Puzzle? Now that’s a real puzzle. Do you mean puzzle as a noun or puzzle as a verb. Can I also use it as an adjective? Like in “that is a puzzling situation?” Oh, I remember from way back seventy years or so, when I studied gerunds. I think it is a gerund there.
There is a man at the senior center who comes three times a week, stays several hours, and puts together 1000 piece puzzles. He is a puzzle to me! He put together a thousand piece puzzle for me one time. I took it apart in quarter sections; I placed each quarter section in a zip lock bag; now I have four 250 piece puzzles. That I can handle. I can do each mini-puzzle then put the four sections together. Have I described this procedure well enough for you to understand or am I leaving you with your mind in a puzzle?
Can a riddle also be called a puzzle? If so, I am leaving you with this puzzle?
“What is always coming but never arrives?” That was a puzzle to me; I could not get the answer. Can you?
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Thanks, Linda, for this word for a prompt, “puzzle” I enjoy being in your community of readers/writers who regularly – or occasionally – drop in for some fun.
This post is part of the Stream of Consciousness Saturday offered by lindaghill at https://lindaghill.com/2021/09/17/the-friday-reminder-and-prompt-for-socs-sept-18-2021/
Sweet aroma 
Tomorrow never arrives though it’s always coming.
You are right. Good thinking. Want another? What word do you always spell wrong? I got that one.
Wtong
From long, long ago I remember two phrases: “riddle me this,” and “puzzle me this.” As I recall, it was a way of introducing a puzzle or riddle, and inviting someone to try to solve it.
Some riddles only work when spoken, of course. One of the first I learned goes like this:
“What’s black and white and red (read) all over?” The answer, of course, was a newspaper!
I remember first hearing that. I think I got it right. Must have. I would not remember the ones I failed! Bad on my ego. It really wouldn’t be a riddle if it were read. Now Siri is the master of knock knock jokes. Knock knock jokes became popular in the thirties – according to googled information, but I did not hear them much until my grandchildren fell in love with them. David, a grandson, loved making them up. He was very good at a lot of stuff, but not making up knock, knock jokes.