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puzzler

noun

Etymology

From puzzle + -er.

  1. inherited from puslian — “to pick out the best bits, carefully select, cull”
  2. suffixed as puzzler — “puzzle + er”

Definitions

  1. A puzzling situation or problem.

    • And reason cannot answer that question, because it exists outside of reason. It’s a puzzler, right? A real head-scratcher? Which brings us back to me.

  2. A puzzling person.

  3. A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A person who solves puzzles as a hobby.

      • […] he commits what to a hardened puzzler seems an unforgivable sin when he uses a picture of a two-masted ship followed by HTER for the word BRIGHTER.
      • Mentally stimulating leisure activities, such as doing crossword puzzles, seem to help keep the brain sharp. […] The puzzlers delayed the onset of accelerated memory loss (a sign of dementia) by an average of 2.54 years.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for puzzler. 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