Rebus puzzle is a type of a French puzzle
which consists of various parts such as little pictures, letters, numbers,
symbols and geometric figures. Rebus puzzles made with these parts cryptically
represent a word.
The first collection of rebus puzzles was
published in 1582 by French poet Etienne Tabouro. After that rebus puzzles
became popular in the neighboring countries: Germany, England and Italy.
In 1783 at
Hodson’s publishing house in London English illustrator Thomas Bewick released
the Bible for children which represented the events of Holy Scripture in a form
of rebus-puzzles. This Bible was called Hieroglyphic.
In 1788
American writer Isaiah Thomas produced hieroglyphic Bible in the USA.
Eventually
rebus puzzles became very popular. For example English writer Lewis Carroll
often resorted to hundreds of rebus puzzles in his letters. Rebus puzzle
designs were printed on cards, plates, advertising boards.
Although
the popularity of rebus puzzles has decreased as the result of the growing
video games industry, puzzles are still very good instrument for the brain
development.
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