The Sphinx's Lair

@Chris Note that in the original puzzle, "Gotten" and "Surprise" come directly after a full stop and a colon (and the American word "gotten" suggests that capital letters go after colons in the OP's version of English).

Chris Cudmore

Could Rising a surprise! be EH?

Khale_Kitha

cringes at 'gotten'

Rubio

Or, that autocorrect insisted on capitalizing them. That happens a lot.

Deusovi

@Randal'Thor That's not a thing in American English.

Khale_Kitha

3:22 PM

It is, however, a thing in bad english.

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi Capital letters after colons?

I thought it was.

Deusovi

Nope.

TheGreatEscaper

http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/47649/grandmas-rebuses
Tada!

Deusovi

At least, no more than where they should normally go.

Rubio

@TheGreatEscaper This looks great!

Rand al'Thor

3:22 PM

@TheGreatEscaper Have an upvote.

IAmInPLS

@TheGreatEscaper Take mine too

Deusovi

"SHEEP"

TrojanByAccident

@Randal'Thor I was first

Deusovi

Are you sure that's a rebus? :P

Rand al'Thor

I would have a go at solving it, but I'm almost repcapped already and have things I should be doing IRL.

TheGreatEscaper

3:23 PM

Hehe. Yeah!

It's a rebus.

Rand al'Thor

@Deusovi Who are you calling a sheep? :-P

Khale_Kitha

Not you. You're a rat

Sid

@Randal'Thor Got it independently while doing maths..

Rubio

it's obviously a Black Sheep

TheGreatEscaper

:D

Khale_Kitha

3:24 PM

Has it any wool?

TheGreatEscaper

Yes sir yes sir

Rubio

but that's, like, the only one I can get at a quick scan through

Khale_Kitha

hehe

TheGreatEscaper

I don't expect this one to be a quick solve, anyhow

Chris Cudmore

How does the puzzle work? Like dominoes?

TheGreatEscaper

3:25 PM

Hey, follow Grandma's instructions.

Rand al'Thor

@Khale_Kitha I am not a ~~loony~~ rat!

Fish Licence - Monty Python's Flying Circus

►

Khale_Kitha

haha

Techidiot

One of the is probably GIBBERISH ??

Deusovi

Why?

@Rubio: I answer-sniped you. :P

Rubio

You did. hehe

Will

3:29 PM

I've got one of them but idt just one is worth an answer

and @Deusovi just got it anyway :P

Deusovi

:D

got all but the middle column

TheGreatEscaper

Nice! Speedy :P

Chris Cudmore

top one could be VOTE

Deusovi

doesn't really seem like a rebus though

Khale_Kitha

Replied to email again, Deu

I want to say "MetaRebus" -- But I can't say it, in my head, without the Unreal Announcer Voice.

"M-M-M-MetaRebus!"

Deusovi

3:34 PM

@Khale_Kitha And I've replied as well

Khale_Kitha

How would it work without the second word, there?

No indicator of what it even means, at that point, I'd think

Deusovi

I don't think you need one in that case. They're synonyms (in a sense).

Khale_Kitha

So what about word 2, 3, and "reversed"

Or similar

Deusovi

Word 2 isn't really necessary, but it'd be fine in there. That sounds good to me.

Techidiot

BR ISH BR ISH - Possibly Gibberish as they dont makr any sense @Deusovi

Deusovi

3:38 PM

@Techidiot That's... not really how rebuses work.

Rubio

it's a cold school of headless fish. I mean, duh.

Sconibulus

I'm pretty sure it's ??? squarish

Silenus

What do you think is the best way to handle choosing answers to puzzles which comprise a set of, say twenty, sub-puzzles? When all have been solved, I have a hard time choosing an answer since it's unclear who got what first...

Techidiot

Sorry. I got it. Didnt see the "triples"

Rubio

I was actually thinking maybe "pencil box", but that seems hokey

Silenus

3:39 PM

In the future I may advise in the body of the question that a community wiki would make most sense, but I feel like that might disincentivize some puzzlers since they wouldn't accrue any cred by contributing...

Sphinx

9

Q: Grandma's Rebuses

DISCLAIMER: This story is fictional My dear grandmother passed away two years ago, with her husband, Ed, sitting solemnly by the side of her hospital bed. She was always kind, friendly, but also very intelligent and unusual - and Ed has since gifted me something that she gave him on her thirtiet...

Khale_Kitha

About time, Sphinx.

Rubio

Lol @sphinx, right on top of it as always

Deusovi

@Silenus Maybe write your own CW answer and accept that? People still get rep by posting parts of the solution

(After it's solved, of course)

Or accept whoever gets the final solution. If there's no final solution, then it may be too broad.

Sid

@Rubio How do you get Black Sheep? Because it is written in Black?

Khale_Kitha

3:41 PM

One last email, btw, Deu, then I won't bug you about it anymore, hehe

Rubio

In that case, ask/self-answer immediately with an empty community wiki answer, and ask people to fill it in when they've gotten pieces solved

Deusovi

@Khale_Kitha Sure, that's fine! I don't mind c:

Rubio

@Sid yeah. If it was "WOLF" it'd be Lone wolf; "MAN", he'd be outstanding in his field; but it's Sheep, so there's little else it could be.

Silenus

@Deusovi, @Rubio thanks for the input!

Sconibulus

well.. it could be a LONE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING

Rubio

3:43 PM

wow. that's deliciously lateral. :)

Sconibulus

you just can't tell, because it's a great disguise

Techidiot

Could it be BR AND ISH -> BRANDISH

Rubio

ohh

brandishes!

