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brainteaser

[brayn-tee-zer] / ˈbreɪnˌti zər /






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GCHQ's annual brainteaser comes in the form of the agency's Christmas card, sent by the intelligence organisation's director Anne Keast-Butler.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2024

It is less about creating the perfect brainteaser and more about showcasing a flawed family with outsize personalities.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2023

A psychological brainteaser, “Etta and Ella” gave Kennedy a vital digital platform for her lyrical, eerily seductive imagination.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2021

Consider this brainteaser: “A baseball bat and ball cost $1.10 together. The bat cost $1 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?”

From Scientific American ● Oct. 15, 2021

When he took the part of Henry Carr, the very civil servant at the swirling center of “Travesties,” Tom Stoppard’s 1974 Zurich-set brainteaser, he worried he couldn’t learn it.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2018




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