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puzzles

  • plural
    of puzzle.
    puzzle
    noun
    a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.
  • present tense form
    of puzzle (3rd person singular).
    puzzle
    noun
    a toy, problem, or other contrivance designed to amuse by presenting difficulties to be solved by ingenuity or patient effort.

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The researchers adjusted the difficulty of the puzzles to determine which parts of the brain became more active as reasoning demands increased.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

Whether or not you like puzzles, you can count on that.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 10, 2026

Writing in The Times, Beard bemoaned that the poem's "erotic puzzles, the teasing ironies, the intriguing questions about truth and falsehood" had been replaced with "a rather ponderous Hollywood message about civilisational decline".

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

He also said he would continue doing the newspaper’s crossword puzzles.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026

They owed to him their two or three politest puzzles; and the joy and exultation with which at last he recalled, and rather sentimentally recited, that well-known charade,

From "Emma" by Jane Austen