A Rebus is a word or sentence where a symbol replaces part of the word or sentence. For example: if you laid a tile with a picture of a letter "S" followed by a tile with a picture of an "oar" (from a rowboat) the the Rebus would read: "sore". Comes with a description of each tile (in case you didn't know just what the picture is) as well as an example of use for each tile.