puzzlery
nounEtymology From puzzle + -ry.
1
Something that contains puzzles;
- Want to try to unravel this bid of Talmud puzzlery yourself?2004, Aaron Parry, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Talmud:
- Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.2011, John Harding, Florence and Giles, page 6:
2
The process of solving puzzles.
- The rules of this game are of course a little more complicated than those of jigsaw puzzlery.1964, Noel Victor Riggs, Studies on Some Australian Natural Products, page 3:
- Personally, I enjoy the challenge of this jig-saw puzzlery but oh, how I long for a few neat clerihews of four or five lines, some vivid haikus with their seventeen syllables, or a tiny one verse gem.1976, Two Tone, page 6:
1 more example
- I trust that the company manufacturing this particular brand of cigarettes — the last successful holdover from the Arabian Nights names of many of the earlier American brands, such as "Fatima," etc. — will not disagree that most of the 'blue' gags in impromptu magic and puzzlery that concern cigarettes center around the “Camel” brand.2007, G. Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor, page 150: