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Puzzler

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

  2. 2
    a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution wordnet
  3. 3
    A puzzling person.; One who is mysterious.
  4. 4
    A puzzling person.; One who devises puzzles for others to solve.

    "Near-synonyms: riddler, quizzer, setter"

  5. 5
    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."

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  1. 6
    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."

Etymology

From puzzle + -er.

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