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And here you have to puff a little longer: you need to unravel whole proverbs:

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Well, the last task for real pros! Guess what phrase is encrypted here:

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How to solve puzzles? Let's remember a few rules:

1. The names of all objects depicted in the pictures should be read in the nominative case.

2. Commas before a picture or word mean how many letters need to be removed from the beginning of the word.

3. Commas (usually upside down) after a picture or word indicate how many letters need to be removed from the end of the word.

4. Crossed out letters mean that such letters need to be removed from the word. If there are several such letters in a word, then all of them are crossed out.

5. Crossed out letter numbers mean that it is necessary to cross out only letters with the corresponding serial number from the beginning of the word.

6. An equality of type I=E means that in a word all letters I should be replaced with E. If an equality of type 1=C is indicated, then only the first letter should be replaced with C. (P=S SAW - POWER)

7. The use of an arrow going from one letter to another also serves to indicate the corresponding replacement of letters. A-P

8. The numbers 3,1,4,5 above the picture mean that from the word you must use only letters numbered 3,1,4,5 and in the order of the numbers.

9. A picture turned upside down means that the word needs to be read backwards.

10. If a fraction is used in the rebus, then it is deciphered as “NA” (divide BY). If a fraction with a denominator of 2 is used, then this is deciphered as “FLOOR” (half).

11. In puzzles, when encrypting, notes are often used. Indicate their name.

12. If the pictures are placed one below the other, then this is deciphered as “ON”, “ABOVE”, “UNDER”.

13. A letter made up of other letters is deciphered as “IZ”. If we depict a large “A” with small letters “B”, we get “FROM B A”

14. A letter written on top of another stands for “PO.”

15. If one letter is depicted behind another letter, then this is deciphered as “FOR” or “BEFORE”.

16. If an arrow pointing to the left is drawn above the picture, then you first need to decipher the word, and then read it backwards.

17. The crossed out "=" sign between pictures should be read as "NOT" (Example: "C" is NOT equal to "G").

Well, now the answers:
1. St. Petersburg
2. Supermarket
3. Beginning
4. Tournament
5. Classic
6. Compote
7. God protects those who are careful
8. Out of sight, out of mind
9. Language will bring you to Kyiv
10. If you are suddenly bitten by a crocodile, all you have to do is press hard on its eyes and it will let you go.

Game methods and techniques are aimed at increasing interest and positive emotions; they help to concentrate attention on the educational task, which becomes not imposed from the outside, but a desired, personal goal. Solving a learning task during a game involves less expenditure of nervous energy and minimal volitional efforts.

Any logical ingenuity task, no matter what age it is intended for, carries a certain mental load, which is most often disguised by an entertaining plot, external data, the conditions of the task, and so on.

What is a rebus?

A rebus is a riddle consisting of images of various objects (often interspersed with letters, numbers and musical notes), the names of which do not indicate the concepts expressed by the words to be solved, but are similar to them in pronunciation or consonance (without any relation to spelling).

Puzzles train memory, sharpen intelligence, develop perseverance, the ability to think logically, analyze and compare.

Rebus- a riddle in which the searched word or phrase is depicted by a combination of letter shapes or signs (Ozhegov S.)

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

Solving a puzzle means “translating” everything it contains into letters that make up a meaningful word or sentence.

Rebus requirement

1. A rebus must have a solution, and, as a rule, only 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 must not contain spelling errors.
3. If there is one word in the rebus, then it should, as a rule, be a noun, and in the singular and in the nominative case. Deviation from this rule must be specified in the conditions of the rebus (for example: “Guess the participle”).
4. If a sentence is made (a proverb, an aphorism, etc.), then, naturally, it can contain not only nouns, but also verbs and other parts of speech. In this case, the terms of the rebus must contain the appropriate phrase (for example: “Guess the proverb”).
5. The puzzle should be completed from left to right.
6. When creating puzzles, always consider the target audience.

How to compose and solve educational puzzles

Simple rules:

• a word or sentence is divided into parts that can be depicted in the form of a picture;
• the names of all objects depicted in the picture should be read only in the nominative case;
• if the object in the picture is upside down, its name is read from right to left;
• if there are commas (one or more) to the left of the picture, then the first letters of the word are not readable. If commas are placed after the picture, to the right of it, the last letters are not readable;
• if a crossed out letter is depicted above the picture, it must be excluded from the name of the item;
• if there are numbers above the picture, the letters should be read in the indicated order;
• if another letter is written next to a crossed out letter, it should be read instead of the crossed out one. Sometimes in this case an equal sign is placed between the letters;
• if part of the word is pronounced as a numeral, in the rebus it is represented by numbers and numbers (O5 - again; 100G - haystack);
• if the picture does not have any additional characters, only the first letter of the name of the depicted object should be taken into account;
• Many parts of encrypted words are indicated by the corresponding arrangement of letters and pictures. Words that contain the combination of letters on, under, over, for, can be represented by placing letters or objects one above the other or behind the other. The letters C and B can become prepositions. If a letter is made up of other letters, the preposition from is used when reading.

