Synonyms of the word

conundrum

• n. A difficult question or riddle, especially one using a play on words in the answer.
• n. A difficult choice or decision that must be made.

brain-teaser

• n. A complex riddle or puzzle.

enigma

• n. Something or someone puzzling, mysterious or inexplicable.
• n. A riddle, or a difficult problem.

problem

• n. A difficulty that has to be resolved or dealt with.
• n. A question to be answered, schoolwork exercise.
• n. A puzzling circumstance.
• adj. (of a person or an animal) Difficult to train or guide; unruly.
• adj. Causing a problem; problematic; troublesome.

riddle

• n. A verbal puzzle, mystery, or other problem of an intellectual nature.
• n. An ancient verbal, poetic, or literary form, in which, rather than a rhyme scheme, there are parallel…
• v. To speak ambiguously or enigmatically.
• v. (transitive) To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question.
• n. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from…
• n. A board with a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
• v. To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift.
• v. To fill with holes like a riddle.
• v. To fill or spread throughout; to pervade.
• n. (obsolete) A curtain; bed-curtain.
• n. (religious) One of the pair of curtains enclosing an altar on the north and south.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To plait.