How To Use Puzzle In A Sentence

She said two puzzles in particular - a racing problem and ballerina conundrum - had needed a great deal of logical legwork.
Specimens are rarely found in one unbroken piece, and the process of reconstituting them is akin to completing a jigsaw puzzle.
Then take a well-earned rest and relax with all the other amazing puzzles on offer. The Sun
As with all Dizzy games, Crystal Kingdom is jam-packed with perplexing puzzles to solve.
I badly wanted to go on to see the monkey-puzzle forests at the foot of the Andes, to drive the cattle to high summer pasture.

He lay looking at the ceiling, trying to puzzle things out.
I was puzzled that my doctor saw this as a cause for celebration but they are a breed apart.
Clara looked puzzled for a moment—she had forgotten that that was what they called the picnic spot on the Guadalupe. The Lonesome Dove Series
His little puzzle of the speed of light has you completely foxed.
Each dungeon has been redesigned to offer new challenges - and in turn, mess with returning players by remixing the puzzles and the room progression completely.
He disappeared without explanation, to much puzzlement. Times, Sunday Times
[133] The origin of the word leach (physician), which has puzzled some inquirers, is from lids or leac, a body. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 12
And of course, a truckload of educational toys, books, puzzles, games and music.
Puzzled is technically correct that STS uses 2 OMS to do final insert and circ burns. Mike Griffin Wants His Old Job Back - NASA Watch
The important thing is the fun of four people(one thin person included)sitting around a card table, working a jigsaw puzzle.
In puzzle mode that initially just means activating them slowly enough not to cause collisions, but later levels demand deeper experimentation with order and timing before you wheedle out a viable solution. This week's new games
The real puzzler is why on earth anybody bothers voting at all. Times, Sunday Times
But they're also – judging by the other "what is?" search terms – puzzled by sauteed shrimp "what is scampi? Google crowns royal wedding as fastest-rising UK search of 2011
A solitary stem of pink flowering centaury, woven into a sprig of heather still in bloom, presents a visual puzzle. Country diary: New Forest
Since plants suck up more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than anything else on the planet, understanding leaf veins is an important part of grappling with the global carbon budget puzzle.
We have a “game box” and I love sitting with a cup of coffee, watching our children and grandchildren playing board games, working puzzles or playing Uno with the cards Gary, who is blind, has brailed. Christmas Magic
Text us the numbers or letters in the three shaded boxes from your chosen puzzle. The Sun
And a caring, slightly puzzled expression covers Seibei's face as his senile mother constantly asks him which family he is from.
And I, who was, for my age, what Kitty called 'Bible-learned,' said thoughtfully, and with some puzzledness of mind, 'Then he's older than The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
The client would puzzle out an explanation later, if he got informed by letter of his right to exercise the warrants.
His eye fell on the coffee table before his couch, and puzzledly, he picked up the small piece of paper on it.
The puzzler, which is described as poetic, consists of 100 levels. Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions
Officers today said they were puzzled why car makers' badges were being stolen in Eldwick and Gilstead.
Phrenologists became equally puzzled by villains with prominent bumps of honesty and integrity.
I try to limit pop-culture references and colloquial clues to a handful within each puzzle and in general each clue is some form of a dictionary definition.
He conferred again, and I tried to picture the other side of the screen, with the Rani, sharp-faced and thin in her silk shawl, muttering her instructions to him, and puzzled to myself what the odd persistent noise was that I could hear above the soft pipes of the hidden orchestra - a gentle, rhythmic swishing from beyond the screen, as though a huge fan were being used. Fiancée
The three numbers or letters must come from the same puzzle. The Sun
As he wove in and out of the knotted trunks Nick heard the ping, ping around him with a moment's puzzlement. THE WHITE DOVE
In this case, this paper puts forward the industrial organizational policy that can help Chinese pharmaceutical industry to get rid of its innovation puzzledom.
Everyone was a bit puzzled by her sudden departure.
From the very beginning, Tordella was the golden boy of the Puzzle Palace.
Looking surprised, a little boy peers at the elderly woman, who takes the puzzled gaze as a question.
Karen watched in puzzled amazement as he dropped the thing into the wastepaper basket.
It no more lies within the field of morals than does a cross-word puzzle.
There are some puzzles in the game, but nothing too brain taxing.
