Collocations for "puzzle"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "puzzle" in context.
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puzzle
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- a jigsaw puzzle
- a [500] -piece puzzle
- a [difficult, children's] puzzle
- a puzzle for [children, babies]
- a puzzle for ages [six] and up
- finished the puzzle's edges
- do the puzzle's edges first
- a [brain, word, logic, crossword, teambuilding] puzzle
- [finish, put together] a puzzle
- am working on a puzzle
- do a puzzle [in the winter, on a rainy day]
- [hate, love] (doing) puzzles
- am great at puzzles
- that is certainly a puzzle
- it is a puzzle as to [how, why, when]
- managed to solve the puzzle
- missing a central piece of the puzzle
- idiom: added another piece to the puzzle
- idiom: all fell into place like a puzzle
- a puzzle piece
- a [missing, central, corner] puzzle piece
- on a puzzle board
- puzzle (video) games
- puzzle over [a problem, the details, a dilemma]
- the [news, story, details] puzzled her
- he was puzzled by the [news]
- puzzle the pieces together
- puzzle together the pieces
- puzzle [the meaning, a way, the message] out
- puzzle out [the meaning]
- a puzzle piece
- a [missing, central, corner] puzzle piece
- on a puzzle board
- puzzle (video) games
'puzzle' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):