Puzzles on the history of the fatherland (collection). History of the rebus Historical puzzles

"Rebus - a schoolboy's friend"

Project Manager: Sobolevskaya Tatyana Semenovna,

primary school teacher

Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra, Langepas

Langepass city Municipal budgetary educational institution

"Secondary school No. 1"

Annotation

“Everything that is unknown is terribly interesting”

Rebuses have long held a place of honor among entertaining tasks and puzzles. The word “rebus” itself has become a common noun to denote everything incomprehensible, mysterious, and intricate.

Rebuses are a game in which words, phrases or entire statements are encrypted using pictures combined with letters, figures and signs.

Hypothesis

Our working hypothesis was the assumption that the ability to solve puzzles will help us and our classmates expand the range of knowledge, educational skills, skills, and prepare for various types of competitions, olympiads and quizzes.

Project goal

Project objectives

Conduct a study among students in grades 2-4 on the topic “What do you know about puzzles?”

Find out the history of the origin of puzzles.

Learn the rules for solving puzzles.

Master the methods of solving puzzles.

Teach peers to solve puzzles.

Create an information booklet “Rebuses”.

Present the results in the form of a presentation and tell your classmates about them.

Research methods:

Studying literature.

Working with Internet resources.

Sociological survey.

Practical work.

Research Plan

Rebuses is a game in which words, phrases or entire statements are encrypted using drawings in combination with letters, figures and signs.

Rebuses are used when studying letters and syllables, training continuous reading, memorizing new words and spellings.

The rebus is a means of developing attention and memory. With the ability to independently compose puzzles, logical thinking and creativity develop.

Hypothesis

Our working hypothesis was the assumption that the ability to solve puzzles would help us and our classmates expand the range of knowledge, educational skills, skills, and prepare for various types of competitions, olympiads, and quizzes.

Project goal

Find out the history of puzzles, learn how to solve puzzles yourself and teach others.

Project objectives

1. Conduct research among 2nd grade students on the topic “What do you know about puzzles?”

2. Find out the history of the origin of puzzles.

3. Study the rules for solving puzzles.

4. Master the methods of solving puzzles.

5. Teach peers to solve puzzles.

6. Create an information booklet “Rebuses”.

7. Present the results in the form of a presentation and tell your classmates about them.

While working on the project, we became acquainted with literature and other information sources on the chosen topic. In them we found information about the history of the origin of puzzles, learned the rules for solving puzzles, and also found answers to many questions that arose.

We conducted a survey among 2nd grade students “What do you know about puzzles?” For this purpose, a questionnaire was compiled.

Questionnaire

Do you know where and how the first puzzles appeared?

Do you know why people make puzzles?

Can you solve puzzles?

Do you want to learn how to solve puzzles?

Do you know where you can apply this knowledge?

Do you know what kind of puzzles there are?

(Appendix 1)

The survey results are presented in chart form.

During our work, for elementary school children who wanted to learn how to solve puzzles, we created reminders with rules for solving puzzles (Appendix 2).

For everyone who is interested in this topic, we have compiled an information booklet (Appendix 3).

The results of the work are presented in the form of a presentation and presented during class hours. (Appendix 4).

Based on the identified results, we gained experience working with scientific literature, Internet resources, and experience working with programs: Microsoft Office Word; Microsoft Office Power Point. We have collected information about the history of puzzles. We presented the collected material in the form of a presentation and booklet.

Scientific article

The history of the appearance of puzzles.

The first puzzles appeared in France in the 15th century. Then it was a farce show on the topic of the day. In an allegorical form, the comedians ridiculed the vices and weaknesses of the powerful, and talked “about the things that are going on.” Over time, the nature of the rebus changed. A pun based on a play on words began to be called a rebus.

Around the same time, the first drawn puzzles appeared. Initially, they literally illustrated well-known phraseological units; later, more complex variants appeared.

In the 16th century, drawn puzzles became known in England, Germany, and Italy.