Mr. Saunders went from looking puzzled to looking baffled. CHARMED LIFE
No wonder there's such a productivity puzzler. Times, Sunday Times
Not that its mysteries will readily reveal themselves: one finds oneself rereading passages to crack its subtle enigmas, tantalised by the missing puzzle piece that lies just beyond all that is visible.
Ptolemy Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were putting a jigsaw puzzle together, a scene of flowers, grass, and butterflies painted on thin wood that some master craftsman with a fretsaw had cut into small, irregular pieces. Antony and Cleopatra
He also taught him the knack of solving cryptic clues in crossword puzzles.
Another casket presents the adventurers with an intriguing puzzle.
I often feel like many aspects of my personality remain child-like and unformed, while in other areas I feel a wisdom that belies my age - possible naive musings, but questions that puzzle me on occasion.
And I, who was, for my age, what Kitty called 'Bible-learned,' said thoughtfully, and with some puzzledness of mind, 'Then he's older than Snap-Dragons: A Tale of Christmas Eve; and Old Father Christmas: An Old-Fashioned Tale of the Young Days of a Grumpy Old Godfather
Some surprisingly inventive puzzles are included amid the expertly handled robot blasting and leaping around with a jetpack. Times, Sunday Times
Can the India of the Vedas and the Puranas make her mother's dream existence comprehensible to Rakhi, unravelling a lifelong puzzle?
But none of the puzzles are so stupidly designed as to totally baffle players.
I once got through half a sudoku puzzle while being on the job, so to speak. The Sun
Moonlights is a tower building physics puzzler, that will challenge the brain and the physics skills of the whole family. As is, the game is g...
In the guest categories, lots of Saturday Night Live guest hosts, including double-dipper Tina Fey and Justin Timberlake, and Glee headliners like Kristin Chenoweth and Gwyneth Paltrow, but the real puzzlement is Raising Hope's Cloris Leachman, who was a regular cast member in everything but actual billing. Critic's Notebook: The Emmy Nominations
Another piece of the jigsaw in the puzzle surrounding her whereabouts is the simultaneous disappearance of her pet miniature dachshund, Boris. The Sun
Some of the puzzle pieces are missing.
It's a puzzle where all my money goes each week.
But you seem to have asked the question a couple of times, and I am a bit puzzled by that.
This process is akin to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle.
Beneath the cartoon graphics lurks a series of puzzles so fiendish and ingenious that only a twisted mastermind could think of them. Times, Sunday Times
He gave them all a puzzled look but could tell they were in a serious conversation, so he didn't push it.
This is the hardest poem to puzzle out, but the most rewarding. Times, Sunday Times
Wearing a plain cotton T-shirt and a long, casual skirt with sandals, Piper folded her arms, her expression puzzled. Beware What You Wish
Solving an author's puzzles can be one of the most rewarding things about cracking open a book.
It is a puzzle with a familiar ring to it.
Meanwhile, corals bud on, and both their sexual and asexual activities provide evidence of reproductive success and hybrid forms that continue to puzzle geneticists.
I watch as John starts to log the vehicle's details on his computer, but am slightly puzzled when he leans over and closely inspects its wheels.
It's good for students to puzzle things out for themselves.
He looked down at it, more puzzled than pained, then struck her a backhanded swipe that had her stumbling back towards the door. EVERVILLE
The puzzle is too difficult; I shall give it up.
I was puzzled about how to eat the long and large segment of pig's bone positioned in the middle of the plate in front of me with a straw stretching into it.
Wasif was laughing though, fit to burst, and the people of the teahouse were gathering around with puzzled but interested faces, peering. KARA KUSH
Within these lines she made little dots at the top and bottom of stubby perpendicular strokes, and strange interlineal hieroglyphics, and sweeping curves, all of which would have puzzled an The Place of Honeymoons
She was wound up, jumbled inside like a spilled jigsaw puzzle.
Gordon Brown's premiership is dissected, Moyles gets mad and Melvyn Bragg is left puzzled Rewind radio: The Brown Years; Chris Moyles; In Our Time
My sister puzzles me and causes me anxiety.
She bounced on the springy seat, playing with the wire puzzle Cinnamon had bought for her.
No, what puzzled us was Chuck Colson's elliptical logic and weird similes.
It'll irritate me, this will, until I've puzzled it out.
Our simple and occasionally fun jargon uncloaks what are truly complex concepts and grants the reporter and the public an opportunity to think about the ideas rather than puzzle over the names of things.
