Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for conundrum
The synonym for conundrum recorded in this bank is quandary, in the sense "a confusing and difficult problem or question". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for conundrum
- quandarynoun, in the sense "a confusing and difficult problem or question"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day conundrum is audited in a second meaning.
a confusing and difficult problem or question
The budget shortfall posed a conundrum with no easy fix.
The true synonym
quandary
Same sentence, swapped: The budget shortfall posed a quandary with no easy fix.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot conundrum is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- travesty
- catastrophe
- scandal
Where conundrum turns up in the game
conundrum is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play conundrum
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so conundrum reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Ridgeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. conundrum carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.