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Recent Examples of brainteaser
Play Game Don’t miss our crosswords, quizzes, and other brainteasers.
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The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
How To Play 'Connections' To start the brainteaser, players are given a table of 16 words.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
How to Play 'Connections' The brainteaser tasks players with grouping 16 words into four categories based on association.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Purple: These words are associated with a probability brainteaser.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
How To Play 'Connections' To start the brainteaser, players are given a table of 16 words.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Feb. 2025
How to Play 'Connections' The brainteaser tasks players with grouping 16 words into four categories based on association.
—Raul A. Reyes, Newsweek, 23 Jan. 2025
Purple: These words are associated with a probability brainteaser.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for brainteaser
Noun
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The next puzzle will be available at midnight in your time zone.—
Mark Cooper,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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Yet the organization that cracks this puzzle, delivering a holistic, user-friendly experience at scale, could seize a massive share of the consumer finance market.—
Zennon Kapron,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Expect to wrestle with the grim power of propaganda and the dangerous riddle of just what is real, in what is surely a work of fantastic escapism … right?—
Colin Dwyer,
NPR,
18 Mar. 2025
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The final mission required the contestants to answer riddles to find the location of bags of gold in the woods.—
Dana Rose Falcone,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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For a premise rooted in the world of conundrums, its answers rely far too heavily on ol’ dumb luck.—
Jon O'Brien,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2025
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Music does nothing to reconcile any of its conundrums.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
18 Mar. 2025
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“Brainteaser.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/brainteaser. Accessed 5 Apr. 2025.
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