Professional artists took part in their design. The first printed collection of puzzles appeared in France in 1582.

They appeared in Russia later - in the middle of the 19th century. A special magazine, Rebus, began to be published.

Types of puzzles.

Puzzles-riddles.

Rebus-riddles represent a double task: having solved the rebus, you will read the riddle, but the riddle must be solved.

Add and subtract puzzles.

“Add and subtract” puzzles differ from ordinary ones in that the value of the image following the minus sign is not added to the already obtained combination of words, but subtracted from it.

Rebus jokes.

This is a comic riddle in verse.

Puzzles-proverbs.

Proverb puzzles are an encrypted proverb that needs to be unraveled and its meaning explained.

Sound puzzle.

These are riddle exercises that allow you to practice the skill of merging syllables.

Rebus - story.

A story rebus consists of a large puzzle that needs to be solved and a story made up.

Rebus problem.

This is a puzzle that needs to be solved and the problem solved. It consists of several puzzles.

Number puzzles.

These are puzzles that improve the ability to understand and comprehend the positional principle when writing numbers in the decimal system.

Materials and methods.

We interviewed 47 people. 2nd grade students took part in the study.

The study took place during the second quarter of the 2013-2014 academic year (November, December).

Students were given a questionnaire that contained the following questions:

Table 1.

Question

Students' answers

1. Do you know where and how the first puzzles appeared?

2. Do you know why people make puzzles?

3. Can you solve puzzles?

4. Do you want to learn how to solve puzzles?

5. Do you know where you can apply this knowledge?

6. Do you know what kind of puzzles there are?

Figure No. 1. Distribution of answers from second grade students.

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municipal educational institution

"Secondary school No. 18

Traktorozavodsky district of Volgograd"

VII International

educational and practical conference

"First Steps"

The wonderful world of puzzles

Completed by: students of grade 9 “B”

Vasilyeva Elena Sergeevna

Head: mathematics teacher

Startseva Tatyana Alexandrovna

Volgograd 2017/2018

Introduction - pages 3 - 4

The history of puzzles - pp. 4 - 5

What does the word rebus mean? - pages 5 - 6

Rules for composing and solving puzzles - pp. 6 - 12

Self-composed puzzles in mathematics - pp. 12 - 14

Results of a survey of students in grades 8 “B” and 8 “A” - pp. 15 - 17

Conclusion - pp. 17-18

List of used literature - page 18

1.Introduction.

We apply mathematical knowledge not only in mathematics lessons, but also in everyday life. We are lucky that we like mathematics. However, the difficulty for us comes from problems that require logical reasoning to solve. We read that a person can develop any of his abilities, to one degree or another. How to develop mathematical abilities? On the Internet we found a lot of statements of this nature:

- “To develop mathematical abilities, it is necessary to solve mental problems, joke problems, mathematical puzzles and puzzles.”

- “Solving puzzles is an excellent gymnastics for developing a student’s intelligence.”

“Solving puzzles perfectly stimulates the development of intelligence, develops the ability to make logical conclusions, and teaches thinking.”

We decided that solving various puzzles would help us develop our math skills.

Topic:"The fascinating world of puzzles."

Relevance of the topic: The school mathematics course does not cover puzzles, and in mathematics lessons it is necessary to solve problems not only according to certain rules, but also non-standard problems.

Target: learn to solve mathematical puzzles.

Tasks:

Find and study various sources with information about puzzles;

Study puzzles of various types;

Explore possible ways to solve puzzles.

Create your own puzzles using the rules of composition.

Create an album-folder “Mathematical puzzles through the eyes of eighth-graders.”

Hypothesis: Solving puzzles will help us develop logical thinking.

Problem: Mathematics is always considered a difficult subject to understand. Some students have difficulty remembering definition rules and formulas.
Students' abilities to memorize educational material vary greatly. Compiling and solving puzzles when studying mathematics allows students to develop attention, observation, logical and creative thinking, and make the learning process more interesting.

