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metapuzzle

noun

Etymology

From meta- + puzzle.

  1. inherited from puslian — “to pick out the best bits, carefully select, cull”
  2. prefixed as metapuzzle — “meta + puzzle”

Definitions

  1. A compound puzzle formed by several lesser puzzles. In contrast to a regular puzzle, a…

    A compound puzzle formed by several lesser puzzles. In contrast to a regular puzzle, a metapuzzle is missing data that is essential to solving it, and which can only be obtained by solving other sometimes entirely unrelated puzzles. Metapuzzles are frequently used in puzzlehunts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for metapuzzle. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA