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  • noun Plural form of brainteaser.

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Examples

  • But the Nintendo DS – which comes with two screens, including a touch panel – has been a big hit with older people and women with new kinds of games such as brainteasers and virtual pet games.

    New Nintendo Game Gives Beauty Tips | Impact Lab 2007

  • The DS is marketed primarily as a teaching toy, or one to help exercise the mind -- a personal handheld gaming device on which to solve puzzles and brainteasers.

    Apple, Disney, Facebook: Breakaway Brands Offer Simple Pleasures Hayes Roth 2010

  • Last night I ran through all the puzzle challenges in Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers, which were fairly basic, easy-to-solve brainteasers in the mindset of the ones previously published in The Duelist.

    Puzzling Master to the Extreme pabba 2009

  • The novel's overcomplicated conspiracies and esoteric brainteasers can get tedious, and the various religious motivations make little sense.

    The Templar Legacy by Steve Berry: Book summary 2010

  • The interviews, loaded with brainteasers that would challenge Gauss and computer-coding versions of Jeopardy, were only the first stage.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • As usual, the way to end the madness is by solving gentle brainteasers along your travels, triggering new portions of the plot to unfold.

    This week's new games releases 2011

  • The interviews, loaded with brainteasers that would challenge Gauss and computer-coding versions of Jeopardy, were only the first stage.

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • Verdon appears to take a certain fiendish glee in his brainteasers.

    Review of "Think of a Number," a thriller by John Verdon Daniel Stashower 2010

  • The first is that you have to read all the bits of your newspaper every day, not just the first two pages and the brainteasers.

    Acting the pundit Rebecca Front 2010

  • Existential brainteasers have long fascinated California conceptual photographer John Divola, who, like John Baldessari, is known for creating diptychs pairing his images to texts.

    The Short List 2010

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