🧩 A puzzle fan 🕵️ A mysterious person 🤔 An absent-minded person

puzzlehead

7.5

A person who likes solving puzzles like crosswords and Sudoku

noun
/ˈpʌzlˌhɛd/

: aficionado a los rompecabezas

As a true puzzlehead, she spends hours every weekend working on crosswords and Sudoku.

Examples

The club is full of puzzleheads who love to challenge each other with tricky riddles.
He became known as the office puzzlehead after winning the company brainteaser contest.
She is a real puzzlehead when it comes to crosswords.
Many puzzleheads gather at the local cafe to solve riddles.
As a true puzzlehead, she spends hours every weekend working on crosswords and Sudoku.
The club is full of puzzleheads who love to challenge each other with tricky riddles.
He became known as the office puzzlehead after winning the company brainteaser contest.

Synonyms

puzzler

vspuzzlehead

2 4.6

A person who likes to solve puzzles

enjoys solving brainteasers mainly as a hobby rather than for serious problems

How Enthusiastic

puzzlehead

7.5

puzzler

2 4.6

Surface Forms

puzzlehead singular

puzzleheads plural

Morphology

puzzlehead = puzzle + head (transparent) = puzzle + head

Clear compound 'puzzle' + 'head' meaning a person characterized by puzzles (one who enjoys or does puzzles).

Etymology

Puzzlehead combines puzzle ('a question or game that makes you think') and head ('person'). So a puzzlehead is someone whose head loves puzzles, a person who enjoys solving crosswords and brainteasers.