Brain Teasers
One Step at a Time
Rebus
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.Rebus
What phrase is represented by the following?
NIGHTDANCE
NIGHDANCE
NIGDANCE
NIDANCE
NDANCE
DANCE
NIGHTDANCE
NIGHDANCE
NIGDANCE
NIDANCE
NDANCE
DANCE
Answer
dance the night awayHide Answer Show Answer
What Next?
View a Similar Brain Teaser...
If you become a registered user you can vote on this brain teaser, keep track of which ones you have seen, and even make your own.
Solve a Puzzle
Comments
I have issues. I'm a rebus purist. Does this puzzle really represent the phrase? Not directly. Not in the traditional rebus form where relationships between words define prepositions that when spoken make the final phrase.
Stripping away my rebus purist bias, does the given puzzle represent the answer? It must, because I looked at what was given and free associated with known idioms and found the answer pretty quickly.
Do I need to expand my definition of a rebus? Probably. Was this puzzle fun. Yep!
I still get frustrated with "rebus" puzzles that are too abstract. I'll get over myself some day.
Stripping away my rebus purist bias, does the given puzzle represent the answer? It must, because I looked at what was given and free associated with known idioms and found the answer pretty quickly.
Do I need to expand my definition of a rebus? Probably. Was this puzzle fun. Yep!
I still get frustrated with "rebus" puzzles that are too abstract. I'll get over myself some day.
Thanks Snowdog. I appreciate your comments.
Snowdog: Please do not take the following as any criticism of your stance on Rebuses.
If you take only the 'literal' view of rebus-writing and solving then your observation certainly has merit. And you share that posture with most of the Braingle Judges (here identified as "editors").
But that takes a LOT of the fun out of rebus puzzles. Once you begin to "free-associate' (using such tools as creative cluster-thinking, see-what-you-don't-see-and-don't-see-what-you-see, image-drifting, etc.) then there are thousands of rebus possibilities.
If DaVinci had looked into the pond and seen ONLY a turtle, then he NEVER would have conceived of - and drawn plans for - a human-manned submarine (hundreds of years before one was actually built).
And that reminds me of a thought I had several years ago.
Wouldn't it have been fun to have been the one who emptied his waste-basket every Saturday !!
So I'm pleased you mentioned the "free-association" notion in your reply. Keep working on it. And mention it to the Judges when you get the opportunity ....
LGM
If you take only the 'literal' view of rebus-writing and solving then your observation certainly has merit. And you share that posture with most of the Braingle Judges (here identified as "editors").
But that takes a LOT of the fun out of rebus puzzles. Once you begin to "free-associate' (using such tools as creative cluster-thinking, see-what-you-don't-see-and-don't-see-what-you-see, image-drifting, etc.) then there are thousands of rebus possibilities.
If DaVinci had looked into the pond and seen ONLY a turtle, then he NEVER would have conceived of - and drawn plans for - a human-manned submarine (hundreds of years before one was actually built).
And that reminds me of a thought I had several years ago.
Wouldn't it have been fun to have been the one who emptied his waste-basket every Saturday !!
So I'm pleased you mentioned the "free-association" notion in your reply. Keep working on it. And mention it to the Judges when you get the opportunity ....
LGM
Da Vinci's waste basket...
Can you imagine?
Can you imagine?
To post a comment, please create an account and sign in.
Follow Braingle!