Object of study: math puzzles

Subject of research: methods and methods for composing and solving mathematical puzzles.

Research methods: study of various sources of information, analysis, synthesis and systematization of material.

2. The history of puzzles.

An early form of the rebus is found in picture writing, in which abstract words, difficult to depict, were represented by images of objects whose names were pronounced in a similar way. Such puzzles are similar to the hieroglyphs of Egypt and the pictographs of early China. Images of rebuses were used to convey the names of cities on Greek and Roman coins, or to indicate family surnames in the Middle Ages. The history of rebuses began a long time ago. In the 15th century in France, a rebus was a name given to farcical performances. Later, in the 16th century, such fun was prohibited and a pun based on a play on words began to be called a rebus. Often it was a riddle consisting of images of various objects, numbers or letters. And guessing such a word was not so easy. In this form the rebus has come down to us. In 1783, the English artist and engraver Thomas Bewick printed an unusual Bible for children in the London printing house of T. Hodgson. He retells the events of Holy Scripture in the form of puzzles. Such a Bible began to be called “hieroglyphic”. In the text, some words are replaced with pictures. A few years later, in 1788, the American publisher Isaiah Thomas publishes the hieroglyphic Bible overseas. Such unusual hieroglyphic Bibles became very popular at the end of the 18th century, as they made it easier and more interesting to teach the Holy Scriptures to children. The well-known author of the fairy tales “Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” Lewis Carroll, often used puzzles in his correspondence with young readers . In his letters, he often replaced some words with pictures or depicted letters in a mirror image.

display. Reading such mysterious letters required ingenuity, which, of course, the children really liked. In the second half of the 19th century, rebuses began to be widely used in society. It is interesting that even during the war, rebuses were held in high esteem. During the Great Patriotic War, in 1942, the Moscow printing factory of the Moskvoretsky industrial trade produced a collection of puzzles by A.A. Ryazanov “In leisure hours: puzzles” (illustrations by I. Telyatnikov). They were intended for adults. In 1945, after the end of the war, a small brochure by artist-illustrator and illusionist Georgy Kelsievich Bedarev “Rebuses” was published. In the post-war period, puzzles began to focus on children's audiences. Currently, puzzles are intended for both adults and children. It is difficult to find a children's magazine or educational manual that does not contain puzzles. Children are often given similar tasks at school and are even given the task of coming up with puzzles. Puzzles are a means of increasing information culture. By independently composing puzzles, information search skills, creativity, and intellectual abilities are developed.

3. What does the word rebus mean?

Rebus (from the Latin “rebus” - “with the help of things”), the representation of a word or syllable using an image of an object, the name of which is consonant with the represented word or syllable. Simply put, it is a riddle in which unraveled words or expressions in the form of pictures are combined with letters and some other symbols.

Types of puzzles.

Rebus riddles present a double task: having solved the rebus, you will read the riddle, but the riddle must be solved.

“Add and subtract” puzzles differ from ordinary ones in that the value of the image following the minus sign is not added to the already obtained combination of words, but subtracted from it.

Joke puzzles are a comic riddle in verse.

Proverb puzzles are an encrypted proverb that needs to be unraveled and its meaning explained.

Sound rebus is a riddle exercise that allows you to practice the skill of merging syllables.

A story rebus consists of a large puzzle that needs to be solved and a story made up.

A rebus problem is a puzzle that needs to be solved and a problem solved. It consists of several puzzles.

Numerical puzzles are puzzles that improve the ability to understand and comprehend the positional principle when writing numbers in the decimal system.

4. Rules for composing and solving puzzles.

In order to solve and compose puzzles, you need to know the rules and techniques that are used in composing them. Read and remember these rules. For greater clarity, some of them are illustrated with examples.

1. The names of all objects depicted in the rebus are read only in the nominative case and singular. Sometimes the desired object in the picture is indicated by an arrow.

