brainteaser
Example Sentences
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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
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
Consider this brainteaser: “A baseball bat and ball cost $1.10 together. The bat cost $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?”
From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 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
