A rebus puzzle hides a word or phrase in the way letters, words, numbers or pictures are arranged. “TRAVEL” written over “cccc” means travel overseas; “JOB IN JOB” means in between jobs. Here are 113 rebus puzzles with answers – picture rebus puzzles, word rebus puzzles and emoji rebus – each with a short explanation.
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Contents
- How to Solve Rebus Puzzles
- Picture Rebus Puzzles
- Word Rebus Puzzles
- Tricky Rebus Puzzles
- Emoji Rebus Puzzles
- Popular Rebus Puzzles Explained
- More Riddle Collections
- Frequently Asked Questions
How to Solve Rebus Puzzles
- Read the position: is a word over, under, inside or between another? (MIND over MATTER)
- Count: repeated words often mean a number – four TABLEs = come for table.
- Say it out loud: letters and numbers become sounds – Y = why/wise, 4 = for, 2 = to, C = sea.
- Look for colour, size and direction: a green T is green tea; a word written backwards means “back” or “reverse”.
Picture Rebus Puzzles
1. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Too big to ignore – two “big”s, two “ignore”s. Full answer
2. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Blood is thicker than water
3. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Back door
4. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Green eggs and ham
5. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Forget it
6. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Six feet underground
7. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Ice cube – ice to the power of 3.
8. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Neon lights – “knee-on” lights.
9. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Jack in the box
10. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Bump in the night
11. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: One in a million
12. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Once upon a time
13. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Read between the lines
14. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Somewhere over the rainbow
15. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Rocking around the Christmas tree
16. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Think outside the box
17. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Downtown
18. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Try to understand
19. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Won by a nose – “one” sounds like “won”, “knows” like “nose”.
20. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: First aid
21. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Apple pie – 3.14 is π (pi).
22. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Half baked
23. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Belong – a long B. Full answer
24. What does this picture rebus mean?
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Answer: Back on one’s feet
Word Rebus Puzzles
Where the layout matters, the note in brackets tells you how the words are placed.
1. What does this rebus mean? ECONOMY (the letters get bigger)
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Growing economy
2. What does this rebus mean? JOB IN JOB
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In between jobs. Full answer
3. What does this rebus mean? REC ORD (the word is split in two)
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Broken record
4. What does this rebus mean? ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTVWXYZ
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Missing you – the letter U is missing.
5. What does this rebus mean? GIVE GET GIVE GET GIVE GET GIVE GET
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Forgive and forget – four gives, four gets.
6. What does this rebus mean? TRAVEL (written over a row of c’s: cccc)
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Travel overseas. Full answer
7. What does this rebus mean? MOONCEON (ONCE inside MOON, written in blue)
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Once in a blue moon
8. What does this rebus mean? MARY + MARY
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Summary – sum Mary.
9. What does this rebus mean? FIGURE (written inside a circle)
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Round figure
10. What does this rebus mean? SICK NNNN
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Forensic – four N sick.
11. What does this rebus mean? FA ST
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Breakfast. Full answer
12. What does this rebus mean? T (a big green letter T)
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Green tea
13. What does this rebus mean? ROOT ROOT ROOT ROOT (arranged in a square)
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Square root
14. What does this rebus mean? DICE DICE
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Paradise – a pair of dice.
15. What does this rebus mean? 584 SAFETY 9482
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Safety in numbers
16. What does this rebus mean? TOGETUCH
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Get in touch – GET is in TOUCH.
17. What does this rebus mean? HANDED (written in red)
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Red-handed
18. What does this rebus mean? ESIW KCOLC
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Anticlockwise – CLOCKWISE written backwards.
19. What does this rebus mean? CHIMADENA
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Made in China
20. What does this rebus mean? HOUSE (written in green)
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Greenhouse
21. What does this rebus mean? VICE + VICE
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Advice – add vice.
22. What does this rebus mean? GESTEAMNE
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Steam engine – STEAM in GENE.
23. What does this rebus mean? S T A R (the letters fall diagonally down the page)
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Falling star
24. What does this rebus mean? EVELORAT
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Elevator out of order – the letters of ELEVATOR are out of order.
25. What does this rebus mean? JANOB
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An inside job – AN inside JOB.
26. What does this rebus mean? U R YY 4 ME
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You are too wise for me
27. What does this rebus mean? TAES
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Back seat – SEAT backwards.
28. What does this rebus mean? PROG WORK RESS
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Work in progress
29. What does this rebus mean? DOX DOX
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Paradox – a pair of dox.
30. What does this rebus mean? XQQQQQME
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Excuse me – X Qs me.
31. What does this rebus mean? CHAWHORGE
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Who’s in charge? – WHO is in CHARGE.
32. What does this rebus mean? COME TABLE TABLE TABLE TABLE
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Comfortable – come 4 table.
33. What does this rebus mean? D R O P (written downwards)
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Drop down
34. What does this rebus mean? Y R R U H (written upwards, H at the bottom)
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Hurry up
35. What does this rebus mean? CHOICE CHOICE CHOICE CHOICE CHOICE CHOICE CHOICE CHOICE
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Multiple choice
36. What does this rebus mean? ARREST (written above YOU’RE)
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You’re under arrest
37. What does this rebus mean? WHONCEILE
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Once in a while – ONCE in WHILE.
