puzzle out

But Maitlis says she spent years "trying to puzzle out" what the words meant.

The prize for puzzling out the best approach could be a spot near the top of every ballot in the country this fall.

He even began to dislike his friends back home for lacking the powers of logic to puzzle out where he was so they could come to his rescue.

Once they had the pseudorandom graph in place, they still had to puzzle out several pieces of math.

The leader of the secretive state has never actually revealed his birthday, leaving North Korea watchers to puzzle out when it actually takes place.