When can you use puzzles in teaching?

1. At the stage of fixing the material. At the same time, students do not simply reproduce knowledge in the form in which it was learned, but transform, transform it, and learn to operate with it depending on the game situation.
2. At the stage of students’ independent work. Organization of active independent search, finding and use of scientific information.
3. At the stage of switching and activating attention (introduction, explanation, consolidation, exercise, control).

The rebus method is used:

In teaching reading to preschoolers - the Rebus method of Lev Sternberg,

In adult education - puzzles in Anatomy for first-year students as an additional means of testing knowledge in certain sections of the discipline “Human Anatomy and Physiology” or in Economics, as a stage in students’ project activities.

Today there is even a puzzle generator:

Fig.1. Puzzle generator

Answer: Communion.

More puzzles created using the generator:

Answer: verb

Answer: Battle of Moscow

Answer: Oxymoron

Examples of puzzles on the History of the Fatherland (author R. Kitaev).

Answer: Aurora

Answer: Chinese Wall

Answer: Victory Day

Answer: Serfdom

Answer: Tsar Cannon

Answer: Napoleon

Rebus is a logic game in which you have to guess the answer from a picture. The latter depicts objects, animals and plants, letters and numbers. Their relative position matters. Even for fidgets, puzzles can be a fun activity if presented in a playful way. For example, you can offer to teach your child how to solve spy codes.

And from the simplest picture puzzles for preschool age to relatively complex ones. We assure you: if your child gets carried away and learns to use logical thinking, over time you will learn from him how to solve riddles in pictures.

Puzzles have been invented on a huge variety of topics. The main thing is that every word, letter and object that serves as an answer to the picture is already familiar to the baby.

How to solve puzzles for children with letters in pictures?

If you are interested in puzzles, then most likely you know the benefits of these logic puzzles. They develop memory, intelligence, speed of thinking, the ability to navigate a situation and apply the knowledge already acquired.

To teach a 6-7 year old child how to solve problems correctly, first explain to him the rules. There is no need to insist that he remember everything at once. Most likely, you don’t know them all yourself. It’s better to explain one or two things a day and support them with thematic tasks. The latter can be printed (more convenient for outdoor activities) or shown from the monitor. In subsequent classes, it is also better not to offer too much material. It is important to explain to the child that first he needs to correctly identify and name the object shown in the picture. And only then apply the rules in relation to this word.

So, let's read the basic rules! In particular, we will determine what a comma, a strikethrough, an inverted object and other subtleties mean in pictures.

• What does a comma mean at the beginning or end of a rebus?
  A comma at the bottom or at the top before the picture means that one letter at the beginning must be dropped from the name of the depicted object. Accordingly, we see two commas - we discard the first two letters. These icons are very common.
• What does an inverted comma at the beginning or end mean?
  The rules for inverted commas are similar to the rules for regular commas (see previous paragraph).
• What do the crossed out and added letters mean?
  A crossed out letter in the picture means that it needs to be excluded from the name of the drawn object (and another one must be added, if indicated). Added to the left or right of the picture - you need to add it to the word at the beginning and at the end.
• What do the numbers in the puzzles mean?
  Numbers can have two meanings. Do they stand above the word? To guess the answer, you need to rearrange the letters from place to place in the indicated order. The name of a number can be part of a word (often “one hundred”, “five” are used). A crossed out number means that the letter with that serial number must be excluded from the word. It should be remembered that some numbers, as well as objects, can have several names (unit - “count”, “one”, “one”).
• What does the plus sign and the equal sign mean?
  If there is a plus sign between words (symbols), then they need to be added to each other. Sometimes “+” means the preposition “to”; the necessary one is chosen according to the meaning. The equal sign (for example, A=K) indicates that all the letters “A” in the word should be replaced with the letters “K”.
• Vertical or horizontal line in tasks?
  A horizontal line means “under”, “over”, “above” and “on” at the same time, depending on the context. Used with letters or pictures, when one part is drawn below the line, the other above. Sometimes denotes a fraction (half of something, that is, “half-”).
• Arrangement of letters in the picture and prepositions
  It is important to look at the relative position of the letters. If they are placed one inside the other, it means that the preposition “in” is added to their names. One letter is drawn after another - meaning the preposition “behind” or “before”.
• The object in the picture is drawn upside down? To get the answer, you need to read the word backwards. Children 6-7 years old can easily turn short words in their minds. True, the number of such tasks is quite limited.