Sconibulus

that seems plausible

Chris Cudmore

Nice!

Rubio

3:43 PM

nice @Techidiot

Deusovi

Oh, nice!

Should I add it to my answer?

Sid

The cards- Could it be Diamond Club? Am not sure, about the Sub, though..

Rubio

I'm done updating mine, yours is the running answer now

I was starting to think of it being something about decks of a sub

Chris Cudmore

Below Decks?

TheGreatEscaper

Hehe

Rubio

3:45 PM

@ChrisCudmore nah

I had thought though of my own: "GET" under one of those two card piles

= get below deck

Deusovi

"decks around [synonym for sub]"?????

Chris Cudmore

around is a synonym for sub?

Deusovi

Ah!

SUBINDEX

Rubio

AHH

good one @Deusovi

TheGreatEscaper

Speeeeeeedy progress! Good fun listening to you all chuck ideas around :)

Rubio

3:46 PM

these are .... weird. :)

what the

TheGreatEscaper

I'm weird, Rubio. :P

Deusovi

Box drawing?

Box-drawing character

Box-drawing characters, also known as line-drawing characters, are a form of semigraphics widely used in text user interfaces to draw various geometric frames and boxes. In graphical user interfaces, these characters are much less useful as it is much simpler to draw lines and rectangles directly with graphical APIs. Box-drawing characters work only with monospaced fonts; however, they are still useful for plaintext comments on websites. Used along with box-drawing characters are block elements, shade characters, and terminal graphic characters. These can be used for filling regions of the screen...

Rubio

i haven't upvoted th is yet. +!

Not a fan of pencil box, eh

I'm not sure ... it seems something like that though

TheGreatEscaper

Ill give you a hint, that's not a box.

Rubio

oh. well then.

Deusovi

3:48 PM

...square?

Techidiot

Cant it be SUBDIVIDED/SUBDIVISION? Hmm but Subindex sounds better

Deusovi

@Techidiot That wouldn't make use of the cards

TheGreatEscaper

It's not a square or shape either.

Khale_Kitha

@Deusovi replied

Techidiot

Yeah

Sid

3:48 PM

A piece of paper?

Rubio

but...but.... it is :)

"check out" :)

Silenus

What do you guys think about using "catches" to clue a charade, as in: "X catches Y" = XY. Fair or no?

TheGreatEscaper

I think this one is the rebus I'm the most iffy about, but I still think the answer will be clear when you get it.

Deusovi

@Silenus I don't think so. A container, maybe, but not a charade.

Rubio

@Silenus I wouldn't - it's basically padding

TheGreatEscaper

3:49 PM

Otherwise, you could try moving onto step two with one rebus unsolved.

Rubio

"with", "by", "next to" maybe

Chris Cudmore

@Silenus Yeah, What @Deusovi said. use with or adds

Silenus

@Deusovi, You're right it seems like a container.

Deusovi

"Connections should be formed by triples, please"

Chris Cudmore

follows, leads.

x leads y

Deusovi

3:50 PM

Triples... qualities that several of the rebuses share?

For instance, "down" in "land down under", "downhearted", and... "subindex"

TheGreatEscaper

Boldy bold is attention seeking.

Khale_Kitha

Working on a theory on that part, actually

Rubio

@TheGreatEscaper It's ... a unicode character not available in your font. So it's "drawing a blank". NAILED IT.

Deusovi

...That could be it.

TheGreatEscaper

:D

Rubio

3:51 PM

If that's it I'll eat this hat.

TheGreatEscaper

Like I said, it's the one I'm most iffy about.

Rubio

That better not be a blank :)

Deusovi

Rubio, time to get chewing

TheGreatEscaper

i wanted it to be a blank card.

Rubio

oh dear God

Deusovi

3:51 PM

I'd've used an underscore

that's terrible :)

like ___

ditto

Ohhhhh yeah.

thats much better.

cringes

Rubio

That's why I was making the joke hehe

Well, solved is solved.

TheGreatEscaper

3:52 PM

eek. XD at least the other 8 seemed enjoyable.

Rubio

Oh, that was enjoyable too - just not exactly in the intended way :)

Deusovi

It was enjoyable! Just... in a slightly different way from the others :P

heh

TheGreatEscaper

'Accidentally found' savage, @Deusovi :P

Rubio

^ ninjad

Deusovi

the "please" is suspicious for me

TheGreatEscaper

3:53 PM

Do you know what you're generally trying to do in step 2?

Deusovi

Assemble the pieces... somehow.

I would say to make a cube (so three pieces meet at each corner), but that wouldn't work with nine pieces.

Rubio

triples and please share 4 letters

Deusovi

Unless you're doing something with noneuclidean geometry, which... seems unlikely.

TheGreatEscaper

Eek. A square representing a blank, yes, but no non-Euclidean jigsaws!

I'm not that strange.

quickly hides my stash of Klein bottles

Deusovi

...I'm just gonna write that down in puzzleideas.txt then

Khale_Kitha

3:56 PM

To give you a different idea, Deu - this is what I have so far, on my idea.... See if you can see the 3's

Deusovi

Yeah, I'd thought of that. Seemed weird to me, though

And we still don't know if rotations are allowed.

Khale_Kitha

Haven't done any rotations, but yeah

TheGreatEscaper

Hey, I didn't make rebukes for nothing.

*rebuses

Khale_Kitha

Deusovi

(Oh also, I responded to you, @Khale_Kitha)

TheGreatEscaper

3:59 PM

I might add one word into instruction 2 to remove a bit of ambiguity, sorry fellas!

Okay, actually 3.

Deusovi

Ooh.

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