How to Use brainteaser in a Sentence

brainteaser

noun

• That’s not meant as a brainteaser.
  — Dan Duggan, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• Find some fun brainteaser games to help keep young minds active.
  — Parents, 11 June 2026
• And as tricky as this puzzle is, plenty of brainteaser fans are loving the challenge.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 8 Dec. 2020
• From mess-free art projects to brainteasers to travel building sets, your kids will be forgetting all about their tablets.
  — Anja Webb, Parents, 25 Feb. 2026
• The brainteasers are intended to both calm the players' minds and encourage them to think ahead.
  — Jori Epstein, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2019
• Guys can be disastrously tough to shop for, but the best gift ideas for men don’t have to involve a brainteaser.
  — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 23 Mar. 2026
• 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
• At least the old brainteaser, the one where one guard always lies and the other always tells the truth, is a solvable problem.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
• Litt’s online project doesn’t just highlight the enduring allure of brainteasers.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024
• The popular game show has been on air for 39 seasons with guild writers penning the tricky brainteasers.
  — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 26 July 2023
• Ace Sheds' brainteaser has taken some people over 5 minutes to solve.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 28 Oct. 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
• In contrast, 60 percent of the subjects distracted by brainteasers got it right.
  — Laura Kutsch, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2019
• Players must categorize the terms into four groups of four, though there is no time limit to complete the brainteaser.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Feb. 2025
• 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
• 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
• What this argument reflects, in part, is one of the brainteasers of nuclear theology.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• Today's brainteaser is difficult, with all of the words starting with the same letter, so there's no need to stress if this one's proving too tough to tackle.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 22 Mar. 2025
• Chess and other games and brainteasers in general are typically prescribed to help stave off dementia.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Sep. 2018
• In this fun, colorful brainteaser, one of the Nutcrackers is missing his mustache.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 18 Dec. 2020
• The immersive brainteaser within is playful, filled with subtle hints and special effects.
  — Samantha Melamed, Philly.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Just give the brainteaser another look and consider focusing on the bottom right quadrant.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 23 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
• 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
• Despite its struggles, the AI chatbot made one key logical breakthrough during the brainteasers.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 25 May 2023
• 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
• This holiday puzzle zeroes in on that and transforms classic Champagne flutes into a tricky brainteaser.
  — Christy Piña, Woman's Day, 29 Dec. 2020
• Each team was given an envelope containing twelve brainteasers—rebuses, letter grids—that could be solved in any order, leading to sites around the theatre.
  — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2025
• The daily brainteaser features 16 seemingly random words grouped together in a box.
  — Kevin Sabet, Newsweek, 24 Mar. 2025