Definition of Puzzler

1. Noun. A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution. "That's a real puzzler"

Exact synonyms: Mystifier, Puzzle, Teaser
Generic synonyms: Problem
Specialized synonyms: Sudoku, Acrostic, Word Square
Derivative terms: Mystify, Puzzle, Puzzle, Puzzle

Definition of Puzzler

1. n. One who, or that which, puzzles or perplexes.

Definition of Puzzler

1. Noun. A puzzling situation or problem; an enigma. ¹

2. Noun. (video games) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Puzzler

1. something that puzzles [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Puzzler

puzzels
puzzle
puzzle out
puzzle over
puzzled
puzzled out
puzzledly
puzzledom
puzzleheaded
puzzleheadedness
puzzlehunt
puzzlehunts
puzzlelike
puzzlement
puzzlements
puzzler (current term)
puzzlers
puzzles
puzzles out
puzzlewit
puzzlewits
puzzling
puzzling out
puzzlingly
puzzlings
puzzlist
puzzly
pwn
pwn3d
pwnage

Literary usage of Puzzler

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1835)
"The Fashionable puzzler,'—a prettily-bound volume of some three hundred and twenty pages,—has been laid before us. It consists of a collection of enigmas, ..."

2. Bulletin of Pharmacy (1917)
"120 Wot 32nd Street New York 0 "I shall never give up puzzler for I ... puzzler is pulling business past my competitors' stores into mine—just as you ..."

3. The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales by William Makepeace Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert Abbott À Beckett, Horace Mayhew (1853)
"... and continuing their what'a-his-name's tattoo every ten minutes, ia a puzzler. How anybody can. sleep with these gentlemen—is another question ! ..."

4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling, Charles Wolcott Balestier (1909)
"THE puzzler THE Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, His mental processes are plain—one knows what he will do, And can logically predicate his ..."

5. The Hastings Road and the "happy Springs of Tunbridge," by Charles George Harper (1906)
"in the road is furnished with a sign-post directing both ways to Hastings. This puzzler for strangers is explained by the right-hand and shorter route being ..."

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