Nerd Snipe
Verb · Noun · Slang & Abbreviations · Origin: 2007
Definitions
To present a technically interesting problem that is so compelling that the target becomes completely absorbed in solving it, abandoning whatever they were supposed to be doing. Coined by Randall Munroe in xkcd.
In plain English: Distracting a tech person by giving them an interesting puzzle — they can't help but drop everything to try to solve it.