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# puzzler

«puzzler» in Mova's school dictionary: **hard to understand or solve: «That riddle is a real…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a puzzler, puzzlers)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A question, problem or mystery that is hard to understand or solve: «That riddle is a real puzzler.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#m1)

2) A person who enjoys doing puzzles, like crosswords or sudoku. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#m2)

3) A puzzler can also be a person who is hard to understand or figure out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and olympiad lessons a puzzler is a tricky problem that needs clever thinking; in everyday life it is anything that confuses you; in stories a mystery can be «a puzzler» for the detective. Phrases: «a real puzzler», «a bit of a puzzler», «keen puzzler».

### examples

- Here's a puzzler: what has keys but can't open locks? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#x1)
- Question 10 on the maths test was a real puzzler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#x2)
- Why the cat kept hiding the socks was a puzzler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#x3)
- Grandma is a keen puzzler who does the crossword every day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#x4)
- The missing biscuits were a puzzler until we found crumbs on the dog. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#x5)
- The teacher gives us a Friday puzzler to solve in pairs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#x6)
- He is a puzzler, take him how you will." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/#x7)

### note

Countable: puzzler, puzzlers. Informal and friendly. Related: puzzle (noun and verb), puzzled (confused), puzzling (confusing). The answer to the keys riddle is «a piano».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «puzzler» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/puzzler/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.