puzzlemasters

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
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