You lose a point if you do not complete the puzzle on time.
Ted uses lots of catchy songs, puzzles and word games to help the children have fun and learn while watching.
There are these bits and pieces of evidence that you can put together like a puzzle.
All that was needed abroad or at home was to repeat the same sentence more slowly at a puzzled auslander, if that didn't work it was polite to bellow it repeatedly while frothing at the mouth until puce. Army Rumour Service
She fitted naturally and comfortably into the crook of my arm like the missing piece of a puzzle. Times, Sunday Times
They're trying to solve the puzzle of how gravity works.
Bizarre, perhaps, it was, and Oriental enough to puzzle any passing ethnologist. THE STORY OF JEES UCK
In doing so, the court presumably would have to face the question that has puzzled the patent office for decades and philosophers for eons: What makes us human?
In Story mode, unscramble moving puzzles to reveal a hidden story.
Canabalt, their hit followup to word puzzler Wurdle. Gamasutra Feature Articles
He scrolled back and forth through the material he'd downloaded, puzzled. THE LAST TEMPTATION
He only began his writings at the age of 52 and his ranting style of delivery, often on street corners to a puzzled audience, marked him out for a lifetime of ridicule and poverty.
He was in the habit of doing crossword puzzles while casing premises prior to breaking and entering, and would always obligingly leave them behind for police to find.
She forgot how the puzzle fitted together.
You will find yourself on a mysterious and uninhabited island, solving loads of puzzles to unlock its secrets. The Sun
A puzzle that immediately arises is how this complex reflexive communicative intention is meant to be recognized by the recipient.
The model reflected the coupling optimization essence in topology optimization matter and effectively averted the puzzle of "ultimate stress" and "singular solution" on topology optimization matter.
The global measurements to be provided by the imminent GRACE mission and by continuing efforts in satellite altimetry are expected to provide a definitive solution to this important climatological and geophysical puzzle.
As a crossword puzzler myself and the daughter of a crossword addict who competed in the national competition filmed for the movie Wordplay, I know both how fun and frustrating they can be. What's the Connection?: Winning...and Losing
He promises that there are no insoluble puzzles in the story - if you pay attention, Primer eventually gives up all its ghosts.
The only thing that really puzzled me was the first sentence (Now that fur is back in vogue, I've been thinking about splurging on a coat this winter): If fur is back in vogue, then why are pelt prices in the dumper right now? Why Real Fur Is Greener Than Fake
Puzzled anger at the sudden uproar crossed Henry's face, but his wife spoke first in clipped tones.
Puzzle Planet is the latest attraction at the centre where you can pit your wits against a series of mazes, brainteasers and puzzles to see if you've got the brains to be an astronomer.
One of the most important pieces of the puzzle is the required multi-path I/O device drivers and recommended FC adapter firmware (Microcode) levels.
As he finished speaking, several pieces of the puzzle fell together.
I am puzzled and troubled by this in light of my previous decision.
Again this is a puzzler, because now that they know the name of the Bahamian running it, you think that they could shut it down.
these puzzles are famous for their trickiness
And the plot amply delivers the expected satisfactions of an intricate puzzle adroitly solved.
My frazzled brain keeps on trying to master the fundamentals and yesterday I proudly completed my first ‘tough’ puzzle (four hours, twelve minutes).
The assertion that the noise of the parachutes opening can be terrifying puzzles me somewhat.
And this I get plenty of opportunity to do - to puzzle at it, I mean.
And then there's the "Get Today's Puzzles" button, a simple but indispensible tool that makes being a lunatic cruciverbalist that much easier. Six Letters, Magical Device
From the very beginning, Tordella was the golden boy of the Puzzle Palace.
Pieces of the puzzle suddenly clicked together.
Batman has a device called a cryptographic sequencer, which serves as an electronic puzzle solving tool Rogue's gallery: Several of Batman's most well-known villains appear in Arkham City, including Two-Face... ... and Catwoman, Batman's on-again off-again girlfriend/nemisis How're ya doin', Mr B? Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles
I was a little puzzled by the rice paddies that seem to be planted in the Forest of Arden, but I loved the trees, and I loved the 1930oid costuming -- except for Rosalind's polo shirt and khakis and little porkpie hat, which made her look like a baby Ellen DeGeneres. As You Like It at BAM
Do a puzzle in another room in dim light to help you doze Open a window in a hot, stuffy bedroom. The Sun
Following is a more detailed description of the French cooper's compass with a solution to the connection puzzle.
