Puzzler

Origin

puzzle + -er

Full definition of puzzler

Noun

1. A puzzling situation or problem; an enigma.
2. (video games) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve.
3. One who solves puzzles as a hobby.
• 1927, Frederic Gregory Hartswick, Read the Pictures (page v)... he commits what to a hardened puzzler seems an unforgivable sin when he uses a picture of a two-masted ship followed by HTER for the word BRIGHTER.