What is "brainteaser"

Usage examples of "brainteaser".

I was up for a job as a software engineer, but at the interview there was a brainteaser that I flunked.

Like the old brainteaser about a tree falling in the woods with no one to hear it, Scot wondered, would his fall make any sound, or any difference?

His most famous square was a kingsize brainteaser that did not sum correctly at the diagonals, unless the diagonals were bent like boomerangs.

A good brainteaser was just what she needed to rid herself of these female weaknesses, and the Bow Street Runner might well have some new information.

Two badges of that club are the brainteaser interviews and the stock options.

Peter pacing, working the latest MENSA-level brainteaser in his hands as he considered the issues of contention and fired thoughts from different sections of the room.

If I could just solve a few brainteasers at an interview, and seem reasonably articulate and friendly in the process, the job was mine.

It continued like that for two weeks, waking at dawn for calisthenics and brainteasers, telling Katie my half-baked ideas about Colonna so that she would have to slow down to listen, then forcing myself to run faster so that she would have less time to tell me how I was wrong.

Rocking and swiveling, the justices would perform a rite of aerobic listening to the advocates or one another, as the more theatrical among them, particularly Justice Fini, launched brainteasers and witty remarks at the embattled advocates.

Puzzles, limericks, jokes and brainteasers took the place of television and video games.

There is little point in posing brainteasers to a wedding planner, surgeon, taxi driver, or counterperson at Starbucks.