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Randy's Church Adventure
Rebus
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.Rebus
Randy liked to give his children challenging games instead of television and video games. He incorporated the use of rebus puzzles into everyday life for his kids.
One day he made a rebus for them to try and decode. It was set up like this:
Some items were lying all over a church. The church was burning down, and this is the fate of the items.
Item one: Found near the front row pews. It was in the fire, and was lost.
Item two: Found near the front door. It was also in the fire, and was lost.
Item three: Found by the bell in the bell tower. Was away from the fire, and was saved.
Item four: Found in the bathroom. Was surrounded by fire, and was lost.
It took a while, but his children finally decoded the rebus. What is the answer?
One day he made a rebus for them to try and decode. It was set up like this:
Some items were lying all over a church. The church was burning down, and this is the fate of the items.
Item one: Found near the front row pews. It was in the fire, and was lost.
Item two: Found near the front door. It was also in the fire, and was lost.
Item three: Found by the bell in the bell tower. Was away from the fire, and was saved.
Item four: Found in the bathroom. Was surrounded by fire, and was lost.
It took a while, but his children finally decoded the rebus. What is the answer?
Answer
Saved by the bell.The third item was saved, and it was by the bell.
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another great rebus. thanks tin man.
Nice one, tin-head! *Groan
Way much builup for such an obvious gag. I solved it before reading about item 2.
haha. that was pretty hard, but i liked it, good job
Barticus, I was just trying to make an actual story behind the rebus, because so many of them are boring. Thanks for the comment though.
Thank you everyone else who commented and all the voters.
Thank you everyone else who commented and all the voters.
Tin interesting Rebus. Nice job.
Tinman, CLEVER to build up the big story ... it certainly deflected me from the answer. Your repeated use of "item" also made me go on a goose chase. GOOOOOOOD one!!!
nice one tinman. i got it!!!
What is the answer? What is the question?!
Ooooooohhhhh mannnnn!!!!! I don't know, I think I'm getting lazy, because I don't even spend two mins anymore before I look at the answer. This was a really good one, I did NOT get it. But the story and all were great, why not have a "big buildup"? I prefer that. Anyway, that was a good one, heehee! Thanks!!!!!
I understand building up a story for the rebus... but the guy burned down a church just to give his kids a rebus??? especially considering the number of church burnings there have been lately. I would prefer if they had sat around and played video games instead.
Maybe the story should have been about an old abandoned one room school house in the middle of a prarie and there was a prarie fire or something.
Maybe the story should have been about an old abandoned one room school house in the middle of a prarie and there was a prarie fire or something.
nicely done. I wasn't really sure what it was asking... I thought it was asking what all of the items had in common, but that's just me...
O... I know why... it's probably cause I don't know what a rebus is...
(what is a rebus?)
(what is a rebus?)
Cool.
Great teaser!! luvd it!! hehe!
I ACTUALLY GOT IT!!! yay!!
I ACTUALLY GOT IT!!! yay!!
shanniesue, the dad didn't burn down that church! He told the STORY of a burning church and ALL is WELL!!!
A rebus is a puzzle in which the syllables of words and names are represented by either pictures or things that sound the same or by letters
Iwas confused by the three that didn't mean anything. I thought I was supposed to discover what each item was.
pretty sweet... I've seen better emotiocons...
o right, and umm, thanks for answering my question about the rebus...
sometimes these just plain stump me! couldn't get it, but it was fun trying and obvious when I read the answer
Ha ha... Well, I was reading it and i was like, 1...no idea, 2...no idea, 3...saved by the bell, 4...no idea. So then I stared at it and tried to figure out the answer! I was like... hmmm... and I totally tried to make it harder than it was. So, I don't know if I got the answer right or not!
very very cute.
Thanks bmc55, I was having trouble also about what a rebus was. Now I have been enlightened!
kewl
iam with southern girl
lol. I was lazy again but this one was so cute I can't even call it a groaner. All I could think of was Welcome Back Koeter (sp) and his bunch of Sweathogs. Enjoyed this one tinman.
Very easy, but very fun!
Too cute! Drat..the answer was right there and I still didn't see it. Good one!
i lykd it...
n i luv the show
n i luv the show
This blows! I didnt know how to do this teaser because the directions were VERY unclear. I had no clue what a "rebus" was. Nice try anyway. Just make sure next time the directions are more clear.
I got it, but not really. Oh well.
Very good tinman. I figured this one out.
I didn't have any prob with it, tho I didn't get. but after reading the comments, I'm thinking maybe if it had said that the item found by the bell was OK, and all the other items in the church were completely burned, then it wouldn't have confused anyone with the item #1, etc., thing. Just a suggestion.
Btw, southerngirl and her follower, please stop using that expression, at least here. It is very demeaning, disrespectful, and makes you look like an id... well, makes you look bad.
Thanks in advance for your understanding and respect!
Btw, southerngirl and her follower, please stop using that expression, at least here. It is very demeaning, disrespectful, and makes you look like an id... well, makes you look bad.
Thanks in advance for your understanding and respect!
I think it was hard but fun. kewle teaser!!
I got it as soon as I saw "bell" and then "saved." (Can you imagine a guy burning a church down to give his kids a rebus?)
Very INTERESTING
I liked it. Thought it was cute.
woah i totally dont get how to do can someone tell me how to do it?
BU CUO
Reminds me of the 6th grade math quiz. Just like Sudoku, arrive at the solution through a process of elimination. Very good. Loved it.
teaching his children arson!
I don't know where you all got this arson thing from, all it states is that a church was on fire.
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Way too long!!!! We could have gotten it without the boring immoral story!
Pretty good.
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