An enigma is a puzzle, or something mysterious and difficult to explain. People often use the term to imply that the puzzle or problem is intellectual in nature, requiring the full force of someone's deductive ability to solve it. The term was borrowed as a name for a coding machine used in the Second World War; the Enigma machine relied on a complex series of steps and devices...
What Is an Enigma?
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