noun, first as an abstract noun meaning 'the state or condition of being puzzled', and later developing the meaning of 'a perplexing problem'. The OED's...

In medicine, confusion is the quality or state of being bewildered or unclear. The term "acute mental confusion" is often used interchangeably with delirium...

Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test problem-solving skills, including...

Frege's puzzles are puzzles about the semantics of proper names, although related puzzles also arise in the case of indexicals. Gottlob Frege (1848–1925)...

Disentanglement puzzles (also called entanglement puzzles, tanglement puzzles, tavern puzzles or topological puzzles) are a type or group of mechanical puzzle that...

Matchstick puzzles are rearrangement puzzles in which a number of matchsticks are arranged into shapes or numbers, and the problem to solve is usually...

A puzzle globe (also called jigsaw globe, globe puzzle, puzzle ball, puzzle sphere or spherical puzzle) is a spherical assembly of puzzle pieces that...

Puzzled Pint is a monthly, casual, social puzzle solving event. It is held every second Tuesday in 50+ cities around the world, with every location using...

Queendom Puzzle (Korean: 퀸덤 퍼즐) is a 2023 South Korean reality competition show created by Mnet. It premiered on Mnet on June 13, 2023, airing every Tuesday...

Look up monkey puzzle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Monkey Puzzle may refer to: Araucaria araucana, the monkey puzzle tree, a species of conifer...

A puzzle ring is a jewelry ring made up of multiple interconnected bands, which is a type of mechanical puzzle most likely developed as an elaboration...

A puzzle box (also called a secret box or trick box) is a box that can be opened only by solving a puzzle. Some require only a simple move and others...

Washington) Race In The City (an Amazing Race-style event in Toronto) Puzzled Pint (a monthly puzzle hunt aimed at beginner to intermediate teams) Prehistoric Puzzlehunt...

The -gry puzzle is a popular word puzzle that asks for the third English word that ends with the letters -gry other than angry and hungry. Specific wording...

Situation puzzles are often referred to as minute mysteries, lateral thinking puzzles or "yes/no" puzzles. Situation puzzles are usually played in a group...

A logic puzzle is a puzzle deriving from the mathematical field of deduction. The logic puzzle was first produced by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better...

Puzzle Quest is a series of puzzle video games where tile-matching serves as the combat for a role-playing video game. The first game was released in 2007:...

puzzles are logic puzzles, which are examples of multi-agent reasoning, where the solution evolves along with the principle of induction. A puzzle's scenario...

The T puzzle is a tiling puzzle consisting of four polygonal shapes which can be put together to form a capital T. The four pieces are usually one isosceles...

The 15 puzzle (also called Gem Puzzle, Boss Puzzle, Game of Fifteen, Mystic Square and more) is a sliding puzzle. It has 15 square tiles numbered 1 to...

The Puzzle Palace is a book written by James Bamford and published in 1982. It is the first major, popular work devoted entirely to the history and workings...

The Puzzle and Snuggles are the nineteenth and the twentieth studio albums by Canadian metal musician Devin Townsend, released on his own label HevyDevy...

Bag (also called Corral or Cave) is a binary-determination logic puzzle published by Nikoli. Bag is played on a rectangular grid, usually of dashed lines...

Plaskett's Puzzle Gijs van Breukelen, 1970 Plaskett's Puzzle is a chess endgame study created by the Dutch endgame composer Gijs van Breukelen (February...

A combination puzzle, also known as a sequential move puzzle, is a puzzle which consists of a set of pieces which can be manipulated into different combinations...

Jigsaw Puzzle may refer to: Jigsaw puzzle, a tiling puzzle "Jigsaw Puzzle" (song), by the Rolling Stones, 1968 Jigsawpuzzle, video games for the DC and...

a puzzle, the solver must find a solution that satisfies the given conditions. Mathematical puzzles require mathematics to solve them. Logic puzzles are...

Games & Puzzles was a magazine about games and puzzles. The magazine was first published in May 1972 by Edu-Games (UK) Ltd. The first editor was Graeme...

In cryptography, Merkle's Puzzles is an early construction for a public-key cryptosystem, a protocol devised by Ralph Merkle in 1974 and published in...

A balance puzzle or weighing puzzle is a logic puzzle about balancing items—often coins—to determine which holds a different value, by using balance scales...