ANSWERS: Rebus Buster 2

Thirteen days have passed by since "Rebus Buster 2" (complete with artwork made by me) was posted on this blog, and since then, fifteen people have correctly solved it, including the first person to take advantage of my simplified hint system that launched last April:

• Grant Fikes
• Cindy Heisler
• Dave C.
• Tyler Hinman
• Kevin Orfield
• Patrick Jordan
• Mama Ellen
• Sam Levitin
• Karen Spencer
• Mom
• Tamara Brenner
• Al Sisti
• Marich
• Seth Christenfeld
• Peter Abide [Hints Used]

Now head below the break for the answers as well as a solver's comment!

PUZZLE #334: Rebus Buster 2

PUZZLE #334

REBUS BUSTER 2

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:  the name of a film from 1999

CLUES

• Artilleryman on a pirate ship

• Truthful attribute embodied by Applejack from My Little Pony

• NBA team based in North Carolina

• Jack who played the Joker in Batman (1989)

• Spoof by MAD Magazine such as "Makeus Sickby, M.D."

• Island country in Southeast Asia that's technically a city-state

Once you believe you've figured out the FINAL ANSWER, 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 even ask for a hint, though you'll be marked as having used one if you do so) 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 link to a .PDF version which you can print out!

ANSWERS: Rebus Buster

Pictured above: one of the bosses to Mario & Luigi: SUPERSTAR Saga

It's been two weeks since my tribute to Classic Concentration, "Rebus Buster", was posted on this blog, and a whopping eleven people since then have successfully solved it, as you can see in the list below:

• Grant Fikes ****
• M. Sean Molley ****
• Chris Hendricks ****
• Tyler Hinman ****
• Sam Levitin ****
• Patrick Jordan ****
• Mom ****
• Eric Maddy ****
• Lynn Sweeney ***
• Dan Simonds ****
• Debbie Benford ****

Now head below the break for the answers as well as some solver comments!

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!