Three simple word pictures this week. Which well known phrases are represented by the following…..
sta4nce
Give Get
Give Get
Give Get
Give Get
12345678
12safety78
12345678
As ever, please say if you think you have solved them and how long it took, but don’t post your answers. I will give the solutions on Monday. Have a good weekend. Finally, here is another great colour contrast illusion from tonicblue.
Oh, and feel free to post your own word picture puzzles…
July 10, 2009 at 7:25 am |
I figured out the first and third ones pretty quickly, I’d say under 2 minutes. I think I know the second one, but it didn’t click for me as satisfyingly as the other two did.
July 10, 2009 at 7:25 am |
Yes! I know this week is ridiculously easy compared to normal but I still feel big and clever I figured it out after thirty odd seconds.
July 10, 2009 at 7:26 am |
hmm. . . not sure about the first one, though i may have it. other two i managed without much trouble. i enjoy these types of puzzles.
July 10, 2009 at 7:27 am |
I’m stuck on the 3rd, just got the 2nd (after a minute or so?), and got the 1st right away.
July 10, 2009 at 7:27 am |
I got them all. Probably took about a minute.
July 10, 2009 at 7:27 am |
haha, i was wrong. . . finally got the first one. . .
July 10, 2009 at 7:29 am |
i bet there is a follow up question about the photo. . . .
July 10, 2009 at 7:36 am |
OK I just looked at it again and this time it was obvious to me what the second one is.
July 10, 2009 at 7:38 am |
Got each one as I looked at them.
Too easy this week.
July 10, 2009 at 7:38 am |
These were fun. Numbers 1 and 3 I had immediately, No. 2 took a bit longer.
But what’s with the horse with rubber gloves, holding an ill-tempered cat (by the sea)?
July 10, 2009 at 7:42 am |
Got them all really quickly. What happened to the ludicrously easy algebra one you put up earlier?
July 10, 2009 at 7:49 am |
Hi. My first visit you the website. Once I’d got over the distraction of the seahorse photo, I solved the puzzles within 30 seconds
July 10, 2009 at 7:51 am |
Seahorse and catfish?
July 10, 2009 at 7:56 am |
Numbers one and two came straight away, but number 3 took a little more time. When it did, there was that satisying ‘a-ha’ moment.
July 10, 2009 at 8:01 am |
I had to re-read the question (still waking up and I thought the question related to the picture when I first read it) but then got each within 5 seconds of looking at them. Quite like them. I think I got them quickly as I once set a quiz which involved me making up about 20 of the same sorts of thing
July 10, 2009 at 8:02 am |
45 45 45 1 45 45 45 econds 1 1 1 1 1
1 minutes minutes 1 minutes
Last 2221222 econds
July 10, 2009 at 8:06 am |
To Fergus Gallagher – I solved your 30″ fish problem in about 20 seconds BTW
July 10, 2009 at 8:14 am |
Got them in about 30 seconds, too easy this week.
July 10, 2009 at 8:14 am |
About 30 seconds for all of them together.
July 10, 2009 at 8:23 am |
Seconds, these are getting too easy!
) None as subtle or interesting as the clock puzzle from a few weeks ago.
This one needs Roy Walker saying “say what you see!”
July 10, 2009 at 8:27 am |
Got 2 straight away (I think as it’s most like olde fashoined dingbats), 1 took a tad longer, but as soon as that clicked so did 3. Total time: 1 minute-ish.
July 10, 2009 at 8:28 am |
@Nick – it wasn’t MY puzzle. It was on this page for a short while before being replaced by the current one…
July 10, 2009 at 8:34 am |
About half a minute. Took a while for 1 to click.
July 10, 2009 at 8:51 am |
Got them all in just under a minute, woo!
July 10, 2009 at 8:54 am |
This only took me about 25 seconds, and I’m Dutch. Getting used to these, I presume.
July 10, 2009 at 8:54 am |
I do a lot of this type of puzzle so it wasn’t much of a challenge. The last one was clever and caused a few giggles.
Will pass these on to my students to see what happens.
July 10, 2009 at 8:55 am |
Do people actually time themselves on this???
How would you actually know how much time has elapsed? That would make for some interesting research
July 10, 2009 at 9:03 am |
I got the second one quickest. The first and third took a bit longer, but once I got the third the first one clicked straight away.
