Home › Words › P › puzzlemasterpuzzlemasterpuzzlemaster means someone who designs or creates puzzles.EtymologyFrom puzzle + master.nounSomeone who designs or creates puzzles.e.g.“A few puzzles come from Sam Loyd, the famous nineteenth-century American puzzlemaster.” — 2005, Clifford A[lan] Pickover, A Passion for Mathematics: Numbers, Puzzles, Madness, Religion, and the Quest for Reality, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 7:Someone exceptionally skilled at solving puzzles.e.g.“After eight months the musical 3-year-olds were expert puzzlemasters, scoring 80 percent higher than their playmates did in spatial intelligence -- the ability to visualize the world accurately.” — 1996 February 18, “Why Do Schools Flunk Biology?”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2022:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.enigmatologist 71% match — A person who creates or studies puzzles. vs puzzlemaster →enigmatographer 71% match — A person who makes or solves puzzles. vs puzzlemaster →cruciverbalist 65% match — A person who constructs or solves crosswords. vs puzzlemaster →puzzler 63% match — A puzzling situation or problem. vs puzzlemaster →crossworder 60% match — A person who solves crossword puzzles. vs puzzlemaster →empuzzle 60% match — To puzzle. vs puzzlemaster →cryptogrammist 59% match — A person who creates or solves cryptograms. vs puzzlemaster →ludophile 58% match — A person who loves games and puzzles. vs puzzlemaster →