Definition

1. Noun:
   • Word puzzle, riddle: A game or challenge that involves words, letters, or language, requiring clever thinking to solve. It often includes puzzles like crosswords, anagrams, or riddles based on wordplay.
   • Rebus: A specific type of puzzle where pictures, letters, or symbols are used to represent words or parts of words.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Trong giờ giải lao, chúng tôi thường chơi đố chữ. (During break time, we often play word puzzles.)
  • Đố chữ này rất khó, tôi chưa tìm ra đáp án. (This word puzzle is very difficult; I haven't found the answer yet.)
  • Anh ấy rất giỏi các loại đố chữ như ô chữ và đảo chữ. (He is very good at word puzzles like crosswords and anagrams.)

Advanced Usage

• "câu đố chữ": A phrase meaning "word riddle" or "verbal puzzle," often used for more traditional, spoken riddles.
  • Ông nội thường kể cho tôi nghe những câu đố chữ dân gian. (My grandfather often tells me folk word riddles.)

Variants and Related Words

• Câu đố (n): Riddle, puzzle. A broader term that can include non-verbal puzzles.
• Ô chữ (n): Crossword puzzle. A specific, common type of word puzzle.
• Trò chơi chữ (n): Wordplay, pun. Focuses on the humorous use of words.

Synonyms

• Trò chơi trí tuệ: Intellectual game (broader, includes logic puzzles).
• Câu đố mẹo: Tricky riddle.

Related Phrases

• Ra đố chữ: To pose/propose a word puzzle.
  • Giáo viên ra đố chữ để học sinh suy nghĩ. (The teacher poses a word puzzle for the students to think about.)
• Giải đố chữ: To solve a word puzzle.
  • Cô ấy chỉ mất năm phút để giải đố chữ đó. (It took her only five minutes to solve that word puzzle.)

Related Idioms

• "Đố chữ đố nghĩa": A rhyming phrase emphasizing the puzzling of both words and meanings, used to describe something very cryptic or challenging to understand.
  • Bài thơ này đố chữ đố nghĩa quá, tôi không hiểu. (This poem is too cryptic with its words and meanings; I don't understand it.)

1. Word-puzzle