Chinese puzzle

Gold called the sequences "the heart of the Chinese puzzle".

There was an iron cube, some sort of a Chinese puzzle.

Reconstruction was like Chinese puzzle with directions how to open it inside.

Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together.

"It's a damned Chinese puzzle if ever there was one.

Trying to get inside her head was a big adventure, a complex Chinese puzzle that occupied my mind and time.

They gave him a Chinese puzzle and told him to take it apart.

We've got plenty to do besides trying to solve Chinese puzzles."

The pedestal was like a Chinese puzzle box, dependent upon a secret catch.

It's times like these that a Chinese puzzle or a brain-teaser becomes an absolute must.

So to Sean, she represented this kind of Chinese puzzle he wanted to take apart.

I was about to give up, then thought, Maybe it works in several successive directions, like a Chinese puzzle box.

One of our favorite activities is what I call the "chinese puzzle" bondage.

He smiles at the jury as if he has given them the opening moves of a Chinese puzzle.

Naturally things cannot in reality fit together the way the evidence does in my letter; life is more than a Chinese puzzle.

He saw how neatly the paneling fitted, much like the designed squares of a Chinese puzzle.

It was a Chinese puzzle, you see.

Wife o' mine, you're a real Chinese puzzle sometimes."

It took The Shadow three minutes to solve this Chinese puzzle.

This was like a Chinese puzzle, he thought, where you figured out how to open a series of nested boxes one by one.

At first, it was simply called "The Chinese Puzzle."

His baleen was yellowed and corrupt, honeycombed like a Chinese puzzle.

The Oppenheimer empire has been called a "Chinese puzzle" of majority and minority holdings.

They like fitting together intricate Chinese puzzles.

"But pretty quick, when that leg looks a little less like a Chinese puzzle, you and nursie go bye-bye."