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A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution
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puzzler
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, agent noun from puzzle (v.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that's a real puzzler" [syn: puzzle , mystifier , teaser ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A puzzle#Verb situation or problem; an enigma. 2 (context video games English) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve. 3 One who solves puzzles as a hobby.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Puzzler \Puz"zler\, n. One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes. Hebrew, the general puzzler of old heads. --Brome.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A bit of a puzzler , for humans. ▪ It is an arcade puzzler game that tests your ability to think fast and move quickly.
Usage examples of puzzler.
By the time he casually, rather distractedly slaughtered the third, this question had acquired real significance: it was a puzzler, and he suspected that its answer was somehow vital in a way he could not, yet, understand.
The older puzzler, who shook with emotion but did not cry, stood watching his younger self.
Playmate 287 Puzzlers for Wise Heads 30, 58, 98, 130, 167, 195, 230, 263, 290, 339, 371, 395 Rat-skins 270 Ready!
But from the first day she adored school, with its fascinating science equipment and electronic drawers full of math puzzlers and other children to find countries on the map with.
Certainly no disturbances, least of all by his berserks (that had been last week, he reminded himself -- if it had really ever happened), and he had found pleasure in watching the slow-moving servers and listening to the yarning fishers and sailors, two low-voiced whores (a wonder in itself), and a sprinkling of eccentrics and puzzlers, such as a fat man sunk in mute misery, a skinny graybeard who peppered his ale, and a very slender silent woman in bone-gray touched with silver who sat alone at a back table and had the most tranquil (and not unhandsome) face imaginable.
Certainly no disturbances, least of all by his berserks (that had been last week, he reminded himself—if it had really ever happened), and he had found pleasure in watching the slow-moving servers and listening to the yarning fishers and sailors, two low-voiced whores (a wonder in itself), and a sprinkling of eccentrics and puzzlers, such as a fat man sunk in mute misery, a skinny graybeard who peppered his ale, and a very slender silent woman in bone-gray touched with silver who sat alone at a back table and had the most tranquil (and not unhandsome) face imaginable.
I'm pretty good on the eyeball now, but then he'll ask about the parasitic wasp and that's a puzzler, and then he'll ask how exactly is evolution passed on and there's a god-space right there.
The American Cryptogram Association was founded in 1932 by members of the National Puzzlers League who wanted to concentrate more on cryp-tology, taking as their motto "The cryptogram is the aristocrat of puzzles.
This exchange occurred while the general celebration was continuing, with many of the dedicated puzzlers examining the fit, doing and undoing the pieces.
The statement sounded like what it was: the hundred-and-first rehearsal of the first condition of a puzzle or a riddle, which in a hundred trials still had not been solved-and to which, for all the puzzlers knew, no final answer existed.