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puzzler

noun puzzlers

  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.

    Similar: puzzle, puzzlement, stumper, enigma, brainteaser

  2. One who is mysterious.

    Similar: enigma

  3. One who devises puzzles for others to solve. Near-synonyms: riddler, quizzer, setter

    Similar: riddler, quizzer, setter

  4. A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve. With the exception of certain handheld titles […], puzzlers (such as the countless Tetris iterations), and download-only games […], two-dimensional gaming has largely become a lost art, alienating many of us who grew up in a 2D virtual world.
  5. 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.

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@misc{puzzler_2026,
  title = {puzzler},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/puzzler},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}