In the boardroom, they debated the issue of Stella's corporateness versus Chris's droning voice, until at last the moment came for Lord Sugar to struggle through the puzzle of formulating a sentence that ended with the words "You're hired". Rewind TV: Doctor Who; The Nativity; Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express; Come Fly With Me
The point is of course that the puzzle itself is false in setting up an impossible situation.
He smiled at her puzzled, then stood up, helping her also to stand.
Here's a puzzler: what's the difference between 'advice', 'informal advice' and 'preliminary observations'? Times, Sunday Times
No wonder our students are puzzled by the disjunction between course readings and academic writing assignments.
So, you could say I am having the best of my childhood now, buying bears, jigsaw puzzles, paper dolls and what have you.
What a great prize for doing what you love - our great puzzles. The Sun
Tetralogy of Fallot, the most common form of a serious congenital heart defect also known as blue baby syndrome, has always been something of a puzzle.
He must negotiate puzzles, spring boards, buttons and other contraptions laying in his path.
Immense amounts of money were squandered, reputations were tarnished, and the consumer was left, as is so often the case, chagrined, puzzled, shortchanged, miffed.
His eyes drop, and he drifts with the wild ice ticking seaward down the Hudson, like the blank sides of a jigsaw puzzle.
What puzzles me is how you can find anybody left in the world who isn't hep.
Which side is right? The point is of course that the puzzle itself is false in setting up an impossible situation.
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within. Sigmund Freud
Mathilde was puzzled by Isabelle's apparent change of heart.
He was trying to puzzle things out when an orb of light came slowly down into the crevice.
Solve the puzzle the pinup girl. After solving the puzzle you get another sexy girl puzzle to solve.
Youngsters at The Compton Primary School in Long Compton and St Mary's Primary, Evesham, found out how the ingredients of hot cross buns were produced as the Food Puzzle was unravelled to them.
But after we began to inquire after the cause of this disease, the first thing that puzzled us was to find out the reason why bulimy seizes upon those that travel in the snow. Essays and Miscellanies
The sudden fall in the value of the dollar has puzzled financial experts.
These puzzles are not difficult or complicated, they are simple and straightforward.
The puzzle niggled away in Arnold's mind.
The reality is that childcare is mainly a jigsaw puzzle. Times, Sunday Times
When Mr. Shortz, who sold his first puzzle at 14 and received a degree in enigmatology (read: games) from the University of Indiana, took over the Times crossword, he broadened the subjects and added popular culture, which is why the Simpsons keep showing up as clues. Upright Citizens Brigade �� Crossword King ('Wearz Bermuda ------') on TV Clues; CBS's I Want My Daddy
This puzzle has well and truly foxed me!
Many people are puzzled by us, and their anxious befuddlement translates into crude stereotyping or, unconsciously perhaps, a refusal to see us at all. Where are all the lesbians?
Pop-up ads disguised as Windows system administration alerts annoy users and puzzle security experts.
Each puzzle is part filled, and your challenge is to complete the unfilled squares with numbers from 1 to 9.
I bet you can't do this puzzle.
One puzzle was how the bacteria could survive the intense ultraviolet rays of the sunshine so high up in the atmosphere. Times, Sunday Times
In the brain teasers section, you'll find games that kids can learn to strategise with - battleground games, interlocking puzzles, colour-identification games like Chinese spiel, the mathematical hex game, and the eternal boredom-ridder - tic-tac-toe. The Hindu - Front Page
The winner will be the fastest contestant who solves all three puzzles correctly in the grand final. Times, Sunday Times
But White Fang, uncompanionable, solitary, morose, scarcely looking to right or left, redoubtable, forbidding of aspect, remote and alien, was accepted as an equal by his puzzled elders.
Jones says he was a bit puzzled by feminist critics who took the film to task for being misogynist.
The girl who once called herself Jill Blando always harboured a sense of puzzlement that people found her clever, talented and beautiful.
Traces of explosives found among the wreckage were the key to the puzzle.
In her class, reading and writing seemed to be prohibited, but we were provided with mounds of clay, papier-mâché, puzzles, and all kinds of noneducational items. Blue Rage, Black Redemption
There are several explanations to the puzzle of stock split. We think the trading range hypothesis under the background of asymmetric information may be a more reasonable answer.
Imagine an integer grid overlaid on top of the puzzle with the origin at the center of the board.