2. Very often, an object depicted in a rebus may have not one, but two or more names, for example “eye” and “eye”, “leg” and “paw”, etc. Or it may have one general and one specific name, for example, “wood” and “oak,” “note” and “D,” etc. You need to choose the one that makes sense.

The ability to identify and correctly name the object shown in the picture is one of the main difficulties when deciphering puzzles. In addition to knowing the rules, you will need ingenuity and logic.

3. Sometimes the name of an object cannot be used in its entirety - it is necessary to discard one or two letters at the beginning or end of the word. In these cases, the symbol used is a comma. If the comma is to the left of the picture, then this means that the first letter of its name must be discarded; if it is to the right of the picture, then the last letter. If there are two commas, then two letters are discarded accordingly, etc. For example, a “yoke” is drawn, you only need to read “whirlpool”, a “sail” is drawn, you only need to read “steam”.

4. If two objects or two letters are drawn one inside the other, then their names are read with the addition of the preposition “in”. For example: “v-oh-yes”, or “not-in-a”, or “in-oh-seven”:

In this and the next five examples, different readings are possible, for example, instead of “eight” you can read “SEVEN”, and instead of “water” you can read “DAVO”. But such words do not exist! This is where ingenuity and logic should come to your aid.

5. If any letter consists of another letter, then read with the addition of “from”. For example: “iz-b-a” or “vn-iz-u” or “f-iz-ik”:

6. If behind a letter or object there is another letter or object, then you need to read it with the addition of “for”.

For example: “Ka-za-n”, “za-ya-ts”.

7. If one figure or letter is drawn under another, then you need to read it with the addition of “on”, “above” or “under” - choose a preposition according to its meaning. For example: “fo-na-ri” or “pod-u-shka”:

The phrase: “Tit found a horseshoe and gave it to Nastya” can be depicted like this:

8. If another letter is written after a letter, then read it with the addition of “by”. For example: “po-r-t”, “po-l-e”, “po-ya-s”:

9. If one letter lies next to another, leaning against it, then read with the addition of “u”. For example: “L-u-k”, “d-u-b”:

10. If in a rebus there is an image of an object drawn upside down, then its name must be read from the end. For example, “cat” is drawn, you need to read “current”, “nose” is drawn, you need to read “dream”.

11. If an object is drawn, and a letter is written next to it and then crossed out, this means that this letter must be eliminated from the resulting word. If there is another letter above the crossed out letter, this means that you need to replace the crossed out letter with it. Sometimes in this case an equal sign is placed between the letters. For example: “eye” we read “gas”, “bone” we read “guest”:

12. If there are numbers above the picture, for example, 4, 2, 3, 1, then this means that the fourth letter of the name of the object shown in the picture is read first, then the second, followed by the third, etc., that is the letters are read in the order indicated by the numbers. For example, a “mushroom” is drawn, we read “brig”:

13. If next to the picture there are two numbers with arrows pointing in different directions, it means that in the word the letters indicated by the numbers must be swapped. For example, "lock" = "dab".

14. The use of an arrow going from one letter to another also serves to indicate the corresponding replacement of letters. The arrow can also be deciphered as the preposition “K”. For example, “The letters AP go to FIR” = “DROPS”

15. When composing a rebus, Roman numerals can also be used. For example, “forty A” we read “forty”.

16. If any figure in a rebus is drawn running, sitting, lying, etc., then to the name of this figure you must add the corresponding verb in the third person of the present tense (running, sitting, lying, etc.), for example “ r-runs.”

17. Very often in puzzles there are separate

The syllables “do”, “re”, “mi”, “fa” are represented by the corresponding notes. For example, words written in notes read: “do-la”, “fa-sol”:

Since not everyone knows the notes and position on the stave, we present their names.

Other characters are also possible in puzzles: names of chemical elements, all kinds of scientific terms, special symbols: “@” - dog, “#” - sharp, “%” - percentage, “&” - ampersand, “()” - parentheses, “ ~" - tilde, ":)" - emoticon, "§" - paragraph and others.

