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Conundrum vs Puzzler - What's the difference?

conundrum | puzzler |

As nouns the difference between conundrum and puzzler

is that conundrum is a difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer while puzzler is a situation or problem; an enigma.

conundrum

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
  • * 1816 ,
    • “Why should I understand that, or anything else?” asked the girl. “Don’t bother my head by asking conundrums , I beg of you. Just let me discover myself in my own way.”
  • A difficult choice or decision that must be made.
  • * 2004 , , statement read before being sentenced to five months in prison
    • And while I am more concerned about the well-being of others than for myself, more hurt for them and for their losses than for my own, more worried for their futures than for the future of Martha Stewart the person, you are faced with a conundrum , a problem of monumental, to me, proportions.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "conundrum")

    Synonyms

    * (difficult question) brain-teaser, enigma, puzzle, riddle * (difficult choice) dilemma

    External links

    * (wikipedia "conundrum") * English terms with unknown etymologies

    puzzler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A situation or problem; an enigma.
  • (video games) A video game in which the player is presented with (usually abstract) puzzles to solve.
  • 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.