brain-teaser

brain-teaser

A puzzle or riddle that is challenging to solve. Boy, that's a real brain-teaser—anyone got any ideas for what it could mean?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

brain-teaser

verb
See brain-twister
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • on one's
  • on someone's
  • out of one's
  • (I've) got to go
  • #dead
  • a lulu
  • save someone's skin
  • (Have you) been OK?
  • other than
  • other than (something)
References in periodicals archive
IMPRESSIVE J Horn features incredibly detailed environments complete with strange creatures BAMBOOZLE J The Curse is a real brain-teaser that will have you in a muddle in no time at all
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The Redsused to be regular participants in the traditional curtain-raiser to the football season but this will be only the fourth time this century so to mark the occasion, we've delved into the archive to find some brain-teasers on Liverpool's history in the competition, going right back to when it used to be called the Charity Shield!
The big Liverpool in the Community Shield quiz - how much can you remember from the Reds previous matches? Liverpool used to be regular participants in the traditional curtain-raiser to the football season but this will be only the fourth time this century; Liverpool used to be regular participants in the traditional curtain-raiser to the football season but this will be only the fourth time this century
But mostly I just enjoyed trying to solve the brain-teasers without having a family bust-up.
TALK about tension. There []
Thursday Thought helps us think more about lots of life's big questions, riddles and brain-teasers. Word of the Week helps us broaden our vocabulary and encourages us to write more successfully.
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SHE Remembered Caterpillars is a wilfully enigmatic puzzle game, that paints an odd mythology over a colourful world of writhing bridges and organic brain-teasers.
SHE REMBERED CATERPILLARS
In the first part of the event, they learnt about code writing, had to generate animated figures and solve brain-teasers. In the second part, they put their knowledge to goo use by applying their knowhow into games and trials in an attempt to programme a real robot.
ROBOTICS: 50 students challenge hack{cyprus} Code School
His brain-teasers tonight are on the theme of crime.
WE LOVE ENTERTAINMENT
Some of the mind games include: name certain defined words beginning with the letter A, identify six sounds recorded in a gym, mentally fold/cut/unfold a piece of paper, and many more brain-teasers grounded in language, geography, math, and logic.
Audacious Audiopuzzles Book #1
Insurmountable Simplicities: Thirty-Nine Philosophical Conundrums presents a veritable smorgasbord of philosophical brain-teasers to be pondered at length by novice and veteran thinkers alike.
Insurmountable Simplicities
Reproducible activities can be used with youngsters as class openers, problems of the day, challenges, contests, brain-teasers, or supplements to content being studied.
Middle School Math Challenge
Crosswords fan Brian Nuggert, of Sydney, has finally completed one of the brain-teasers - after 40 YEARS.
CRAZY WORLD; An oddball look at Planet Earth
Byron's works linger like complicated, multitextured brain-teasers. Close in spirit to the light bulb drawn over a cartoon-figure's head, the candle-busts turn the Enlightenment's belief in subject-centered reason into a visual pun.
Michael Byron
Though crossword puzzles are the primary feature, a medley of other brain-teasers round out Mad Tausig vs The Interplanetary Puzzling Peace Patrol.
Mad Tausig vs The Interplanetary Puzzling Peace Patrol
BRAIN-TEASERS will be set at a Nuneaton hotel this weekend to help raise funds for the town's Mary Ann Evans Hospice.
Questions will aid hospice