1. a game, toy, or problem designed to test ingenuity or knowledge
2. something that is difficult to understand or explain

1. to cause someone to feel confused because they cannot understand something
2. to think hard about something in order to understand it

Examples

• She spent hours working on the crossword puzzle.
• The children enjoyed putting together the 500-piece jigsaw puzzle.
• His sudden disappearance remains a puzzle to investigators.
• The professor’s explanation puzzled the students.
• I’m still puzzling over what she meant by that comment.
• The detective puzzled through the evidence to solve the case.
• This math problem is quite a puzzle.