter is drawn in the letter, then it is added: "in";
• if the letter is above the letter, it is added: “above” or “on”;
• if the letter is under the letter, “under” will be added;
• if letters are drawn from letters, this should be indicated by adding "from".

For instance:

In the letter “O” we have “rona” written, that is, it must be read as “crow”.

The letters "C", "D" and "T" took hold of the handles together, so the letter "and" is added between them - and we get the word "sitting".

This suggests that you need to add "on" to the sentence.

The letters “TKE” sit in the letter “E”, that is, it is read as “in + e + tke” - “branch”.

It remains only to connect all the words and get: the crow is sitting on a branch. Letter puzzles allow you to develop your imagination well and learn how to quickly compose words.

How to solve puzzles with notes

Rebuses with notes are designed for those children who are engaged in music and it is not difficult for them to determine which note is drawn in the picture. To unravel, take seven notes and use their names.

this is the note "do" and "m", read as "house".

And this is “fa” and “salt”, that is, “beans”.

Such puzzles help to quickly remember how notes are written and quickly, subconsciously use them.

How to solve complex puzzles from pictures, letters and numbers?

Puzzles are divided according to the level of difficulty. They mean not only words, but also phrases. If the picture seems too complicated, do not be shy to take a pen and paper and break it down into its components. When you need to guess not one word, but a proverb or a well-known phrase, the author usually writes about it. Take, for example, the puzzle:

and try to figure it out. We remember that rebuses are read from left to right like words in a book, if there are no additional icons, and there are none in this rebus, then it’s worth starting on the right.

The letters “la” move out from the letter “E”, that is, the whole picture must be read as “c + e + la”, oh, we get the first part: “village”

here we see that the letters “ha” are holding the letter “m” in their hands and we get the following combination “m + y + ha”. Of course, you can still read "u + ha + m", but, in my opinion, the fly is still better.

This is a large jar of delicious jam, since there are no comma numbers and signs next to it, this indicates that the whole word must be used in its entirety, without changes.

And this indicates what is being added - “on” or “above”. In our case, “on” is more suitable.

As a result of the fact that the complex picture was decomposed into simple elements, we got a simple rebus of the words: village + fly + jam + on. As a result, we get the phrase: "A fly sat down on jam."

In each case, it is worth turning on the imagination and learning how to quickly use the rules - and then complex puzzles will not be so difficult. The main thing is to always be careful and not lose any elements.

In November 2007, I wrote . In one of the rebuses, a word was made with a mistake: “lunAhod”. In another one, the verb “pulled up” was guessed, and even adults could hardly guess it. It is clear that the compilers of the rebus violated certain rules. And what?

We love to solve puzzles - charades, rebuses, chainwords, crosswords, labyrinths, cryptograms, riddles, comic puzzles. Solving them, it doesn’t hurt that we think about what rules they are made up of. Who, for example, taught us that a chainword is the same crossword, only it needs to be solved “in a circle”? Yes, we knew this in childhood even earlier than the multiplication table! And they knew that the inverted picture in the rebus means: "Read the word backwards."

These are all unwritten guidelines for those who guesses puzzles.

But are there any rules are drawn up different types of puzzles? For example, the rules for compiling a rebus?

I tried to formulate the rules for compiling a rebus, based on examples of puzzles of varying complexity and simply based on reasonable logic. And that's what happened.

REBUS RULES

Introduction

The word "rebus" comes from the Latin word "res" - "thing".

The essence of the rebus- a riddle formulated in the form of a picture (or photograph) in combination with letters, numbers, signs, symbols, figures.

Solve the rebus- means to "translate" everything that it contains into letters that make up a meaningful word or sentence.

General provisions

1. A rebus guesses a word or sentence (usually a proverb, saying, aphorism, quote).
2. The number of individual elements included in the rebus (drawings or photographs, as well as letters, numbers, signs, symbols, figures, and so on) is not limited.
3. To compose the rebus, special techniques are used that distinguish it from any other “riddle in pictures”.
4. These techniques can be used both independently and in various combinations (combinations) with each other.
5. The number of techniques used in one rebus and their combinations (combinations) is not limited.