July 10, 2009 at 9:03 am |
Got 1 and 2 as a looked at them 3 took 20- 30 seconds
July 10, 2009 at 9:19 am |
About 15 seconds. On no sleep in the past 24. Maybe having 80% of my brain in power saving mode helped.
July 10, 2009 at 9:19 am |
10seconds? well, as soon as I read them anyway. much easier than usual! (or maybe my coffee’s just a bit stronger this morning…)
July 10, 2009 at 9:28 am |
that’s unfair! what if you’re not a native English-speaker?
July 10, 2009 at 9:40 am |
10 or 15 seconds. Did any one else play Dingbats as a child? I’m sure each of these must have been in there some where.
July 10, 2009 at 9:40 am |
It’s not so simply form me… I do not know so well English!
July 10, 2009 at 9:41 am |
I almost gave up before I started on this, but actually it wasn’t that hard. I got these. I am happy.
July 10, 2009 at 10:02 am |
Got them pretty quickly 30 secs or so. Interesting the order in which peeps solved the puzzle – For me, the easiest one was the 2nd, then the third, then finally the 1st, and like others I was initially perplexed at the inclusion of the picture.
July 10, 2009 at 10:08 am |
For some reason I get this type of puzzle very quickly, but the maths ones take me ages. Did this in about 15 seconds
July 10, 2009 at 10:14 am |
About 20 seconds for all of them.
July 10, 2009 at 10:15 am |
Got them fairly quickly. I like these.
July 10, 2009 at 10:16 am
Just thought that ‘fairly quickly’ is not actually a measurement of time!
Took about 20-30 seconds.
July 10, 2009 at 10:15 am |
First two < a minute. Took a couple of minutes to mull over the third one
July 10, 2009 at 10:42 am |
Got first two straight away,had to mull over the third for a second or two.
July 10, 2009 at 10:47 am |
First one immediately, second took maybe 20 seconds, while the third took me quite a while for some reason.
July 10, 2009 at 10:50 am |
About a minute.
July 10, 2009 at 11:00 am |
Wow! I did it in about 30 to 45 seconds, found them pretty easy but probably because I know the methods from years of dingbats and the like.
I’m still chuffed I got them!
July 10, 2009 at 11:14 am |
Under 5 seconds for all four four four four.
adthanksvance,
Mike
July 10, 2009 at 11:25 am |
For some reason I got the first two almost instant (getting the second one first and the then the first one), probably about 4 or 5 seconds. But then it took me ages (like about an additional minute) to get the third one and I felt really stupid! Although it is just a rationalisation, I think the numbers in the third one all end in 8 slowed me down. (i.e. I thought that was somehow significant).
Very good though!
July 10, 2009 at 11:28 am |
Same as adulQahhar…too easy…Buggered by the fish one though
July 10, 2009 at 11:52 am |
Got the first two in seconds, and the third in tens of seconds.
To the best of your knowledge, has anyone ever handed out a piece of paper containing NINE questions of this type and another piece of paper with space allocated for TEN answers, the point being that the correct answer for number ten is the phrase “No Question” ?
Last time I attended a quiz night with some friends, this struck me as a pretty obvious thing to do. But I’ve never heard of anyone actually doing it.
July 10, 2009 at 12:20 pm |
The first and third were easy and quite similar. The 2nd took me slightly longer to figure out. No longer than a minute to work them out. I love this style of puzzle.
July 10, 2009 at 12:28 pm |
The cat was going to do the weather report, but he got a little … hoarse.
July 10, 2009 at 12:56 pm |
3 instantly, 2 next, 1 after 2 minutes or so.
July 10, 2009 at 1:04 pm |
I got the first and second puzzle fairly quickly, but I’m not sure about the third one. If my answer is correct, you wouldn’t really need the first and third line. The 30 inch fish one was easy.
July 10, 2009 at 1:40 pm |
I actually nailed a weekly puzzle and really quickly to boot.
July 10, 2009 at 1:44 pm |
Triple dose of easy right there. Got them all in 30 seconds.
July 10, 2009 at 1:45 pm |
Got answers in less than a minute. Remains to be seen if I also got them right…
July 10, 2009 at 1:49 pm |
Too easy, 10 seconds max
July 10, 2009 at 2:08 pm |
Got all of them in about a minute or so. What a photo!
