CHESMAYNE

PUZZLE Puzzles link
01
To ponder or study over some
perplexing problem or matter. Puzzle,
riddle, enigma refer to something baffling or confusing, which is to be
solved. A puzzle is a question or
problem, intricate enough to be perplexing to the mind. It is sometimes a contrivance made purposely
perplexing to test your ingenuity.
02
A riddle is an intentionally
obscure statement or question, the meaning of or answer to which is to be
arrived at only by guessing: the riddle of the Sphinx.
03
Enigma refers to some
baffling problem with connotations of mysteriousness. Puzzle suggests mental embarrassment amid a
complexity of possible decisions. “I
cannot forecast to you the action of Russia.
It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” (Churchill,
1939). “Once to every man and nation
comes the moment to decide”.
04
‘Bewilder’
suggests complete bafflement, the mind being lost in a multiplicity of
considerations and alternatives.
05
‘Perplex’ suggests such an
entanglement of your judgment that you are uncertain as to what to think or how
to act.
06
Mad Hatter’s riddle: the
riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all. Arabic: ‘Mikhariq’.
07
See ‘Rubik’ cube.
08
Quisquous: perplexing,
puzzling.