baffle
BAF-ulverbMeaning to be too hard for someone to understand or solve
Memory hook BAF-FLE: the cookies FLEW out of a locked jar?. The cookie jar is still locked, but every cookie is gone! The mystery baffles Dev and Lila. (The cat isn’t talking.)
The locked-room mystery baffled every detective in the city.
In context The magician’s last trick baffled the audience; though they watched his hands closely, no one could explain how the rabbit ended up in the front row.
Similar puzzle, stump, perplex, confuse
Opposite enlighten, clarify