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brainteaser

[breyn-tee-zer] / ˈbreɪnˌti zər /






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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

It turns out that if you want to solve a brainteaser, it helps to have a brain.

From Scientific American May 25, 2023

Pupils are being challenged to put their codebreaking skills to the test in a festive brainteaser set by the UK's intelligence agency GCHQ.

From BBC Dec. 14, 2022

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

From Washington Post Dec. 6, 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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