Puzzler magazine is celebrating its 50th birthday with a series of interactive brain-teasers online and outside their home on London’s Fleet Street.
The magazine, a sister title of The Sunday Post, has created 50 ‘rebus’ puzzles, sometimes known as pictograms or Dingbats, which feature words and pictures as visual clues to names of TV shows.
They’re the type of puzzle that inspired the name of Ian Rankin’s maverick sleuth after he saw one in Merry Mac’s famous fun pages in The Sunday Post.
Puzzler’s head of innovation, Shameem Begg, said: “We all remember, with great fondness, TV shows from our youth so we’ve created a set of 50 visual clues to represent 50 of the UK’s most well-known TV shows from the last 50 years.
“Rebus puzzles make you smile when you solve them, the TV show Catchphrase is a great example – it started back in 1986 and people continue to watch it today because it’s so much fun to play along.
“We wanted a live experience to spread some joy to the millions of people who play puzzles every day. We knew it had to be something fun that spanned generations – just like Puzzler!”
The 50th anniversary edition of Puzzler magazine goes on sale this week, guest edited by celebrity fan Miranda Hart, who also turns 50 this year.
She said: “I’m genuinely thrilled to have been asked to be guest editor for Puzzler, for it has been a good friend to me during both good times and bad times of my half-century in this world.”
The Puzzler Screen Test is viewable until the end of November outside the DC Thomson building, 185 Fleet Street, London. 50 clues are on display plus one red herring. The clues are also viewable online at www.puzzler.com/promo-offer/screentest with a prize of a 50” TV up for grabs.
The answer to the puzzle is HOMES UNDER THE HAMMER
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