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puzzlemaster

puzzlemaster noun: someone who designs or creates puzzles.

Noun

puzzlemaster (plural puzzlemasters)

  1. Someone who designs or creates puzzles.
    • A few puzzles come from Sam Loyd, the famous nineteenth-century American puzzlemaster.2005, Clifford A[lan] Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 7
    • In this book, we offer you the challenge of breaking several types of real ciphers and cryptograms, all devised by noted Australian puzzlemaster Denise Sutherland (author of Word Searches For Dummies [Wiley]).2010, Denis Sutherland, Mark E Koltko Rivera, chapter 1, in Cracking Codes and Cryptograms, Indianapolis, I.N.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 9
  2. Someone exceptionally skilled at solving puzzles.
    • After eight months the musical 3-year-olds were expert puzzlemasters, scoring 80 percent higher than their playmates did in spatial intelligence -- the ability to visualize the world accurately.1996 February 18, “Why Do Schools Flunk Biology?”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2022
    • In any case, even the puzzlemaster could find no clues in the weird notations.2009, Jeffery Deaver, chapter 25, in Roadside Crosses, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN, page 235

Examples of puzzlemaster in a sentence

  • The first Ebola puzzle went up six months ago, and biochemists are following up on some of the virus-blocking designs developed by Foldit's puzzlemasters.2014 August 29, Alan Boyle, “Foldit Video Gamers Join the Fight Against Ebola Virus”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 19 Dec...
  • Tracy Bennett — the puzzlemaster with best job in the Wordle2022 November 13, Laura Pullman, “(article title)”, in Time, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Nov 2022:
  • I felt like a puzzlemaster surrounded by pieces, none of them fitting together as if they were from different puzzles.2012, Deborah Coonts, So Damn Lucky, →ISBN, page 153:

Forms of puzzlemaster

pluralpuzzlemasters

Origin of puzzlemaster

From puzzle + master.

Questions about puzzlemaster

What does puzzlemaster mean?
Puzzlemaster means someone who designs or creates puzzles.
How do you use puzzlemaster in a sentence?
The first Ebola puzzle went up six months ago, and biochemists are following up on some of the virus-blocking designs developed by Foldit's puzzlemasters.
What part of speech is puzzlemaster?
Puzzlemaster is a noun.
What is the plural of puzzlemaster?
The plural of puzzlemaster is puzzlemasters.

Words near puzzlemaster in the dictionary

  1. puzzleheads
  2. puzzlehunt
  3. puzzlehunts
  4. puzzleless
  5. puzzlelike
  6. puzzlemaster
  7. puzzlemasters
  8. puzzlement
  9. puzzlements
  10. puzzlenut tree
  11. puzzler

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