Most often, puzzles use several rules simultaneously. It is believed that at the age of 6-7 years, children are already familiar with letters and clearly know their names. If a younger student has not yet encountered commas, teaching him a new symbol will not be particularly difficult.

Examples of puzzles in pictures for children 6-7 years old with answers

Children 6-7 years old and younger perceive material much better in connection with some memorable event. Puzzles about animals will be solved with delight if you offer them to your child the next day after visiting the zoo. A first-grader girl who is eager to enroll in a music school will be interested in musical puzzles. And a child, a boy impressed by the planetarium, will like pictures about space.

About animals and birds

When giving children a task about birds or animals, make sure that they have already encountered such animal names and also understand everything that is shown in the picture.

Puzzles about family, about mother

Who is the sweetest for a child, if not mommy! And who does he happily meet every time, except mom and dad? Children will really enjoy recognizing and guessing their grandparents, sisters and other relatives in the encrypted pictures. Print or draw brighter pictures and start having fun while teaching your child at the same time!

About sports, about health

Puzzles about work, health, sports, professions and many others can be used as thematic game aids. Is there a lesson or conversation planned on one of the topics in the graduating group of kindergarten, first grades of school or at home? A riddle in the form of a picture will allow you to learn the material better than an ordinary faceless story. Kids will be interested in the non-standard presentation of the material.

Puzzles based on fairy tales

Fairy tales with familiar characters, modern or classic cartoons are an inexhaustible source of inspiration. If your child is not very interested in logical riddles, you can try to get him interested in guessing his favorite characters. There are many more mysteries on this topic than are given as an example. Knowing your child’s interests and favorite fairy tales, you can create puzzles in the form of applications yourself.

A rebus is a special type of riddle in which the hidden words are encrypted using a sequence of pictures, letters, numbers and other symbols.

In order to solve and compose puzzles, you need to know the rules and techniques that are used in composing them. Read and remember these rules. For greater clarity, some of them are illustrated with examples.

1. The names of all objects depicted in the rebus are read only in the nominative case and singular. Sometimes the desired object in the picture is indicated by an arrow.

2. Very often, an object depicted in a rebus may have not one, but two or more names, for example, “eye” and “eye,” “leg” and “paw,” etc. Or it may have one general and one specific name, for example “tree” and “oak”, “note” and “D”, etc. You need to choose one that is appropriate in meaning.

The ability to identify and correctly name the object shown in the picture is one of the main difficulties when deciphering puzzles. In addition to knowing the rules, you will need ingenuity and logic.

3. Sometimes the name of an object cannot be used in its entirety - it is necessary to discard one or two letters at the beginning or end of the word. In these cases, the symbol is used - comma. If the comma is left from the picture, this means that you need to discard the first letter from its name if on right from the drawing - then the last one. If there are two commas, then two letters are discarded accordingly, etc.

For example, a “yoke” is drawn, you only need to read “whirlpool”, a “sail” is drawn, you only need to read “steam”.

4. If two objects or two letters are drawn one inside the other, then their names are read with the addition of a preposition "V". For example: “v-oh-yes”, or “not-in-a”, or “in-oh-seven”:

In this and the next five examples, different readings are possible, for example, instead of “eight” you can read “SEVEN”, and instead of “water” - “DAVO”. But such words do not exist! This is where ingenuity and logic should come to your aid.

5. If any letter consists of another letter, then read with the addition "from". For example: “iz-b-a” or “vn-iz-u” or “f-iz-ik”:

6. If behind any letter or object there is another letter or object, then you need to read with the addition "behind".
For example: “Ka-za-n”, “za-ya-ts”.

7. If one figure or letter is drawn under another, then you need to read it with the addition "on the", "above" or "under"- choose a preposition that makes sense.
For example: “fo-na-ri” or “pod-u-shka”:

The phrase: “Tit found a horseshoe and gave it to Nastya” can be depicted like this:

8. If another letter is written after a letter, then read it with the addition of “by”. For example: “po-r-t”, “po-l-e”, “po-ya-s”:

9. If one letter lies next to another, leaning against it, then read with the addition of “u”. For example: “L-u-k”, “d-u-b”:

10. If in a rebus there is an image of an object drawn upside down, then its name must be read from the end. For example, “cat” is drawn, you need to read “current”, “nose” is drawn, you need to read “dream”.

11. 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 resulting 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

For example: “eye” we read “gas”, “bone” we read “guest”.