brain-teaser

NOUN
  1. a difficult problem
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How To Use brain-teaser In A Sentence

  • Work your mind with brain-teasers, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords or quiz books.
  • BBC1 will devote a Saturday night to the experiment, which should sort out boffins from buffoons by completing a set of brain-teasers.
  • Anyone who has seen me regularly tangle with such brain-teasers as effect/affect, it's/its or theirs/there's would be absolutely unamazed that I might misspell the longest word in the English language.
  • Her grandfather is also an expert in cryptanalysis: dropped behind enemy lines in the war, he now occupies himself compiling crosswords and brain-teasers for a newspaper and decoding a 400-year-old manuscript.
  • The answer to that brain-teaser, it turns out, is the one in Buñuel's SIMON OF THE DESERT, played with minxish aplomb by VIRIDIANA's Silvia Pinal. Mario of the Desert
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