Meaning

Something that contains puzzles;.

Definitions by Sense

1. Something that contains puzzles;
2. The process of solving puzzles.

Example Sentences

Want to try to unravel this bid of Talmud puzzlery yourself?

Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.

The rules of this game are of course a little more complicated than those of jigsaw puzzlery.

Personally, I enjoy the challenge of this jig-saw puzzlery but oh, how I long for a few neat clerihews of four or five lines, some vivid haikus with their seventeen syllables, or a tiny one verse gem.

I trust that the company manufacturing this particular brand of cigarettes — the last successful holdover from the Arabian Nights names of many of the earlier American brands, such as "Fatima," etc. — will not disagree that most of the 'blue' gags in impromptu magic and puzzlery that concern cigarettes center around the “Camel” brand.

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When Should You Use Puzzlery?

Use puzzlery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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