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puzzler

puzzler

2 4.6
A person who likes to solve puzzles
  • noun
  • /ˈpʌzlər/
translation icon : aficionado a los acertijos
  • A group where the avid and maybe sometimes fanatic Stave trick puzzlers can share their learnings, victories, and hints as they conquer the challenges of trick puzzles.

Examples

  • And I guess as puzzlers, we're particularly interested in this number, which you would call as a graph theorist, the diameter of the graph.

  • With an FPS, you can reuse things more often and with less worry about perfectly unique artistic design in every area, since people aren't as likely to examine them closely; with an exploration-puzzler game, you have to make each part unique.

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  • So, yeah, you are a puzzler, whether you know it or not.

  • Most puzzlers have experienced, early on in a large puzzle, the maddening sense that a piece is missing.

    Academic text (1998)
  • Puzzler, thank you.

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  • The other puzzler, of course, is how the hell the journal allowed itself to print Greenfield's wacky musings in the first place.

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  • Vita PS Plus puzzler

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  • It goes to innovative platformers, puzzlers, you know, the stuff that's cropping up on Steam.

  • As a dedicated puzzler, she spends hours each week completing complex jigsaw puzzles.

  • In the local competition, he was recognized as the fastest puzzler, solving challenging brainteasers in record time.

Synonyms

solver
vspuzzler
20 3.9

A person who finds answers to problems by thinking carefully, like puzzles or math questions

enjoys puzzles more as leisure, not just logical problem fixing
problem solver
vspuzzler
12 3.1

A person who finds answers to difficult situations

enjoys puzzle-solving for fun rather than only solving complex issues
puzzlehead
vspuzzler
7.5

A person who likes solving puzzles like crosswords and Sudoku

enjoys puzzles but also tackles difficult non-puzzle problems
unraveler
vspuzzler
  • US
6.6

A person who finds the cause of a problem and makes it clear

enjoys solving puzzles not only untangling practical complications

How Enthusiastic

fanatic
8 4.3
puzzler
2 4.6
enthusiast
81 3.4
aficionado
27 7.7
solver
20 3.9

Surface Forms

puzzler singular
puzzlers plural

Morphology

puzzler = puzzle (transparent) = puzzle + er

This is a regular noun for a person associated with or fond of puzzles, so the meaning is readily predictable from the base and suffix.

Etymology

The word puzzler comes from puzzle ('something that confuses') and the ending -er ('one who' or 'thing that'). So a puzzler is a person who enjoys finding the answer to hard problems and puzzles.