Rebus Requirements

1. The rebus must have a solution, and, as a rule, one. The ambiguity of the answer should be specified in the conditions of the rebus. For example: "Find two solutions to this puzzle."
2. The guessed word or sentence should not contain spelling errors.
3. If one word is guessed in the rebus, then it should, as a rule, be a noun, moreover, in the singular and in the nominative case. A deviation from this rule must be specified in the terms of the rebus (for example: "Guess the participle").
4. If a sentence is guessed (proverb, aphorism, etc.), then, naturally, it can contain not only nouns, but also verbs and other parts of speech. In this case, the conditions of the rebus should contain the appropriate phrase (for example: "Guess the proverb").
5. The puzzle should be drawn from left to right.

Basic techniques for compiling a rebus

1. flipping"upside down" drawing (or photograph), sign, symbol, figure (hereinafter - picture, unlike letters and numbers) serves to indicate that the word guessed with the help of a picture should be read backwards.
2. Use of commas(also inverted commas) to the left or right of the picture serves to indicate that a certain number of initial or final letters should be removed from the word guessed using the picture. Wherein:
   • the number of commas corresponds to the number of letters to be deleted;
   • commas to the left of the picture indicate the removal of the initial letters of the word;
   • commas to the right of the picture indicate the removal of the final letters of the word.
3. Placement of a letter or several letters to the right of the picture serves to indicate that this letter (several letters) should be added at the end of the guessed word.
4. Strikethrough letter and placing next to it or above it another letter serves to indicate which letter should be replaced by which in the hidden word.
5. Putting a mathematical equal sign between two letters is used to indicate the replacement of one of these letters with another.
6. Applying an arrow that goes from one letter to another, also serves to indicate the appropriate substitution of letters. Also, the arrow can be deciphered as a preposition "to". For instance: the word "juice", then - an arrow pointing to the right, and the letter "y"- all this is read like this: "piece".
7. The placement above the picture (or above the symbol, above the combination of letters) of a horizontal arrow pointing to the left serves to indicate that after decoding the word or part of it must be read backwards.
8. Placing a row of numbers above the picture 1, 2, 3, 4 (and so on) is used to number the letters in the hidden word (the number 1 means the first letter of the word, the number 2 - the second, and so on). Wherein:
   • changing the order of the numbers serves as a hint: "Change the order of the letters in the hidden word." For example, the numbers 3, 2, 1, 4 above the picture of the saw show that in the word "saw" the first and third letters must be rearranged; answer: "linden";
   • the use of numbers in fewer numbers than letters in the hidden word serves as a hint that only the specified number of letters should be selected from the hidden word. For example, there are two numbers above the picture of a saw: 4, 1. This means that only two letters need to be selected from the word “saw”: the fourth and the first, and put them in that order; answer: "ap";
   • the use of crossed out numbers serves as a hint that the corresponding letters should be removed from the hidden word. For example, above the picture of the saw are the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, while the number 4 is crossed out. This means that the fourth letter must be removed from the word "saw"; answer: "drank". (The crossed out number may not be in the row of other numbers, while its meaning is the same.)
9. Using the horizontal bar between pictures placed under each other, letters serves to encrypt the letter combinations “on”, “above”, “under”, as well as the prepositions “on”, “above”, “under”, if any phrase is guessed by the rebus.
10. Using a different location pictures, letters relative to each other (one inside the other, one after the other, one scattered over the other, some “run” to others, some “leave” others, and so on) serves to encrypt letters and letter combinations “in”, “to” , "y", "s", "for", "by", "from", "on", "before" and many others, which in Russian are prepositions, as well as the letter "and", which is a union. For instance:
    • the imposition of pictures, letters on top of each other, when they seem to look out from behind each other or from under each other, leaning against each other, serves to encrypt “for”, “before”, “on”, “under”, “ through”, “y”, “k”, etc. (for example, the letters “ka” “hid” behind the letter “n” - this is “cauldron”);
    • “scattering” over a picture or a letter of any identical letters serves to encrypt “by” (for example, the letters “and” are, as it were, scattered over the letter “n” - this is “pony”);
    • inscribing other letters in a picture or letter serves to encrypt "in" (for example, the letters "sli" are inscribed in the letter "a" - this is "plum");
    • the image of letters, figures, holding “hands”, serves to encrypt “and”, “s” (for example, the letters “k” and “t” held “hands” are “whale”, and “o” and “a "-" wasp ");
    • the image of letters, figures, running away from each other, running up to each other, coming out from somewhere, climbing something, entering somewhere, running around something, and so on - to encrypt "to", "from", “from”, “to”, “to”, “to”, etc.
11. The use of the above and other similar techniques in a variety of combinations (combinations)(for example, using both an inverted picture and a comma before it).