Picture Puzzle Pursuit: Decode The Dingbats – Win £10
Picture Puzzle Pursuit is a daily quiz game that challenges your wits with cryptic images. Each day, a new puzzling image is presented, designed to represent a popular phrase or saying. Your mission is to decipher the hidden meaning and type your answer into the provided text box below the image.
These visual brain teasers, known as dingbats, will test your knowledge of idioms and expressions as you strive to unveil the cleverly concealed message within the artwork. Whether it’s a combination of symbols, shapes, or clever arrangements, each image is a puzzle waiting to be solved.
If you manage to find the answer we’re looking for, you’ll receive 2 entries into the draw. Even if you don’t crack the code, your effort won’t go unrewarded – a single entry awaits you for giving it a try. At the end of the month, all entries will be pooled, and one lucky winner will be drawn at random, adding an extra layer of excitement to this engaging daily quiz experience.
The competition started on 1st May 2025 and runs until the end of the month. The final question will be posted on 31st May 2025, with the winner announced here on 1st June 2025. The winner will then have 24 hours to claim their £10 cash prize. If the prize is not claimed by 11am on 2nd June 2025, it will be forfeited, and no late claims will be accepted.
Previous Answers
1. Head over heels
2. Draw the short straw
3. Elephant in the room
4. Shrinking Violet
5. Wide awake
6. The Devil’s in the details
7. Wolf in sheeps clothing
8. Black Friday sale
9. Goldilocks and the three bears
10. Ready made
11. Sunny side up
12. High five
13. Small print
14. All roads lead to Rome
15. Forgive and forget
Oh well… I put you “get what you give”
I nearly put that but just googled to check
I put that as well
I am a bit stumped with today’s as the pic is in 2 halves, which makes me think it is not just a straightforward answer.
i’m really struggling with this one
Me too. Nothing obvious springs to mind
I thought today’s puzzle was a clever one. Imagine having a job just thinking and creating puzzles like this.
There have been some really clever ones, the only one I didn’t like was ‘To Draw the Short Straw’, the Straw in the picture had not been made short, it had been made small. I got it right because there was nothing with straw and small that made sense, but that one tripped up a few people.
It did with me. At least I get a point for trying lol.
As English is not my first language I didn’t make the connection because I never use this phrase and instead use ‘the short end of the stick’ which is translated from my own language. I had no clue about this one and so I wrote: I don’t have a clue. 1 point. That reminds me of secondary school where the teacher would randomly mention a pupil’s name and ask a question. One day she picked me. I stood up not knowing the answer and just said: I don’t know, I didn’t study. She gave me 1 point for being honest.… Read more »
I missed a day again.
Loving this month’s game reminds me of the sihow catchphrase ‘say what you see!’ Doesn’t always apply but in most cases it does! Sometimes we just over think things. 😊🤔💭
Totally agree Susan, it’s good that they have had the little extra clue in the picture, which helps with context.
READY MADE REALLY??
RED E MADE !!
Yes, its a red coloured letter E with a picture of a microwave oven and the word made – so its red e made, i thought that was a good one, along with todays, had to think for a while on that one 😁
I put ready made meals because there was a microwave in the picture
that one nearly got me
Why is sale on the answer? The phrase is just Black Friday!
That’s a sneakily clever one today!
I’m failing to see how this represent “a popular phrase or saying”
True, it’s neither one of those. The Black Friday one wasn’t exactly one either.
New one (7th) not showing yet 🤔
Showing now! 👍
Loving this one!
So am I. Seeing things logically.
i’m naff at this game lol
Oh bother; I missed yesterday’s puzzle! How did I manage that?
Up to that point, it was going quite well…
Would you have got it?
It took me a couple of hours to come up with the answer 😁
Sorry Stuart, missed your reply, but yes, I would have known that one.
Funny how sometimes you can’t see it at first, then it just jumps out at you!
I am enjoying this month’s challenges. Hope the rest of you are, too.
loving these
me too
Finding this game hard just guessing the answers 🤔
No idea today.
Completely at a loss 😒
same here, i put haven’t the foggiest as my answer 🙂
The colour and the word are being measured but as it’s going into the distance it looks like it is getting smaller, look for another word that means the same, there was also a film with this word in it. The incredible S…….. woman! Hope this helps.
Really? You will kick yourself when you see the answer.
GOT IT i think 😜😃
Drawing the short straw.. In Dutch the equivalent is (translated) to pull the short end.
I answered wrong and put the last straw. I dismissed the pencil and thought it was just pointing at the straw.
Do you not have a word for ‘drawing’ or ‘straw’?
This is really difficult for people whose first language is not English i.e. myself 🙁 My English is fluent in speaking and writing but I’ve never learned certain expressions and idioms and things like that. I guess I won’t be taking part this month.
Put in anything – you’ll still get one point for that,
yes. I forgot about that.
My only language is English, and I am struggling with this month’s game. I got yesterday’s wrong, but got a point as I answered. So you will still get points for putting something in.
Same here, i put the last straw Doh!!
I put the same as well
So for today, what do you seem in the room that looks out of place. It’s an ………… In the room
I’m finding this Month easy so far. I struggled last month as don’t really follow celebrities. Good luck everybody.
I had to ask my husband a lot of last months he’s good at faces lol
Mine not so much lol there were only a few he knew.
No idea. I’m lost….
Me too.
I’ve taken a punt having thought about it for an hour
I think i put something like that 🤣😂
“Drawing the short straw”
The only one I can think of doesn’t really make sense, but like Stuart I am going to take a punt.
It’s not meant to be this confusing on day 2 🤪
Yep, I put “to draw the short straw”, but that was not a short straw, it was a small straw, which is why I thought it made no sense.
I was at a lost for this one so googled for the answer. The only it came up with was one I had never heard of, so put it in the answer anyway.
I was confused by today’s until my husband gave me the answer. You have to think about where the arrow is pointing.