I used to see it this in the old “Games” magazines. It was a word puzzle and for example it would have the word “Chair” like high up in the top of a box, and the solution was the word “High Chair”.
I know the puzzle has a name but cannot find it for the life of me. And searching for word puzzles and high chairs just isn’t coming back with what I need.
Anyone?
I know them as Dingbats, but more generally they are called rebuses. (Although rebuses tend to include pictures, rather than just letters.)
I don’t know what they are called, but are you talking about things like:
infin itive
(split infinitive)
?
An identical thread was started a few days ago.
As I noted in the other thread, I always heard them called “Wacky Wordies”.
Perfect! found a whole bunch of these now. Thanks!!!
My favorite was always:
gosilvert
Silver ingot?
My son’s elementary school has a few of these hung on the cafeteria wall. One of them has been there a long time, and I’ve never been able to figure it out. I need to go look at it again and post here to crowd-source the answer.
This was the first one I remember:
TM
AU
HS
WT
The example one on the Dingbats iPhone app is this:
MUST GET HERE
MUST GET HERE
MUST GET HERE
which is about the worst example they could have picked - not at all clever and relies on a stupid mispronunciation
It’s meant to be “The Three Musketeers”, apparently. Rubbish!
That’s a cool one I haven’t seen before. I think I got it:
What goes up, must come down