Word Finder - puzzle

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Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.

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Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.

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A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.

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A crossword puzzle.

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A jigsaw puzzle.

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A riddle.

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Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.

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The state of being puzzled; perplexity.

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to be in a puzzle

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To perplex (someone).

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To think long and carefully, in bewilderment.

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We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.

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To make intricate; to entangle.

The pieces of the puzzle simply didn't fit together.

He was a metaphysical puzzle to me.

Each still held the final pieces to the puzzle they left behind.

I think she knows enough to help me put the final pieces of the puzzle together.

It was the last piece of the puzzle.

Araucaria imbricata, the Chile pine, or "monkey puzzle," was introduced into Britain in 1796.

Well, I have here a puzzle which I think will test your wisdom.

This widely-scattered race has no political union and its distribution is a puzzle for ethnography.

Altogether colchicum is a puzzle, and will remain so until the efficient poison of gout is isolated and defined.

The thick Quaternary, or Post-Pliocene, deposits which cover nearly all Russia were for a long time a puzzle to geologists.

The two detectives entered the office, and the clerk, a bored and balding retiree, looked up from a crossword puzzle and, recogniz­ing Hunter, frowned.

He had died by the time I read that passage in one of his books, so I couldn't write him, as is my normal practice when an author's words puzzle me.

Ampere, Wollaston and others, the realization of the continuous rotation of the wire and the magnet round each other was a scientific puzzle requiring no mean ingenuity for its original solution.

Zeno's paradoxes, notably, for example, the puzzle of Achilles and the Tortoise, are still capable of amusing the modern world.

We need all the help we can get with this here puzzle.

Fred suggested that one of the letters might be in error so the group continued to look at the puzzle on the basis Cynthia had first suggested.

Some of his writings, from their metaphysical subtilty, will always puzzle the learned; but he could write to the level of the common heart without loss of dignity or pointedness.

Those plates are perhaps constant throughout sea-urchins and starfish (though it would puzzle any one to detect them in certain Silurian echinoids), and they may be traced in some of the fixed echinoderms; but there is no proof that they represent the radials of a simple crinoid, and there are certainly many cystids in which no such plates existed.

You have all the keys to this puzzle, Jule replied.

She turned to Katie, who was working a puzzle on a table in the kitchen.

During the next two days the emperor examined his situation and dictated a series of notes which have been a puzzle to every strategical thinker ever since.

Yet he is left committed to his puzzle as to a reduction of judgment to identity, which partially vitiates his treatment of the theory of judgment.

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together.

The importance of these results is evident in explaining an old puzzle in agriculture, viz.

Just here, perhaps, I had better explain our use of the manual alphabet, which seems to puzzle people who do not know us.

The answers fell into place, one after another like a child's wooden puzzle, and even absent the last lingering block, the finished the picture was finally clear.

The boy pulled away with a scowl and tapped on the newspaper puzzle, indicating he wasn't finished.

Donnie had paid no attention to their conversation but having tired of his puzzle, picked up the notebook of letters and numbers and began to study it, turning the binder page by page.

East of Bhutan, amongst the semi-independent hill states which sometimes own allegiance to Tibet and sometimes assert complete freedom from all authority, the geographical puzzle of the course of the Tsanpo, the great river of Tibet, has been solved by the researches of Captain Harman, and the explorations of the native surveyor "K.

It is this irrational and unnatural element - .as Max Muller says, " the silly, savage and senseless element " - that makes mythology the puzzle which men have so long found it.

It is safe to say that no prehistoric monument in Great Britain has given rise to more speculation as to its origin, date and purpose; and although the few hoary stones still extant are but a small portion of the original structure they are still sufficiently imposing to excite the wonder of the passing traveller, and mysterious enough to puzzle the antiquary.

They left the man to his puzzle and attitude and walked around the corner to room 22.

I think no matter what, energy costs will fall dramatically in the future, probably to near zero, because the economic incentives to unlock that technical puzzle are so overwhelming.

Lisa stared at him, fragments of the night before slowly fitting together like a jigsaw puzzle.

The great puzzle connected with the name Geber lies in the character of the writings attributed to him, their style and matter differentiating them strongly from those of even the best authors of the later alchemical period, and making it difficult to account for their existence at all.

He was a puzzle, a man with no memory beyond waking up in the morning.

Donnie sat close to his mother doing a Denver Post crossword puzzle.

However, she said nothing in deference to Edith Shipton's son who remained engrossed with his puzzle.

Such is the intentional obscurity in many of the compositions of these two authors that every sentence becomes a puzzle, over which even a scholarly Ottoman must pause before he can be sure he has found its true meaning.

The second and third species so closely resemble each other, except in size, that their distinctness was for many years unperceived, and in consequence their nomenclature is an almost bewildering puzzle.

Vamps poured out of the fortress into the snow, stopping to puzzle over the brilliant purple lights lancing across the treeline.

Outside of your usual run ' n ' gun action we have stealth, puzzle solving, driving and even airborne sections.

The puzzle was designed by Howard Garns, a retired architect and freelance puzzle constructor, and first published in 1979.

Thus the puzzle of temporal asymmetry here takes a particularly sharp form.

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Hands-on elements include a unique timber-framing puzzle and some dressing-up clothes.

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Tetris is a classic Nintendo puzzle game.

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