puzzlery

Noun

puzzlery (uncountable)

1. Something that contains puzzles;
   • Want to try to unravel this bid of Talmud puzzlery yourself?2004, Aaron Parry, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Talmud
   • 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...2011, John Harding, Florence and Giles, page 6
2. The process of solving puzzles.
   • The rules of this game are of course a little more complicated than those of jigsaw puzzlery.1964, Noel Victor Riggs, Studies on Some Australian Natural Products, page 3
   • 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.1976, Two Tone, page 6