In complex puzzles, the listed techniques are most often combined.

“The red maiden sits in prison, and the scythe is on the street”

5.Self-composed puzzles in mathematics.

Perimeter

2. Triangle

Height(s)

Numerator

5.Denominator

I=E, P=N

Rebuses is a means of increasing information culture. By independently composing puzzles, information retrieval skills, creativity, and intellectual abilities are developed.

6.Results of a survey of students in grades 8 “B” and 8 “A”.

Among students in grades 8 “B” and 8 “A,” we conducted a survey “What do you know about puzzles?” For this purpose, a questionnaire was compiled.

Questionnaire

7. Do you know where you can apply this knowledge?
The survey results are presented in chart form.

During our work, for eighth-graders who wanted to learn how to solve puzzles, we created reminders with the rules for solving puzzles. We interviewed 25 people. Students of grades 8 “B” and 8 “A” took part in the study.

Table 1.

Figure No. 1. Distribution of answers from students in grades 8 “B” and 8 “A”.

Having studied the results of the questionnaire, we were convinced of the practical significance of the project, since the students wanted to learn how to solve puzzles. We invited these children to first get acquainted with the rules for solving rebuses, and then choose the word they liked from the mathematics course and depict it in the form of a rebus. Everyone willingly completed this work, and we created a folder-album “Math puzzles through the eyes of eighth-graders.” After choosing the topic of the project, it was decided to start each mathematics lesson with a rebus that would interest us in the topic of the lesson, develop mathematical thinking, intelligence,

stimulated creative activity. The teacher notes that our vocabulary is expanding, attention and imaginative thinking are developing. Compiling a puzzle is mental work. Sometimes this takes a long time. But what pleasure do you get when the puzzle is solved? From childhood you need to solve puzzles, this will help develop mathematical abilities.

7. Conclusion.

Solving puzzles helps us develop logical thinking . Rebuses are an entertaining task, a game in which words, phrases or entire sentences are encrypted using pictures combined with letters, shapes and signs. Rebus develops attention and memory. By independently composing puzzles, logical thinking and creativity develop. Thus, our hypothesis that solving puzzles helps us develop logical thinking was confirmed.

When performing this work we:

We learned the history of the origin of puzzles and their types.

We studied the rules for composing and solving puzzles.

Conducted a study in 8 classes;

We created a reminder “How to learn to solve puzzles” and an album-folder “Mathematical puzzles through the eyes of eighth-graders.”

In the course of working on the project, we became acquainted with literature and other information sources on the chosen topic, in which we learned the definition of the concept of “rebus,” information about the history of the origin of rebuses, the types of rebuses, and learned the rules for solving and composing rebuses. While working on the project, we learned to find the necessary information in scientific literature, Internet resources, and work with programs: Microsoft Office Word; Microsoft Office Power Point, Excel. We collected information about puzzles and presented it in the form of a presentation. Based on the results of a survey of classmates, we were convinced of the need for the ability to solve puzzles. Puzzles help us develop memory, attention, logical thinking, develop mental activity, and concentrate attention. By training the mind, we become observant, quick-witted, insightful, quick-witted, inventive, resourceful, witty, and also acquire many other important and useful qualities. Puzzles are a means of increasing information culture. By independently composing puzzles, information search skills develop,

creativity, intellectual abilities. Students who can solve puzzles take an active part in olympiads, intellectual marathons, quizzes, city, regional, and All-Russian competitions “Kit”, “Kangaroo”, “Kangaroo Graduates” and others.

8. List of used literature:

Gorodkova T.V., Elkina N.V. “Children's crosswords”, M., 2014. - 353 p.

Dal V.I. Explanatory dictionary of the living Great Russian language: selected. Art. / V. I. Dal; combined ed. ed. V. I. Dahl and I. A. Baudouin de Courtenay; [scient. ed. L.V. Belovinsky]. - M.: OLMA Media Group, 2009. - 573 p.

