I was taken aback by the lady who's got back!

These are awesome, Jay.  #4 was humorous.

I got every one! Bravo!!!!

Nice work -- these were fun. I got most of them. The ooze threw me off, though!

A target is also a mod? I was not aware of that. Where does that come from?

Other than that, I loved it!

Didn't know the last one, but in my defense, never heard of that game...

These are great, lets see some more soon, back by popular demand of at least *5* people (hopefully more of course) :)

Much better than the impossible one you did before. This one was fun and balanced. Good job.

They were all good but the last one.   Even your explaination of the last one was so far of a stretch, I would have never guessed it.  And that is getting all of the pictures right.   I'm not sure exactly  how you pronounce that last one, but it certainly is not how anyone I have ever heard speak those words.   Your dialect is off or something.  

Maybe if you would have had a picture of a professional ball player instead of the Excell picture, more people would have figured it out.  Also, on all the other pictures when you had separate words, you didn't have a "+" sign between the pictures to indicate a break in words.  The last one had plusses all the way through it, indicating that it was only a one word game.

It was fun anyway though!

Alejandro - The red and blue target was originally the symbol of the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force. It was made popular by the band The Who, and adopted by the Mod (modernist) subculture that originated in London in the late 1950's. If you do a Google search for "mod symbol," you'll see it come right up.

Brian - The "+" signs continued through the last puzzle because you must sound out all of the clues in one string to get the solution. The "P" in "up" forms the start of the second word. Sometimes, in rebus puzzles, the clues bleed over into the next word, that's why it's important to actually sound out the clues to solve it. This is really just the nature of the way these puzzles are designed. In the previous ones, I was able to split the clues into distinct words, so it was possible to solve each part separately.

Jay,

I think that is where my problem rests.  Now that you mention the logic behind it, I can see it.  However, you kind of set up a pattern in the other 7, which makes the last one way more confusing than it needed to be.   You may have intended it to be a "challenge" puzzle, but it just turned the whole thing from a light, fun, read into a frustrating mess.. even to an experienced gamer.. alfuprowtowcall doesn't sound like any game I've heard of when sounded out in one complete one word answer like all the other ones.  Especially since the last sound in alpha isn't the same "sound" as the "u" sound in up.

The big problem I have is that you may be able to bleed sounds from pictures into different words, but the "p" sound in up, isn't even a separate syllable. Isn't it the point of the reebus puzzles to begin with.. taking pictures with words.. and combining them into new words using the pictures as syllables?

The last one doesn't exactly fit in with the rest.  Not only is the "call" picture really vague (I thought it was "cell" or "phone" at first), but you break from the patterns established in the first 7 of the "set".  It is a classic way puzzle writers "warm" their readers up is introducting concepts in each set.. first making easy ones.. then using the same concepts used in the previous one.. install a greater challenge.    Even in your solution page, you didn't point out that the "P" in "up" was to blend in w/ the rotocol. 

My suggestion, if you wanted to introduce the concept of "bleeding".. use a different example having a two syllable "word" to be split up and used in two different words.   That would have conditioned your reader to properly be able to make the leap.

Remember, quite possibly this could be many of your readers' first time doing these puzzles.  A link to your "Round 1" would have been very nice also.

I got the first one. And almost the last one, but you lost me with the "fare" part.