This erotics of identification invariably frustrates the viewers' anticipations and appeals instead to their puzzle-solving abilities.
She's full of stories and takes the mickey out of herself with a nice combination of faux puzzlement and sarcasm. Times, Sunday Times
Most foreign observers might be forgiven for a little puzzlement at all the fuss.
Their sliding-block puzzles often featured differently shaped pieces in rectangular trays.
The title combines over 100 logic puzzles with a charming story line and an appealing graphical style reminiscent of French animation. The game retail industry according to MCV
It's got structure, but it's like unravelling a puzzle.
He reminded me of Reese Witherspoons dad in the Blonde flick, who is standing by the pool with his martini glass and asks her with bored puzzlement in his voice, as she floats in the pool with her hotpink sequined bikini, 'whyever would you want to go to law school Elle, that is for boring folks who want to work, not us .... CT-SEN: Lieberman Ahead In New Poll
They were fragments, broken pieces of some nonsense puzzle, adding to nothing.
The term benevolent compassion puzzled Noam Cohen, executive editor of Inside.com and a former copy editor at the New York Times. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
gloam" is the word from the crossword puzzle that we couldn't figure out! so we made up the word g'voam instead. Whatever the morning version of "the gloaming" is...
No soap opera elements, no deep character studies, just an hour where you put the puzzle pieces together, the characters catch the bad guy, and they go home.
Work your mind with brain-teasers, jigsaw puzzles, crosswords or quiz books.
There were infinitesimal cracks in the sides of the box, where one piece of the puzzle abutted the next. THE HELLBOUND HEART
Puzzles can be created by saving cardboard packaging from cereal boxes, detergent boxes, soda cartons, etc.
Logic puzzles unlock new areas once they are solved. Times, Sunday Times
The student was puzzled about what to do next.
And the trainer did not forget his back up team at Rosewell House either, adding ‘Many people were concerned in last Tuesday's effort and my staff did a wonderful job with Media Puzzle.’
The puzzle games challenge you dogs 'ability to conceptualize which is larger, smaller or different. Tcpalm.com Stories
Another potential application of work on categories lies in the idea that various mistakes and puzzlements in ontology can be traced to the mistaken belief that category-neutral existential and quantificational claims are truth-evaluable (see Thomasson 2007). Categories
The detectives were beginning to solve the murder. All the pieces in the puzzle were falling neatly into place.
Mrs Sykes seemed slightly puzzled by this.
He would gaze amazedly out the window at a landscape he had only dared to imagine, yet he would be puzzled by the human scene in the cabin. A Laboratory in the Sky
He soon became a cornucopia of trivia, and one day decided to have a shot at creating his own puzzle, just for a lark.
Professor Ito has solved the puzzle and everyone is cheering.
this puzzle will exercise your mind
The Book Fest event will include pentomino puzzle activities. Southern Maryland community calendar, July 8-15, 2010
I have been, in return, telling him the story of the Irish schoolmaster who puzzled the magistrate's bench by a petition about a small cornuted animal, meaning a kid. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1
A failure to solve a puzzle is seen as a failure of the scientist rather than as an inadequacy of the paradigm.
On the train back, Steve and I raced each other to do the puzzles in consecutive issues of Metro, but I'm hopeless at crosswords and got stuck on mine after two clues.
The surprise caused by this puzzle can be expressed in probabilistic terms.
Simply combine them together like a puzzle to make great new flavours. The Sun
Lord High Treasurer of England, and master of the fate of Europe, that his admirers began to find out that he was really a dull puzzleheaded man. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
Can you work out the answers to these fiendish riddles and puzzles? The Sun
It was the peculiar accent that puzzled me before; it made Alice's words sound garbled, nonsensical.
It's a puzzle where all my money goes each week.
Puzzles must be unlocked to advance the story, which is moving, well told and pretty darn sad. The Sun
Maybe they might now address some of life's other baffling puzzles. Times, Sunday Times
A puzzler for the impaired - what sort of ‘asset’ requires that you borrow more money to cash it in?
The complexity of the road map puzzled me.
The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles, conundrums and endless interpretations.
Tenent, as head of the CIA, was a "supervisor" of interrogators and was privy to ALL the puzzle pieces -- who knows, he may have been physically present at some as well -- we know that McCain WAS present as an interrogatee (sp?) and gave up accurate and classified info too. Balkinization

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