Communication

Synonyms for puzzler

The synonym for puzzler recorded in this bank is teaser, in the sense "a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · noun

The synonym for puzzler

teasernoun, in the sense "a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for puzzler.

The sensenounTier 4, High CampCommunication

a particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution

That's a real puzzler.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

teaser

Same sentence, swapped: That's a real teaser.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

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Where puzzler turns up in the game

puzzler is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. 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 puzzler

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so puzzler reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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