a computer game in which players have to solve puzzles
puzzler in American English
(ˈpʌzlər)
noun
1.
a person who puzzles
2.
a baffling thing or problem
3.
a person who is occupied or amused by solving puzzles
Word origin
[1645–55; puzzle + -er1]This word is first recorded in the period 1645–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: bulletin, capsule, soup, vibration, vortex-er is a suffix used in forming nouns designating persons from the object of their occupationor labor (hatter; tiler; tinner; moonshiner), or from their place of origin or abode (Icelander; southerner; villager), or designating either persons or things from some special characteristic or circumstance(six-footer; three-master; teetotaler; fiver; tenner)
Examples of 'puzzler' in a sentence
puzzler
Another week, another match-three puzzler — this time with a combat twist.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Still, it is a bit of a puzzler.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
So what's it doing releasing a cutesy puzzler?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
All the same, one puzzler: why does geography count in electronic data storage?
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In fact, it may well be the trickiest puzzler this century.
The Sun (2013)
The real puzzler is why on earth anybody bothers voting at all.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
No wonder there's such a productivity puzzler.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Here's a puzzler: what's the difference between 'advice', 'informal advice' and 'preliminary observations'?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But here's a puzzler that's long foxed scientists: do companies resemble their customers?