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puzzlemaster

noun

Etymology

From puzzle + master.

  1. derived from maistre
  2. derived from *méǵh₂s✻
  3. derived from magester
  4. derived from magister — “chief, teacher, leader”
  5. inherited from mǣster
  6. inherited from maister
  7. compounded as puzzlemaster — “puzzle + master”

Definitions

  1. Someone who designs or creates puzzles.

    • A few puzzles come from Sam Loyd, the famous nineteenth-century American puzzlemaster.
    • In this book, we offer you the challenge of breaking several types of real ciphers and cryptograms, all devised by noted Australian puzzlemaster Denise Sutherland (author of Word Searches For Dummies [Wiley]).
    • To get us to try a little harder, at dinner we played a little game that I called "Can You Say?" As Bossy Mama, I acted as puzzlemaster, and did my best to challenge the kids without ever stumping them.

  2. Someone exceptionally skilled at solving puzzles.

    • After eight months the musical 3-year-olds were expert puzzlemasters, scoring 80 percent higher than their playmates did in spatial intelligence -- the ability to visualize the world accurately.
    • In any case, even the puzzlemaster could find no clues in the weird notations.
    • What kind of challenge? I had no idea. I sighed and looked around the warehouse. I felt like a puzzlemaster surrounded by pieces, none of them fitting together as if they were from different puzzles.

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