English
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Alternative spellings
meta-puzzle
Etymology
meta- (in the transcending, transforming and self-referential senses) + puzzle
Noun
en-noun
- A metapuzzle is a puzzle that combines other puzzles to create a compound puzzle. In contrast to a regular puzzle, a metapuzzle is missing data that is essential to solving it, and which can only be obtained by solving other sometimes entirely unrelated puzzles. Metapuzzles are frequently used in puzzlehunt|puzzlehunts.
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