Confuse vs. Puzzle — What's the Difference?

Make (someone) bewildered or perplexed

A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together in a logical way, in order to arrive at the correct or fun solution of the puzzle.

To cause to be unable to think with clarity or act with intelligence or understanding; bewilder or perplex.

Something, such as a game, toy, or problem, that requires ingenuity and often persistence in solving or assembling.

(Archaic) To cause to feel embarrassment.

Something that baffles or confuses; an enigma

To fail to differentiate (one person or thing) from another

The condition of being perplexed; bewilderment

To make more complex or difficult to understand

To baffle or confuse mentally by presenting or being a difficult problem or matter.

To make something unclear or incomprehensible

To clarify or solve (something confusing) by reasoning or study

(transitive) to puzzle, perplex, baffle, bewilder somebody; to afflict by being complicated, contradictory, or otherwise difficult to understand

To be perplexed.

(transitive) To mix up, muddle up one thing with another; to mistake one thing for another.

To ponder over a problem in an effort to solve or understand it.

(transitive) To mix thoroughly; to confound; to disorder.

Anything that is difficult to understand or make sense of.

To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.

A game for one or more people that is more or less difficult to work out or complete.

To rout; discomfit.

A crossword puzzle.

(intransitive) To be confused.

A jigsaw puzzle.

Mixed; confounded.

A riddle.

To mix or blend so that things can not be distinguished; to jumble together; to confound; to render indistinct or obscure; as, to confuse accounts; to confuse one's vision.

(archaic) Something made with marvellous skill; something of ingenious construction.

To perplex; to disconcert; to abash; to cause to lose self-possession.

The state of being puzzled; perplexity.

Mistake one thing for another;

(transitive) To perplex, confuse, or mystify; to cause (someone) to be faced with a mystery, without answers or an explanation.

Be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;

(intransitive) To think long and carefully, in bewilderment.

Cause to feel embarrassment;

(transitive) To make intricate; to entangle.

Assemble without order or sense;

Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making.

Make unclear or incomprehensible;

The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.

Make unclear, indistinct, or blurred;

To perplex; to confuse; to embarrass; to put to a stand; to nonplus.

To make intricate; to entangle.

To solve by ingenuity, as a puzzle; - followed by out; as, to puzzle out a mystery.

To be bewildered, or perplexed.

To work, as at a puzzle; as, to puzzle over a problem.

A particularly baffling problem that is said to have a correct solution;

A toy that tests your ingenuity

Be a mystery or bewildering to;

Be uncertain about; think about without fully understanding or being able to decide;