puzzlery

English

Etymology

puzzle +‎ -ry

Noun

puzzlery (uncountable)

1. Something that contains puzzles;
   • 2004, Aaron Parry, The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Talmud:

     Want to try to unravel this bid of Talmud puzzlery yourself?

   • 2011, John Harding, Florence and Giles, page 6:

     Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.

2. The process of solving puzzles.
   • 1964, Noel Victor Riggs, Studies on Some Australian Natural Products, page 3:

     The rules of this game are of course a little more complicated than those of jigsaw puzzlery.

   • 1976, Two Tone, page 6:

     Personally, I enjoy the challenge of this jig-saw puzzlery but oh, how I long for a few neat clerihews of four or five lines, some vivid haikus with their seventeen syllables, or a tiny one verse gem.

   • 2007, G. Legman, Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor, page 150:

     I trust that the company manufacturing this particular brand of cigarettes — the last successful holdover from the Arabian Nights names of many of the earlier American brands, such as "Fatima," etc. — will not disagree that most of the 'blue' gags in impromptu magic and puzzlery that concern cigarettes center around the “Camel” brand.