Sunday, December 23, 2018

pattern - The Case of the Missing Rebus


A rebus has gone missing.   What rebus, and under which   _?  ?


ADAD here? ADADLLLLLLxyztXCXCXCXC perhaps?  maybe? TTTTTT or? Sn 2e/6Sne/2e/6TTZZZZZZZZZZ


Naturally, the answer may be rebused more than one way.


Nothing is under three of the   _?  s.   Hint from a comment:



The clues  TT and SnSn lead to stereotypical New Zealand pronunciations.




Answer



The missing rebus is:




TTT T TTT or anything else that gives seventies



And it needs to be positioned under the box labelled:



maybe?





Reasoning:




Reading from left to right, ignoring vertical position, we have:

XCXC XCXC - XC is Roman numeral for 90, and there's multiple, so we've got nineties
ADAD ADAD - a plurality of ADs or eighties
...the missing one needs to go in here...
TTT TTT - six Ts, or sixties
LLL LLL - similarly with Roman numeral 50s gives fifties
xy z t - the four dimensions, or 4Ds, giving forties
2e/6 e/2−e/6 - both equations resolve to a third of e, but there's two, so we get third es or thirties
TT - twin Ts, or (again with an NZ accent) twenties
Sn Sn - Sn is the chemical symbol for Tin, and we've got more than one, giving us Tins, or (putting on our NZ accent) tens
ZZZZZ ZZZZZ - we've got two rows of Zs, or Z rows, giving zeroes




However, the above solution leaves two possible positions that the missing rebus could appear in:



maybe? or here?

But, if we consider the derebussed words in order of height in the graph, we get:

here?
eighties
fifties
forties
nineties
maybe?
sixties

tens
thirties
twenties
zeroes

It should be painfully obvious, even to the most dimwitted of individuals*, that the words are in alphabetical order... Thus seventies, must be hidden under maybe? to complete the pattern.



* I stared at the list for quite some time before realising


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