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