Comments on Puzzle #19039: Rebus #8
By Richard Coderre (chiefsox)
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quality: difficulty: solvability: line logic only
Puzzle Description:
A phrase that is never out of season!
#1: Skippy Miller (gmillvmill) on Jun 18, 2012 [SPOILER]
Peace on earth, good will toward men. :) I love Christmas!#2: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Jun 18, 2012
True that is!...but this puzzle is not a rebus.#3: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jun 18, 2012
JoDeen, do you know the proper term for this sort of word puzzle? I think "rebus" gets used by default, because no one can come up with a better one.#4: JoDeen Mozena (ozymoe) on Jun 18, 2012 [SPOILER]
A rebus uses a combination of pictures, letters and numbers, also in some cases, words themselves, to convey a word or phrase. Many rebuses use plus and/or minus (+ or -) signs to direct the solver. A particular kind of rebus that is common on these boards is a wonderful sort that uses the PLACEMENT and/or descriptor words of the placement, size, number and/or color (etc.) of the puzzle components.#5: Carolyn (castarkwe) on Jun 18, 2012 [SPOILER]
Here's an instance of the latter: place the word "miss" underneath the word "standing". Usually you see this puzzle with a line drawn under "miss" and over "standing". The answer to this puzzle is the word "misunderstanding".
This puzzle of "Peace on Earth" is just a phrase. If you wanted to make it a rebus you could do a pic of a globe with several green pixels hovering in the air above it...representing "peas (green pixels) on earth (the globe)". We should get "peace on earth" from "peas on earth".
Another way (more obscure) to make Peace on Earth would be to place the words "sugar snaps" over the word "dirt" with a dividing line between the two...again, literally, "peas on earth".
Sooo....this puzzle is not a rebus. This puzzle is simply a phrase.
like the puzzle and the sentiment. I've always heard these types of puzzles called "plexars." Plexars are word puzzles that have to do with where the words or letters are placed in relationship to one another#6: Norma Dee (norm0908) on Jun 19, 2012
Plexar???? No definition found on google#7: Kristen Vognild (kristen) on Jun 19, 2012
Ah, but Plexer worked! Short for perplexer, perhaps?#8: Bruce Yanoshek (yanogator) on Jun 21, 2012
GAMES Magazine calls them Wacky Wordies.#9: Bruce Yanoshek (yanogator) on Jun 21, 2012
GAMES Magazine calls them Wacky Wordies.#10: Marie Jeanne (Alleycat) on Jun 21, 2012
Love the puzzle and the sentiment.
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