Puzzlemaster

A few puzzles come from Sam Loyd, the famous nineteenth-century American puzzlemaster.

In this book, we offer you the challenge of breaking several types of real ciphers and cryptograms, all devised by noted Australian puzzlemaster Denise Sutherland (author of Word Searches For Dummies [Wiley]).

To get us to try a little harder, at dinner we played a little game that I called "Can You Say?" As Bossy Mama, I acted as puzzlemaster, and did my best to challenge the kids without ever stumping them.

The first Ebola puzzle went up six months ago, and biochemists are following up on some of the virus-blocking designs developed by Foldit's puzzlemasters.

During escape games, puzzlemasters are seated in a control room, giving players hints when they're needed. [Nicole] Chan is considered the head puzzlemaster at Trapology—she designs the challenges and puzzles for her games.

Tracy Bennett — the puzzlemaster with best job in the Wordle

After eight months the musical 3-year-olds were expert puzzlemasters, scoring 80 percent higher than their playmates did in spatial intelligence -- the ability to visualize the world accurately.

In any case, even the puzzlemaster could find no clues in the weird notations.

What kind of challenge? I had no idea. I sighed and looked around the warehouse. I felt like a puzzlemaster surrounded by pieces, none of them fitting together as if they were from different puzzles.