# What is this puzzle type/game called? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 5, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804 "2012-10-05T14:16:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804/1 "2012-10-05T14:16:55Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804/2 "2012-10-05T14:21:03Z")
I know them as Dingbats, but more generally they are called rebuses. (Although rebuses tend to include pictures, rather than just letters.) Edit: [Dingbats (board game) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbats_(board_game)) ---
**Author:** ![simsimian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@simsimian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simsimian)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804/3 "2012-10-05T14:30:13Z")
I don’t know what they are called, but are you talking about things like: infin itive (split infinitive) ? ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804/4 "2012-10-05T14:32:20Z")
[An identical thread was started a few days ago.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=667523) As I noted in the other thread, I always heard them called “Wacky Wordies”. ---
**Author:** ![Dob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Dob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dob)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804/5 "2012-10-05T14:37:31Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I know them as Dingbats, but more generally they are called rebuses. (Although rebuses tend to include pictures, rather than just letters.) > > Edit: [Dingbats (board game) - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingbats_(board_game)) Perfect! found a whole bunch of these now. Thanks!!! ---
**Author:** ![Bremidon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@Bremidon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bremidon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804/6 "2012-10-05T15:25:53Z")
My favorite was always: gosilvert ---
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804/7 "2012-10-05T15:31:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804/8 "2012-10-05T15:32:44Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-this-puzzle-type-game-called/636804/9 "2012-10-05T15:41:27Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > This was the first one I remember: > > TM > AU > HS > WT That’s a cool one I haven’t seen before. I think I got it: What goes up, must come down