puzzle🔊

Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.

A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.

A crossword puzzle.

A jigsaw puzzle.

A riddle.

(archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.

The state of being puzzled; perplexity.

To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.

To think long and carefully in bewilderment.

To make intricate or difficult to resolve; to entangle.