Let's start in the middle, with the sack of silver coins, 400 to be exact. This was the payment from Avraham to EFRON (represented by the pencil, similar word, in Hebrew). The G'matriya of EFRON is 70+80+200 6+50 = 406. This includes the VAV, which appears in every occurrence of the name EFRON, except one. When the Torah tells us that Avraham gives Efron the money, the name is spelled without the VAV — its g'matriya is then exactly the amount he received - 400.

After taking care of the burial of Sara, Avraham then sets his mind to the task of finding a suitable wife for Yitzchak. He sends Eliezer, laden with 10 camels (you can find the 10 GIMMELIM scattered around the ParshaPix) to his (Avraham's) home town. Upper-left is Rivka at the well. Below Rivka is a gold ring that Eliezer gave her.

Later, at Rivka's home, Eliezer is offered food, but refuses (hence, the Xed out place setting). This spares him of the poison that Lavan tried to kill him with. B'tu'el, say our sources, was the unintentional victim of the poison.
The Chupa represents the marriage of Yitzchak and Rivka (and also the remarriage of Avraham and Hagar, called Ketura in our sedra).
The gift-wrapped present is for the gifts that Avraham gave his children from Ketura. One of those children is represented by a grammatic homophone. See if your children or Shabbat guests can identify the graphic element that stands for one of Ketura's children. (It's the SHVA, but don't give the answer away so easily.)

At the bottom are the headstones of the graves of Avraham and Sara, with the years they lived.
This leaves us two letters unaccounted. The AYIN is the well or stream where Eliezer found Rivka. Or vice versa.
And the HEI is the letter that seems to have fallen off the word NA'ARAH on several occurrences in this sedra and elsewhere.

TTriddles
These were last week's (VAYEIRA) TTriddles:
[1] A possible member of the Instant Group
[2] "Specialty of the Tent"
[3] It lingers, says, refuses, and slaughters
[4] His name is sort of his cousin's problem
[5] He's entitled to say the same thing as Martin Luther King Jr.
[6] Would that be similar to living in Lvov?
[7] 10%, 11.1%, 25%, 33.3%, 50%

The envelopes, please...
[1] The only one of the seven TTriddles of Vayeira not solved by anyone. Pirkei Avot states that there were 10 items created Bein HaSh'mashot, in the instant (hence, the Instant Group) between the Six Days of Creation and the first Shabbat, the original Shabbat B'reishit. After the list of the 10 items, the Mishna adds other items that SOME SAY were also created in that moment, other possible members of the Instant Group. Among these additional items is the "Ram of Avraham Avinu", the one he "found" with its "horns caught in the thicket", the one he offered as a Korban on the Mizbei'ach in lieu of Yitzchak.
[2] This is a take-off on the expression, "Specialty of the House", referring to the favorite dish of a restaurant. Rashi tells us that Avraham prepared the most sumptuous dish for the three "visitors" - Beef tongue with mustard.
[3] Four words in the Torah carry the TRUP (symbols of cantillation) known as the SHALSHELET. The TTriddle listed the four verbs that are read with this unusually, elaborate, drawn out note. The first one is in Vayeira, and Lot lingered... when he should have been rushing to flee S'dom at the instructions of the angels. The second one is in this week's sedra, when Eliezer is at the well and invokes G-d's aid in finding a suitable shiduch for Yitzchak Avinu. 
[4] This referred to the second of NACHOR's eight sons, BOOZE. This was sort of LOT's problem (his daughters got him drunk on wine...) LOT was the son of HARAN, brother of NACHOR and AVRAHAM, making him a first cousin of B'tu'el and his brothers, as well as Yitzchak.
[5] Avimelech was entitled to say, "I had a dream!"
[6] "And Avraham traveled from there to the Negev, and he settled between KADEISH and SHUR, VAYAGAR B'G'RAR, and he lived in G'rar. GIMMEL-REISH of and he dwelled in, and the GIMMEL-REISH-REISH of the place produced the TTriddle about LiVing in LVoV.
[7] Avraham asked G-d to spare S'dom and the other cities if 50 righteous people would be found there. After G-d agreed, Avraham dropped the number by 10% to 45. Then 11.1% to 40, 25% to 30, 33.3% to 20, and finally, 50% to 10.

This week's TTriddles...
[1] His great-great-great grandmother and great-great-great granddaughter had the same name.
[2] She had a masculine G'matriya
[3] His firstborn's name was influenced by an early experience
[4] The camels like the daughter of the author of The Angel 0f the Odd, Eleonora, The Golden Bug, and King Pest

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