puzzle


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puzzle

a toy, game, or question presenting a problem that requires skill or ingenuity for its solution
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"Well," said Dorothy, "there used to be a picture puzzle craze in Kansas, and so I've had some 'sperience matching puzzles.
Were I not a really good puzzle, there would be no object in my scattering myself."
She proved an easier puzzle than old Larry, and when she was completed they found her a pleasant old lady who welcomed them cordially.
"Never; for we are no puzzles to ourselves, and so there wouldn't be any fun in it."
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"That's another one of his puzzles, I guess, because nobody knows what a spirit looks like."
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I found myself wondering what she had meant by this and that; I did not see that when she began to puzzle me she was already lost to me.
This puzzle has done me more harm than the loss of her.
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Buzz Bingo has created Puzzled Out - an interactive challenge of 10 puzzles, each with a piece missing.
Only 0.6% of Brits can solve these mind-bending puzzles - can you? Buzz Bingo has created Puzzled Out - an interactive challenge of 10 puzzles, each with a piece missing; Buzz Bingo has created Puzzled Out - an interactive challenge of 10 puzzles, each with a piece missing
The puzzle was actually a part of a time capsule which wasn't meant to be opened for another 35 years - as that was the amount of time estimated to crack the puzzle, Wired reported.
Programmer solves 20-year-old cryptographic puzzle
The following pages contain five puzzles. The first four are Sudoku puzzles which use letters instead of numbers.
SENTENCE SUDOKU PUZZLES
Just try to walk by an unfinished jigsaw puzzle without stopping.
Little-known facts about the history of jigsaw puzzles
Timothy Parker's new game syndicate will include direct-to-consumer puzzles - and all-new free puzzles for newspapers and online sites.
Timothy Parker, Guinness World Records Puzzle Master, Leaving Universal Crossword After 21 Years, 8,100 Puzzles

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