How to Use brainteaser in a Sentence

brainteaser

noun

• The brainteasers are intended to both calm the players' minds and encourage them to think ahead.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
• And as tricky as this puzzle is, plenty of brainteaser fans are loving the challenge.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 8 Dec. 2020
• For this fun little brainteaser, Dudás hid a baby bear among all of the reindeers crowding Santa in one of the winter forests in the North Pole.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 19 Dec. 2020
• In contrast, 60 percent of the subjects distracted by brainteasers got it right.
  — Laura Kutsch, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
• Some of the riddles might be familiar, others are new but the overlay of the cute villagers offering brainteasers is just the right level of fun.
  — Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2020
• Here are some puzzles and brainteasers to challenge your family and friends with, either in person or over video chat.
  — Nicole Wetsman, Popular Science, 22 May 2020
• And what better way to get your spooky on than indulging in yet another Halloween brainteaser?
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 29 Oct. 2020
• This trippy jigsaw puzzle comes from the mind of master brainteaser Chris Yates, but the true credit goes to an algorithm.
  — Gear Team, Wired, 22 Nov. 2021
• But be warned: solving this holiday brainteaser is far from easy.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 22 Dec. 2020
• The quickest someone's solved the brainteaser, according to a press release, is 45 seconds.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 29 Dec. 2020
• The Leonardo da Vinci-themed, four-room brainteaser comes hand in hand with the palace's da Vinci exhibit that will celebrate the 500th anniversary of the famed artist's death.
  — Elizabeth Gulino, House Beautiful, 1 July 2019
• As early as 1913, planar graphs came up in a brainteaser called the three-utilities problem, published in The Strand Magazine.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• Crosswords and brainteasers, though popular, aren’t enough to replicate the mental challenges our brains undergo at the office.
  — Ken Fisher, USA TODAY, 16 June 2019
• From Halloween puzzles, to Christmas brainteasers, and even Springtime ones, Dudás' seek-and-find puzzle books will satisfy your brainteaser itch day in and day out.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 19 Dec. 2020
• In this fun, colorful brainteaser, one of the Nutcrackers is missing his mustache.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 18 Dec. 2020
• On average, the Christmas brainteaser takes about 1 minute and 3 seconds to solve but has taken some people up to 15 minutes, according to the press release.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 9 Dec. 2020
• When former Treasury secretary and Harvard president Lawrence Summers applied for a job at the firm in 2006, he was required to solve brainteasers.
  — Daniel Golden, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2019
• What this argument reflects, in part, is one of the brainteasers of nuclear theology.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• One set of subjects had four minutes to think about the decision; another set was distracted by solving brainteasers.
  — Laura Kutsch, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
• One of the last ten questions asks test takers to identify the similarity between a train and bicycle, and Trump isn’t so deranged to think that’s a world-class brainteaser.
  — Adam K. Raymond, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Feb. 2018
• Just give the brainteaser another look and consider focusing on the bottom right quadrant.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 23 Dec. 2020
• Chess and other games and brainteasers in general are typically prescribed to help stave off dementia.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2018
• For example, a few of the watches are a different color than the mostly gold ones, intentionally designed to throw brainteaser-lovers off.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 28 Dec. 2020
• This holiday puzzle zeroes in on that and transforms classic Champagne flutes into a tricky brainteaser.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 29 Dec. 2020
• The immersive brainteaser within is playful, filled with subtle hints and special effects.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• According to a press release, the puzzle creator claims that on average, this brainteaser takes people 46 seconds to find the lone Nutcracker without a mustache.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 18 Dec. 2020
• But doing this while generating higher returns and investing in renewables is a brainteaser yet to be solved.
  — Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2019
• Interviewers will also want to see how a candidate solves problems -- but the company no longer relies on those infamous brainteaser questions.
  — Dina Litovsky For Cnn, CNN, 2 Oct. 2019
• Those who were able to spot the solo elf in seconds should seriously consider entering some worldwide brainteaser competition because this puzzle is far from easy.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 4 Dec. 2020

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