I'm playing a game called "The Vulture: An Investigation in Paris Under Napoleonic Rule" by Nemopolis and am stuck on a rebus puzzle. It has a picture of a black spade (playing card) and a pushchair (baby carriage) on it. I have solved the second half, which is "pus", but can't figure out what goes under the picture of a spade. MaG thought I should post here for help.


Here is a picture of a spade at this link:


http://ts3.mm.bing.net/th?id=HN.608001824004769934&pid=15.1&w=110&h=114&p=0


Right next to it with no symbols is a picture of an old-fashioned pushchair (baby carriage) here:


http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-image-baby-coach-image18896416


After the baby carriage picture it has (-hchair)



Under the spade picture on the game is a blank box which I need the answer to. Under the baby carriage picture I have typed in the word "pus" in the box, which is correct because the computer made a sound to let me know the answer is correct.

I just need to know what the spade picture is. I've tried "spade", "ace", "shovel", "black spade" and none are correct.

I would appreciate any help or suggestions.

Thanks,
Call1e

Is that the exact picture of the spade in your game? Is it possible that what you are seeing is a cam (machinery part) rather than a spade? That could give the answer of campus.

Here's a diagram with some cam types:

http://cnx.org/content/m23858/latest/Picture%202.png

Have you tried just the word "black"

Well, IF the spade and pushchair represent ONE rebus,
then you need a word for spade that makes some sense
when combined with pushchair: perhaps high pushchair?
"high" can be associated with spade, spade being the
"high suit" in card games...

If I understand correctly, it is a single word answer and the second half is "pus" because the clue was something like *picture of pushchair* - hchair.

That's what led me to think of campus...other possibilities: octopus, platypus, cattywompus

I didn't see it that way...took it as "pus" being associated
only with the stroller...OH Callie: get us out of our misery

Just a suggstion - there is a street in Paris called Rue de Picpus. Since you have correctly solved the "pus" part and since the game is about an investigation in Paris, I wondered if that might be relevant. Don't see what pic would have to do with spade, though. Good luck with the game.

Looks promising Sondi, piques is French for spades; sounds exactly like "pic".

Ohhh - Merci, Canuk Denis. Now I've learned a new French word.

Thanks for the input from everybody. I was gone for a couple of days and only just saw the posts tonight. I have solved the puzzle, thanks to a walkthrough of the game that I found on a Russian webpage, which I then translated into English using an online webpage translator site. The symbol for the spade was "pike". I thought you had to use your imagination a little to get a pike out of a picture of a spade. Sondi and CanukDenis were correct about the answer being "Picpus". That's the part of the game I'm in now, and hope to finish playing it this weekend. I really appreciate everybody's help!