Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles

Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling

Courier Corporation, Jan 1, 1995 - Games & Activities - 79 pages

Best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll was also a noted mathematician and puzzlist. Toward the end of his life, he was working on a collection of puzzles, but died before it was completed. Edward Wakeling, a Lewis Carroll scholar and mathematician, drew on that collection to prepare this volume of 42 delightfully diverting mind-benders: A Geometrical Paradox; Castle Croquet; A Sticky but Polished Riddle; Predicting the Total; Pounds, Shillings and Pence; Cats and Rats; Eligible Apartments; A Good Prospect; The Monkey and Weight Problem; Feeding the Cat; A New Way to Pay Old Debts; Crossing the River; Who's Coming to Dinner?; Going to the Theatre; Two Tumblers; Spheres and Dodecahedrons; and 26 more. Enhanced with illustrations by John Tenniel (the original illustrator of Alice) and others, this volume will delight Lewis Carroll fans and puzzlists alike. Solutions are included.

Contents

• Anagrammatic Sonnet: 31
• A Charade: 32
• Fish Riddle: 33
• Cats and Rats: 34
• Syzygies: 35
• Pounds Shillings and Pence: 41
• Three Triangles: 42
• Every Triangle Has a Pair of Equal Sides: 43
• A Good Prospect: 44
• The Telegraph Cipher: 45
• Division by 9 and 11: 47
• Coins: 49
• Bag Containing Tickets: 50
• Going to the Theatre: 51
• Two Tumblers: 52
• Roman Numerals: 53
• Spheres and Dodecahedrons: 54
• Predicting the Total: 55
• The Impossible Hole: 56
• Excelsior: 57
• Eligible Apartments: 58
• Whos Coming to Dinner?: 59
• Memoria Technica: 60
• The Solutions to the Puzzles: 63
• Why Is a Raven Like a WritingDesk?: 64
• The Captive Queen: 65
• A New Way to Pay Old Debts: 66
• More Doublets: 67
• Anagrams: 68
• Anagrammatic Sonnet: 69
• Cats and Rats: 70
• Syzygies: 71
• Three Triangles: 72

About the author

Lewis Carroll (1832–98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rediscovered Lewis Carroll Puzzles; Dover Recreational Math
• Authors: Lewis Carroll, Edward Wakeling
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Courier Corporation, 1995
• ISBN: 0486288617, 9780486288611
• Length: 79 pages
• Subjects: Games & Activities / Puzzles; Juvenile Nonfiction / Games & Activities / Puzzles