释义 |
puzzlist U.S.|ˈpʌzlɪst| [f. puzzle n. + -ist.] One who devises puzzles.
1961Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Feb. 127/1 Readers in this country are unlikely to accept ‘ticktack toe’ for ‘noughts and crosses’ or speak of their favourite composer as a ‘puzzlist’. 1970Sci. Amer. Feb. 112/3 This cryptarithm (or alphametic, as many puzzlists prefer to call them) is an old one of unknown origin. 1971Ibid. Oct. 106/3 Let us combine the rules of the two rival puzzlists by allowing both steps and hops, as in Halma. |