brain teaser
Stumper for thinkers
A brain teaser is a puzzle or problem designed to challenge thinking, often requiring creative or lateral reasoning rather than straightforward logic.
Brain teasers appear in job interviews, classrooms, and casual conversation as tests of mental agility: The interviewer asked a brain teaser about manhole covers.
Also spelled brainteaser.
- SudokuLogic grid puzzle
- number gamePuzzle involving digits and logic
- Rubik's CubeRotating color-matching puzzle
- anagramsLetter-rearranged word formations
- conundrumPerplexing problem or question
paradoxes · trick question · acrostics · palindromes · crossword · word game · cryptograms · mazes · stumper · enigma · wordplay · puzzle · riddle · logic puzzle · rebus · lateral thinking · outside the box · thinking cap
- riddlesriddles, riddle, conundrums, conundrum, enigmas
- word puzzlesanagram, crossword, word search, word ladder, word scramble
- educational gamestrivia game, word game, spelling game, puzzle game, memory game
- gamesboard games, card games, board game, card game, video games
- pastimeshobbies, amusement, puzzles, cards, crafting
- puzzlespuzzles, sudoku, jigsaw puzzle, puzzle cube, crossword
cognitive difficulty
brain teaserno-brainer
Self-evident decision
child's play · piece of cake · gimme · busywork · walk in the park