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Chinese puzzle n
1. (Group Games / Games, other than specified) an intricate puzzle, esp one consisting of boxes within boxes 2. a complicated problem ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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He was dragging along some pointed flat pieces of ice, which he laid together in all possible ways, for he wanted to make something with them; just as we have little flat pieces of wood to make geometrical figures with, called the Chinese Puzzle. replied Michel Ardan, who for his life could not do addition right, and who defined the rule as a Chinese puzzle, which allowed one to obtain all sorts of totals. You wanted to write about the world and the scheme of existence when the world was a Chinese puzzle to you and all that you could have written would have been about what you did not know of the scheme of existence. |
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