Kordemsky B.A. Mathematical savvy. - M.: GIFML, 1958. - P. 189-194.

Livinsky V. Magazine “Don't Be Bored”, pp. 193 - 197.

The best mathematical games and puzzles, or a real mathematical circus / trans. from English M. I. Antipina. - M.: AST, Arel, 2009. - P. 123. - 255 p..

Mathematical charades and puzzles / N.V. Udaltsova - M.: Chistye Prudy, 2010 - 32 pp.: ill. - (Library “First of September”, series “Mathematics”, issue 35).

Mochalov L.P. Puzzles. — M.: Science. Main editorial office of physical and mathematical literature, 1980. - 128 pp.

Dictionary of the Russian language: In 4 volumes / RAS, Institute of Linguistics. research; Ed. A. P. Evgenieva. — 4th ed., erased. - M.: Rus. language; Polygraph resources, 1999. - 652 p.

Dictionary of Russian synonyms and expressions similar in meaning. - under. ed. N. Abramova, M.: Russian dictionaries, 1999. - 314 p.

Explanatory dictionary of the Russian language / S.I. Ozhegov, N.Yu. Shvetsova. - M., 2003.

The history of puzzles. The first puzzles appeared in France in the 15th century. In 1582, the first printed collection of them appeared. Its author was Etienne Taboureau (1548-1590). From France, the use of puzzles moved to England, Germany and Italy, but in none of these countries was it widely developed. In Russia they appeared in 1845 in the magazine "Illustration".

Mathematics 7th grade

“KVN-mathematics lesson” - Two ants. "Heap" and its seventh part. Watermelon pulp. Subject of mathematics. Artists' competition. Contest. Dedication. Fan competition. Ananias' task. Russian language. Warm up. Black box. Three maidens. Fans. Draw a proverb. Bon appetit. Metagrams.

“Mathematics and Space” - Solar surface area. Rocket. The first man in space. New algorithms. The weight of an object on Earth. Humanity's entry into space. Surface area of ​​the Sun. Mathematics and space. Distance from Jupiter to the Sun. Interesting facts. The clouds are running low. Mathematics has helped make many discoveries. First steps into space.

"7th Grade Math Quiz" - Angle equal to 90 degrees. Quiz goals. How many seconds are there in one minute? What is the result of multiplication called? Name the smallest three-digit number. A rectangle with all sides equal. Three horses ran 30 km. What is the result of addition called? Math quiz. Smallest even natural number. The first month of winter. How many kids did the goat with many children have? How many sides does a square have?

“Mathematics game in 7th grade” - Final. Tricky kiosk. A flock of geese was flying. City of great mathematicians. Your own game. Teams. There were 25 people on the bus. You are my son, but I am not your father. French mathematician. Name. Atetkmimaa. Proverbs. Anagram. Science. Name the mathematician. The right thing to do. Move away, don't touch my drawings. Task. Vitya graduated from seventh grade. One is not expected. There are 4 corners in the room. 3 apples.

“Mathematical “Own Game”” - Two identical objects. Meter. A playful game. Root sign. Book for classes. The wrapped queen. In mathematics for students in grades 6-8. "Runaway" numbers. Assignments. Game. A part of a line bounded by one point. Finished. White rooster. Draw a figure. Part of a number. Place the cubes in their places. A line segment connecting two points on a circle. Dwarf nose. The dog is barefoot. Numbers. The words were replaced with their opposites.

Do you like to solve riddles? Then guess what we are talking about.

A joke riddle in which a word or phrase is depicted in the form of pictures in combination with letters, numbers and other symbols. Did you guess it?

That's right, it's a rebus. In our understanding, a rebus is a kind of riddle where a word or even a phrase is presented in the form of pictures or symbols. It is believed that the word “rebus” itself was born from the Latin phrase “not with words, but with the help of things.”