July 10, 2009 at 2:17 pm |
Sure is a nice sea horse. More by the same artist (in higher resolution too) here: http://www.richardhellergallery.com/dynamic/artist.asp?ArtistID=53
July 10, 2009 at 3:04 pm |
Figured out the word picture puzzles in less than 10 seconds yeah
July 10, 2009 at 3:08 pm |
I think I have an answer for the fish one. Maybe. Probably not.
July 10, 2009 at 4:04 pm |
Got them all immediately, including the fish problem which appears in the RSS instead of the word pictures.
July 10, 2009 at 4:11 pm |
more or less instant for 1 & 3
number 2 took a good 5 mins!
July 10, 2009 at 4:24 pm |
Got just the second one (in about a minute)
greetings from germany
July 10, 2009 at 4:41 pm |
10 seconds for all three.
July 10, 2009 at 5:04 pm |
Took me about 5 seconds for all three. I love these, though! Here are a few more:
dSeAtTaAiNls
kool t’nod
July 10, 2009 at 5:14 pm |
Solved them all in less than one-half minute.
July 10, 2009 at 5:42 pm |
Didn’t know these ones, but have seen similar.
15-25s
July 10, 2009 at 5:45 pm |
I came across this: http://www.toplessrobot.com/2009/07/the_10_most_ridiculously_difficult_encyclopedia_br.php
And I thought some other puzzle-enjoyers might like it too, especially #9
July 10, 2009 at 6:19 pm |
Easy peasy this week Richard. Or maybe my brain is just functioning in the correct puzzle mode today!
July 10, 2009 at 6:44 pm |
I got them all pretty much the instant I looked at them. Having said that, I spent an excessive amount of time doing these sorts of puzzles as a child, so maybe that helped somewhat!
July 10, 2009 at 8:18 pm |
I would say that it took me about 3 minutes.
July 10, 2009 at 8:23 pm |
Woohoo. Did it…. now why the strange horse picture? Not that I;m complaining as its awesome.
July 10, 2009 at 9:34 pm |
I solved them as I read them. Which makes up for not solving the tiger puzzle at all last weekend. ( I wasn’t even close.)
July 10, 2009 at 10:35 pm |
That was cool. I haven’t done any of these before so I feel a little smug (haha) that I got them in less than 30 seconds.
Now if only there was a way to make money with this ability!!
July 11, 2009 at 7:14 am
First and third took about 15-20 seconds each, and middle puzzle an agonizing minute until I allowed myself to relax and expand my mind. Love your tweets, YouTube postings, and blog!
July 11, 2009 at 1:12 am |
[...] It’s the Friday puzzle! Three simple word pictures this week. Which well known phrases are represented by the following….. sta4nce Give [...] [...]
July 11, 2009 at 1:31 am |
Got them in a minute. I love doing these types of puzzles.
July 11, 2009 at 6:07 am |
The 1st one is tricky. I think I got it but my interpretation doesn’t seem perfectly right. I got the 3rd one first and got my answers for all three within a minute…or 59 seconds. I also love these kinds of puzzles
July 11, 2009 at 8:56 am |
Got them….:)
July 11, 2009 at 3:42 pm |
About 4 seconds for the first one, about 10 seconds for the second, and about 4 seconds for the third.
All in all, roughly 20 seconds
July 11, 2009 at 4:09 pm |
Also about twenty second. Takes me back to all the time I spent playing Dingbats when I was little
July 12, 2009 at 1:54 am |
I got it. It was about 30 seconds total.
July 12, 2009 at 10:32 am |
Well, I got numbers 1 and 3 and feel pretty dumb as everyone else seems to have gotten them all immediately.
I know the second will pop into my head at some point today when I’m not thinking about it. I have an answer for the fish question. Seems right to me. I really enjoy algebra, so I did it that way. Although, knowing these puzzles, algebra was unnecessary, and a more careful reading of the question would have shown that. Oh well.
July 12, 2009 at 3:21 pm |
This site is quickly becoming a joke.
I love you, Richard, I really do.
But c’mon – recycling gramma’s puzzles? You could try something a LITTLE more original.
July 12, 2009 at 8:21 pm |
I think I got them but it took me about 3 minutes.
July 13, 2009 at 12:35 am |
english is not my first language and i didn’t get the first one, but the others were very easy.
July 13, 2009 at 1:47 am |
All of the word puzzles effectively instantly.
But the picture eludes me.
July 15, 2009 at 7:30 pm |
Maybe 30 seconds…
August 19, 2009 at 12:33 am |
Took me over 5 weeks since I didn’t see the post until about 30 seconds ago.