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Narrator: Today's word is "Puzzle" — noun, pronounced /ˈpʌzl/, with the stress on "puz".
Narrator: A puzzle is a game or problem designed to test skill or intelligence, or something hard to understand.
Narrator: In plain English, it is a brain teaser or a mystery.
Narrator: Its origin is uncertain, first appearing in the late sixteenth century.
Narrator: A common collocation is "jigsaw puzzle", which describes pieces fitting into a picture.
Narrator: It differs from "riddle", because a riddle is a question, while a puzzle can be any challenge.
Narrator: In a second sense, to puzzle someone is to confuse them.
Narrator: Games, education, science and detective work all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a puzzle waits to be solved.
Speaker A: What are you doing on the table?
Speaker B: A thousand-piece PUZZLE! Its origin is a puzzle itself.
Speaker A: Is that the sky section?
Speaker B: All blue, the hardest part.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She does the crossword puzzle daily", a habit. "His absence is a puzzle", a mystery. "I was puzzled by the email", a confused reaction.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with double "z", and say "puzzled by", not "puzzled of".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Riddle is its cousin, enigma its twin, and conundrum an alternative — yet puzzle keeps its clever charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "puzzle" in AI prompts — useful for games and debugging.
Speaker A: How for games?
Speaker B: Generate levels.
Prompt: Create five logic puzzles of increasing difficulty with solutions.
Speaker A: And debugging?
Speaker B: Solve mysteries.
Prompt: Help me solve the puzzle of why this test passes locally but fails in CI.
Speaker A: Could it help teaching?
Speaker B: Yes, for vocabulary.
Prompt: Make a crossword puzzle using ten words from this reading passage.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: A daily brain app.
Prompt: Write a short daily puzzle with a hint and a hidden answer.
Puzzle — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary