Expanding your mind does not end with
gaining new facts – you need to cultivate new thinking approaches that will
make the information that you already know more useful. Brain teasers are the
best exercises designed to stimulate cognitive function, which encourage the
brain to work and complete the exercise. Brain teasers are not just for fun,
these brain exercises improve creative thinking which is why teachers often use
them as educational tools. Furthermore, doing brain teasers can actually
help keeping the mind more fit.
Brain teasers
may come in different structures. Generally, puzzles are the most common brain
teasers. The puzzles may be visual or may involve numbers and word plays - in
this case, a rebus puzzle. A rebus is a puzzle in which words, phrases, or
sayings, are cryptically represented by combinations of pictures and individual
letters.
Rebus
puzzles are fun and challenging brain teasers. The
word rebus comes from the Latin phrase "non verbis, sed
rebus," meaning
"not by words, but by things.” Basically,
you must have a large collection of common words and phrases in order to solve
rebus puzzles. It will be difficult to solve rebus puzzles without the general knowledge
of famous quotes, sayings, literature, clichés
and even popular culture.
There
are different ways in solving rebus puzzles. Clues are always given in terms of
the positioning, colors, and sizes of the words or pictures. Most of the time
these clues are employed within a single rebus puzzle.
POSITION:
One of
the most common clue is the positioning of words and symbols relative to the
picture containing the puzzle, and with the other words and symbols.
COLOR:
If the
word of part of the word is printed with colors other than the usual color,
black, the color probably is relevant to the puzzle.
SIZE:
The
words in the puzzle may be written unusually large or small and are probably tied
to the answer of the puzzle.
DIRECTION:
The
direction in which a word is oriented provides clues to solve the puzzle. The
direction can denote down, backward, back, behind, right and left to name a
few.
QUANTITY:
The
puzzle can defend on the number of times in which a word appears. This can
denote the use of that number or simply that word should be plural.
Here's a collection of rebus puzzles (Click a picture to enlarge and for a slide show):
Here's a collection of rebus puzzles (Click a picture to enlarge and for a slide show):
This collection will be updated every week.