We often encounter puzzles in our lives. Do you know the history of the appearance of puzzles?

The history of puzzles began a long time ago. In the 15th century in France, a rebus was a name given to farcical performances. Later, in the 16th century, such fun was prohibited and a pun based on a play on words began to be called a rebus. Often it was a riddle consisting of images of various objects, numbers or letters. And in this form the rebus has reached us.

In 1783, the English artist and engraver Thomas Bewick printed an unusual Bible for children in the London printing house of T. Hodgson. He retells the events of Holy Scripture in the form of puzzles. Such a Bible began to be called “hieroglyphic”. In the text, some words are replaced with pictures. A few years later, in 1788, the American publisher Isaiah Thomas publishes the hieroglyphic Bible overseas. Such unusual hieroglyphic Bibles became very popular at the end of the 18th century, as they made it easier and more interesting to teach the Holy Scriptures to children.

The well-known author of “Alice in Wonderland” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass,” Lewis Carroll, often used puzzles in his correspondence with young readers. In his letters, he often replaced some words with pictures or depicted letters in a mirror image. Reading such mysterious letters required ingenuity, which, of course, the children really liked.

In the second half of the 19th century, puzzles began to be widely used in society.

It is interesting that even during the war, puzzles were held in high esteem. During the Great Patriotic War, in 1942, the Moscow printing factory of the Moskvoretsky industrial trade produced a collection of puzzles by A.A. Ryazanov “In leisure hours: puzzles” (illustrations by I. Telyatnikov). They were intended for adults. In 1945, after the end of the war, a small brochure by artist-illustrator and illusionist Georgy Kelsievich Bedarev “Rebuses” was published.

In the post-war period, puzzles began to focus on children's audiences. Currently, puzzles are intended for both adults and children. It is difficult to find a children's magazine or educational manual that does not contain puzzles. Children are often given similar tasks at school and are even given the task of coming up with puzzles.

Regardless of who the puzzles are intended for, the rules for guessing them are the same. In order to correctly guess the rebus, of course, you need to know these rules.

Try to solve a few puzzles, huh.

Where did the first puzzles appear?

The origin of the concept of “rebus” is associated with fifteen-century France. It was in this century that this word was first used, but not quite in the meaning in which it is used in our time. In the fifteenth century, the word "rebus" meant humor, a playful entertainment show presented at a carnival. The main theme of such shows was topical problems that concern the entire population of the country. The jokes had to be sharp and precise.

Some time passed, and they began to call completely different things. The same French began to give the name “rebus” to all words that were encrypted using various pictures, letters, and other words.

This is precisely the meaning in which the word “rebus” is perceived today. The roots of this word go back centuries. Again, in France, the proverb of Latin origin “Non verbis sed rebus” was corrected, which is translated as the expression: not with words, but with things.” Of this entire set of words, only one was left to denote an encrypted expression - the word rebus.

From the beginning of the sixteenth century, the concept of “rebus” began to be widely used in other countries of the world. For example, in England, Italy, Germany, many authors began to compose puzzles, and people solved them with pleasure, teaching even the smallest ones. The expressions conveyed through pictures were indeed loved by many. Just not in all countries. Apart from European states, no one else has shown such a keen interest in solving such puzzles.

On the territory of Russia, the rapid spread of rebuses began only in the eighteenth century. There was even then a magazine called “Illustration”, in which drawings in the form of letters and syllables, as well as numbers, first appeared. Many began to purchase the magazine in order to brighten up the time on long evenings with the whole family. Neither adults nor children were indifferent to solving puzzles.

Since the early 90s of the nineteenth century, the magazine “Rebus” began to be published. It published a lot of useful material on the mental education and development of children from a very early age, and the problems of psychological education.
It gave many examples from foreign experience of how education occurs far away, abroad. A large number of pages in this magazine were devoted to printing puzzles. Readers were even awarded cash prizes for their correct guesses. It is not difficult to guess that the magazine was extremely popular.