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| n. (communication) | 1. mystifier, puzzle, puzzler, teaser | a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution.; "he loved to solve chessmate puzzles"; "that's a real puzzler" |
| ~ problem | a question raised for consideration or solution.; "our homework consisted of ten problems to solve" |
| ~ sudoku | a number puzzle in which the numbers 1 through 9 must be placed into a grid of cells so that each row or column contains only one of each number. |
| ~ acrostic, word square | a puzzle where you fill a square grid with words reading the same down as across. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. puzzle | a game that tests your ingenuity. |
| ~ chinese puzzle | intricate or ingenious puzzle consisting of boxes within boxes. |
| ~ game | the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game.; "the child received several games for his birthday" |
| ~ jigsaw puzzle | a puzzle that requires you to reassemble a picture that has been mounted on a stiff base and cut into interlocking pieces. |
| ~ tangram | a Chinese puzzle consisting of a square divided into seven pieces that must be arranged to match particular designs. |
| ~ crossword, crossword puzzle | a puzzle in which words corresponding to numbered clues are to be found and written in to squares in the puzzle. |
| v. (cognition) | 3. amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex | be a mystery or bewildering to.; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" |
| ~ stump, mix up | cause to be perplexed or confounded.; "This problem stumped her" |
| ~ befuddle, confound, bedevil, confuse, discombobulate, fox, fuddle, throw | be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly.; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" |
| ~ riddle | set a difficult problem or riddle.; "riddle me a riddle" |
| ~ elude, escape | be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by.; "What you are seeing in him eludes me" |
| v. (emotion) | 4. puzzle | be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide.; "We puzzled over her sudden departure" |
| ~ chew over, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, think over, excogitate, reflect, ruminate, speculate, contemplate | reflect deeply on a subject.; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" |
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