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brainteaser

[breyn-tee-zer] / ˈbreɪnˌti zər /






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It is less about creating the perfect brainteaser and more about showcasing a flawed family with outsize personalities.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 20, 2023

It turns out that if you want to solve a brainteaser, it helps to have a brain.

From Scientific American • May 25, 2023

Pupils are being challenged to put their codebreaking skills to the test in a festive brainteaser set by the UK's intelligence agency GCHQ.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2022

A psychological brainteaser, “Etta and Ella” gave Kennedy a vital digital platform for her lyrical, eerily seductive imagination.

From Washington Post • Dec. 6, 2021

When he took the part of Henry Carr, the very civil servant at the swirling center of “Travesties,” Tom Stoppard’s 1974 Zurich-set brainteaser, he worried he couldn’t learn it.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2018