someone who studies and writes mathematical, word or logic puzzles
The Times’s crossword editor, Will Shortz, has been puzzling readers since 1993. The world’s only academic enigmatologist, Mr. Shortz designed his own major at Indiana University ...
Submitted by: Kerry from United Kingdom on 16/03/2016
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The creation of a word for referring to the science of puzzle construction doesn’t seem unreasonable, given the existence of the many other, rather more obscure ‘-ologies’ which have existed in the English language for centuries (e.g. algology, the science or study of seaweeds, dating from 1849 according to the Shorter Oxford Dictionary).