English-Finnish translations for puzzle

• arvoitus
  Tämä on minulle suuri arvoitus. I regard this as a great puzzle.
  Olisimme varsinainen arvoitus niin natsitutkijoille kuin etnisen kartoituksen taulukoille, joita jäsen Ludford kiitteli viikkoja sitten toisessa mietinnössä. We would be a real puzzle for a Nazi investigator or for the chart of ethnic origins which Baroness Ludford admired so much a few weeks ago in another report.
• pähkinä
  Tässä sinulle pähkinä purtavaksi.
  Tuo tehtävä onkin pähkinä purtavaksi.
• askarruttaa
  Vaikka suhtaudunkin myönteisesti tutkintavaliokunnan tuntemaan huoleen BSE-kriisin täydestä tutkimuksesta, sen lähestymistapa askarruttaa minua joiltain osin. While I welcome the concern of the Committee of Inquiry to fully investigate the BSE crisis I am puzzled by the approach they have taken in certain regards.
• pulma
• tehtävä

Definition of puzzle

• Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of
• A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete
• A jigsaw puzzle
• Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction
• To perplex (someone
• To think long and carefully, in bewilderment
• To make intricate; to entangle

Synonyms

• anybody's guess
• anyone's guess
• conundrum
• enigma
• mystery
• brain-teaser
• poser
• crossword
• crossword puzzle
• jigsaw
• jigsaw puzzle
• guessing game
• riddle

Examples

• Where he went after he left the house is a puzzle.
• to be in a puzzle
• We puzzled over the curious-shaped lock, but were unable to discover how the key should be inserted.

Related words

• puzzles
• puzzled
• puzzlement
• puzzleheaded
• monkey-puzzle
• puzzle out
• puzzle piece
• puzzle (over)
• jigsaw puzzle