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Complete the Rebus using your "lateral thinking" skills, "fuzzy logic" ability, "cluster mapping" technique, and "intuitive leaping" (if appropriate), to identify a common phrase suggested by the information below.
knots--h--o--t
knots--h--o--t
Answer
"not by a long shot""not" = "knot" (homophone)
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I like this rebus. Quick, fairly easy. Good to add to a collection.
I am going back and forth on the homophones. Is it better to add the initial "k" or just go with nots--h--o--t? I guess the "k" makes it a bit more abstract and difficult, but is that preferable? I have not yet decided this for myself.
Thanks for posting!
I am going back and forth on the homophones. Is it better to add the initial "k" or just go with nots--h--o--t? I guess the "k" makes it a bit more abstract and difficult, but is that preferable? I have not yet decided this for myself.
Thanks for posting!
If you "have not yet decided for yourself" then continue in that mode.
I believe it's an option with the puzzle writer. If you want to add MORE difficulty then play around with homophones, homographs, homologues, etc. If not, then make it easier.
There's some theory here, also. One of the 'techniques' of problem-solving is the notion of ....
"seeing what you don't see and not seeing what you see"
Which is derived from the studies of "set" in human perception. "Set" is when we experience something that creates a bias and then that bias becomes so "hardened" that we have difficulty seeing other alternatives.
If I use "knot" in a puzzle when the operant word is actually "not" then I am intentionally creating more difficulty because - according to "set theory" - the auditor of the puzzle will think of a rope or string "knot" or a nautical measure of speed/distance right away and then have more difficulty transitioning to the actual puzzle solution that utilizes the word "not".
The creative problem-solving technique is learning to "break" the "set" by quickly generating other alternatives to key events related to the problem (words, situations, behaviours, etc.).
We "see" "knot" but can we "not" "see" "knot" and "see" something else similar.
(try that last sentence on your friends, sometime) .............. ,
Jaye
(by the bye ... Dad (the original BadBunnee) probably originated the "see what you don't see and don't see what you see" trick as a possible creative technique. He first used the nomenclature in the late '90s and we've not seen it used or mentioned prior to that.)
I believe it's an option with the puzzle writer. If you want to add MORE difficulty then play around with homophones, homographs, homologues, etc. If not, then make it easier.
There's some theory here, also. One of the 'techniques' of problem-solving is the notion of ....
"seeing what you don't see and not seeing what you see"
Which is derived from the studies of "set" in human perception. "Set" is when we experience something that creates a bias and then that bias becomes so "hardened" that we have difficulty seeing other alternatives.
If I use "knot" in a puzzle when the operant word is actually "not" then I am intentionally creating more difficulty because - according to "set theory" - the auditor of the puzzle will think of a rope or string "knot" or a nautical measure of speed/distance right away and then have more difficulty transitioning to the actual puzzle solution that utilizes the word "not".
The creative problem-solving technique is learning to "break" the "set" by quickly generating other alternatives to key events related to the problem (words, situations, behaviours, etc.).
We "see" "knot" but can we "not" "see" "knot" and "see" something else similar.
(try that last sentence on your friends, sometime) .............. ,
Jaye
(by the bye ... Dad (the original BadBunnee) probably originated the "see what you don't see and don't see what you see" trick as a possible creative technique. He first used the nomenclature in the late '90s and we've not seen it used or mentioned prior to that.)
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