ParshaPix

A classic, but a good one.
Lot's to work on with your children and guests
Upper-right is a Davka graphic of Moshe on the Nile (in the basket and Miriam standing guard.
Lower-left is another Davka graphic of the scene at the Bush.
Pyramids are not only a reminder of Egypt, but they represent some of the building done by the slaves in Egypt.
Ball and chain is also a sign of slavery with no way to escape.
Brickwork and work in the field are mentioned in the description of the oppressive labor forced upon the children of Israel.
The lettuce is MAROR, from the phrase, "And they made their lives bitter..."
The Staff is the Staff. 
Lower right is the Land flowing with milk and honey - the place to where we were to go upon being taken out of Egypt.
That leaves us with a pun-pix, the two letters OT, as in if they will not believe the first OT (sign) then they will listen to the last one. ALEF X, TAV with a checkmark, known in Hebrew as a VEE.

TTriddles
Here are last week's (VA'Y'CHI) TTriddles...
[1] 5328171 5822146 6415411 6452880 6724617 5806335
[2] Rabbi Avraham bar Shmuel Abul'afya
[3] Joel Quenneville's guys in ancient Israel
[4] 219 b. -168
[5] What's the pastry chef's name?
[6] Brian, Carl, Dennis, Mike, Alan, and...?
[7] His rhyming sons could have been Lupus & Rufus rather than... who?
[8] Kedem-Tide or Carmel-Wisk

The envelope (which until this moment, the answers were in a jar of shmaltz on the porch of Even Shoshan dictionary) please...
[1] These are six phone numbers for people in Yerushalayim named Ben Porat, Yosef - as in 49:22. I hope that they weren't bothered by too many phone calls from potential TTriddle solvers.
[2] R. Abul'afya wrote a sefer called IMREI SHEFER, a phrase that comes from Naftali's bracha. This was my intention. A few solvers answered that he wrote a sefer about Olam HaBa, in which case it corresponds to Yaakov's intent to reveal the end of days to his sons. Nice answer.
[3] Joel Q is the coach of the National Hockey League's St. Louis Blues. Bring them to ancient Israel and you get B'LUZ B'ERETZ K'NA'AN (48:3).
[4] This is a G'matriya simultaneous equation, sort of. In the sedra we have Yosef ben Yaakov, which is 156 b. 182. In the Haftara it is Shlomo ben David or 375 b. 14. Subtracting the former from the latter, we get 219 b. -168. QED (MASHA"L, which is the Hebrew equivalent of QED, Ma Shehaya L'hochi'ach.)
[5] The pastry chef is ASHER, as in 49:20, Mei-Asher Sh'meina Lachmo, v'hu Yitein Maadanei Melech - From Asher shall come the richest foods; he shall provide the king's delights.
[6] Among the Rock 'n Roll groups of the 60s, the Beach Boys were second only to the Beatles in impacting on the top 40. Largely a family affair (which makes it even more connected to the sons of Yaakov), brothers Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson were joined by a cousin Mike Love and a friend Alan Jardine. There's more to their history, but you can surf the web as I did, if you are interested. Meaning absolutely no disrespect to Zevulun, Beach Boy is what popped into my head when reading 49:12, Zevulun L'Chof Yamim Yishkon... Z. will dwell on the beach (or shoreline, coast).
[7] Binyamin's ten sons are listed in Parshat Vayigash. Numbers 8 and 9 are MUPIM and CHUPIM, who I always have fantasized must have been twins. And if not, then they still would qualify as rhyming sons of Binyamin. In Va'y'chi, Binyamin is described as a ZE'EV YITROF, a vicious wolf. According to the encylopedia, courtesy of ATOMICA, there are two well known species of wolf, Canis Lupus, the gray or timber wolf, and Canis Rufus, the red wolf. (Let's leave the prairie wolf, a.k.a. coyote, out of this picture.) Combining Binyamin's using sound alike names for his sons with his description of ZE'EV, his rhyming sons could have been LUPUS and RUFUS.
[8] This represents the merger of a wine company with a company that makes laundry detergent (try out your own combinations, it's fun) that will make the special wine used to launder clothes, as in the bracha for Yehuda, 49:11, "...he even washes his clothes in wine, his cloak in the blood of grapes." A reference to a blessing of bounty vineyard-wise.
Successful solution set submitters include RHM who not only solved four of the real TTriddles (actually, she thought that Joe Q is a musician who plays the St. Louis blues), but she even solved the Refu'a Sh'leima to Dr. MS. Yaakov was sick (Refu'a Sh'leima) and asked that Yosef do for him Chesed and MS. And RO'F'IM are mentioned in the sedra as well. DM had a nice partial set too, sa did his overseas brother MM/Bklyn, who guessed that the phone numbers belonged to doctors. Nice try. ZviR had a couple of solutions too. For those who try — much appreciated. The rest of you — take the TTriddle challenge. Happy TTriddling.
And here is this week's septet of TTriddles, collected from all over the hard copy and placed neatly in one place for the comfort of the electronic TT reader.

Triddles
1. If a man has two wives, he can have two fathers-in-law. Who had an extra father-in-law with only one wife?
2. Yehuda, Naftali, Asher, Yosef, & Binyamin
3. Topaz, Battle Cry, The Angry Hills... and
4. How would you draw a quadrangle with Logo?
5. Rashi describes the proliferation of the Jews in Egypt as SHISHA B'KERES ECHAD. Who is the homonymic counterpart of that phrase?
6. __-letter word for lethal weapon
7. As the Nation did vis-a-vis HaShem, who did vis-a-vis David?

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