Monday, November 5, 2018

NEWVEMBER! PUZZLE #203: Rebus Buster

NEWVEMBER!
PUZZLE #203
REBUS BUSTER

Yep, it's another theme month! This time, every puzzle that will be posted this month will be all-new to this blog, and the first puzzle is a tribute of sorts to one of my favorite game shows as a kid. You see, one month ago, on October 1st, Buzzr TV began airing reruns of Classic Concentration, which hasn't been on in almost 25 years. Now, my cable TV provider doesn't carry Buzzr, but luckily, I'm still able to watch it thanks to Buzzr providing live streaming of their network on their website. Now with that history out of the way, read on for the directions!

Below are 20 seemingly unrelated pictures that are actually several rebuses jumbled up together. First, find the answers to the clues below. Then find the pictures that combine to make a rebus which matches each answer and cross them out. For instance, if one of the answers is PANTRY, then you should cross out the pictures that represent "PAN" [🍳] and "TREE" [🌲]. Beware of tricky homophones along the way!

Once all the clues have been solved and most of the pictures have been crossed out, the remaining pictures should create a rebus that will form the FINAL ANSWER: a three-word title of a video game that first came out 20 years ago


CLUES
* Greek goddess whose Roman equivalent is Venus
* Rock band whose 1999 album Make Yourself went double platinum
* Coins that are only 2.5% copper, surprisingly
* Tiny, one-eyed SpongeBob SquarePants character
* Brand-new baseball player, say
* Mario & Luigi: _____ Saga (Game Boy Advance game)

Once you think you know what the FINAL ANSWER is, send it to either redhead64@chartermi.net or itsredhead64@gmail.com (though I'm more likely to check the second one) and I'll put your name on a solvers list once I post the answers in about two weeks. You can also use those email addresses to give me some comments and feedback (or get a hint from me in exchange for a "hint star", more details for that are on the sidebar to the right) or send me the answer to last week's puzzle, if you haven't already figured it out. If you have a printer and want to solve this puzzle on paper, just head below the break for a version you can print out!

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