38. What does this rebus mean? THINK BBBB U LEAP
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Think before you leap – B4 U leap.
39. What does this rebus mean? IMPORTANT = IMPORTANT
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Equally important
40. What does this rebus mean? SPIBRED
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Be inspired – B in SPIRED.
41. What does this rebus mean? A4ID
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Foreign aid – four in aid.
42. What does this rebus mean? VIT_MIN
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Vitamin A deficiency – the A is missing.
Tricky Rebus Puzzles
43. What does this rebus mean? META META META META
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Metaphor – meta four.
44. What does this rebus mean? THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS
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Thanks a lot
45. What does this rebus mean? ME 1 1 1 1 1 1
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Someone is following me – some ones following me.
46. What does this rebus mean? POD POD POD
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Tripod
47. What does this rebus mean? POT OOOOOOOO
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Potatoes – pot 8 O’s.
48. What does this rebus mean? P O U R (written downwards)
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Downpour
49. What does this rebus mean? SITTING (written above WORLD)
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Sitting on top of the world
50. What does this rebus mean? R + R + NaCl
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Somersault – sum R + salt (NaCl).
51. What does this rebus mean? SILOOKDE
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Look inside – LOOK inside SIDE.
52. What does this rebus mean? R + R
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Summer – sum R.
53. What does this rebus mean? TEN BAD TION
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Bad intention – BAD in TENTION.
54. What does this rebus mean? DEEF
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Feedback – FEED backwards.
55. What does this rebus mean? NIPS
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Reverse spin – SPIN reversed.
56. What does this rebus mean? THERE THERE THERE THERE
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Therefore – there four.
57. What does this rebus mean? CARD (written in green)
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Green card
58. What does this rebus mean? YOU JUST ME
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Just between you and me
59. What does this rebus mean? COVER (written above POLICE)
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Undercover police
60. What does this rebus mean? LEM (written above ADE)
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Lemonade – LEM on ADE.
61. What does this rebus mean? RADANCINGIN
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Dancing in the rain – DANCING inside RA…IN.
62. What does this rebus mean? CYCLE CYCLE CYCLE
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Tricycle
63. What does this rebus mean? CI II
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See eye to eye
64. What does this rebus mean? ESROH RIDING
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Horseback riding – HORSE backwards.
65. What does this rebus mean? S E T T L E (written downwards)
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Settle down
66. What does this rebus mean? 5Q + 5Q
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Thank you – 10Q.
67. What does this rebus mean? MOUNT MOUNT MOUNT MOUNT MOUNT MOUNT MOUNT MOUNT MOUNT MOUNT
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Mountain – mount ten.
68. What does this rebus mean? EXISTENCE EXISTENCE STRUGGLE EXISTENCE EXISTENCE
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Struggle for existence – struggle 4 existence.
69. What does this rebus mean? N U S (written upwards)
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Sunrise – SUN rising.
70. What does this rebus mean? SOIUDTE
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Inside out – the letters of OUT are inside SIDE.
71. What does this rebus mean? FLUGOODENCE
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Good influence – GOOD in FLUENCE.
72. What does this rebus mean? SURIV
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Antivirus – VIRUS backwards.
73. What does this rebus mean? L O A D (written downwards)
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Download
74. What does this rebus mean? H I J K L M N O
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Water – H to O (H2O).
75. What does this rebus mean? ECNALG
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Backward glance
76. What does this rebus mean? BAN ANA
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Banana split
77. What does this rebus mean? MIND (written above MATTER)
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Mind over matter
78. What does this rebus mean? HEAD (written above HEELS)
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Head over heels
79. What does this rebus mean? MAN (written above BOARD)
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Man overboard
80. What does this rebus mean? STAND (written above the letter I)
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I understand
81. What does this rebus mean? WEATHER (written above ME)
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Under the weather
82. What does this rebus mean? YYY GUY
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Wise guys. Full answer
83. What does this rebus mean? AaBbCcDd e
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No big E (no biggie). Full answer
Emoji Rebus Puzzles
84. What does this emoji rebus mean? 🐈 ➖ T ➕ R
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Car – CAT minus T plus R.
85. What does this emoji rebus mean? ✋ ⚽
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Handball
86. What does this emoji rebus mean? ❌ ↪️
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No U-turn
87. What does this emoji rebus mean? 🔷 ⭕
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Diamond ring
88. What does this emoji rebus mean? ⬜ 🐘
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White elephant
89. What does this emoji rebus mean? 📥
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a rebus puzzle?
A rebus puzzle is a word picture: it uses the position, size, colour or sound of letters, words, numbers and pictures to hide a phrase. For example, “MIND over MATTER” is written as MIND above MATTER.
How do you solve rebus puzzles?
Look at where words are placed (over, under, inside), count repeated words, and say letters and numbers out loud (4 = for, Y = why, C = sea).
Are rebus puzzles good for kids?
Yes. They build vocabulary and lateral thinking. Start with easy ones like DICE DICE (paradise) and CYCLE CYCLE CYCLE (tricycle).
What is the answer to TRAVEL cccc?
Travel overseas – the word travel is over the C’s (seas).