Games, Puzzles, & Related Pieces

Lewis Carroll

Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 2015 - Games & Activities - 406 pages

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, "Lewis Carroll," was not only the author of the beloved Alice tales but an inveterate and talented creator of puzzles and games in both the recreational mathematics and wordplay fields. Collected together for the first time in this book, his charming and humorous creations are no longer hidden in obscure Victorian magazines, rare antiquarian books, and sporadic, incomplete collections.

This fully annotated volume features such delights as Carroll's word games Doublets (word ladders) and Syzygies (a more elaborate form of the word ladder), a board game called Lanrick, and other games and puzzles, including Circular Billiards, Castle Croquet, String Wrapped Round a Cube, Backgammon variations, Mirror Writing, Arithmetical Croquet, a Number Guessing Puzzle, and much more. The volume has been edited, annotated, and compiled by Christopher Morgan, who has added a section on modern-day puzzles inspired by Carroll, and features an introduction by Jeremiah Farrell. This is a fascinating and delightful collection for lovers of wordplay, puzzles, and the wit of Lewis Carroll.

Distributed for the Lewis Carroll Society of North America

About the author

Charles Luthwidge Dodgson was born in Daresbury, England on January 27, 1832. He became a minister of the Church of England and a lecturer in mathematics at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was the author, under his own name, of An Elementary Treatise on Determinants, Symbolic Logic, and other scholarly treatises. He is better known by his pen name of Lewis Carroll. Using this name, he wrote Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. He was also a pioneering photographer, and he took many pictures of young children, especially girls, with whom he seemed to empathize. He died on January 14, 1898.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Games, Puzzles, & Related Pieces; Volume 5 of Pamphlets of Lewis Carroll, Lewis Carroll
• Author: Lewis Carroll
• Editor: Christopher Patrick Morgan
• Compiled by: Christopher Patrick Morgan
• Edition: illustrated, annotated
• Publisher: Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 2015
• ISBN: 0930326024, 9780930326029
• Length: 406 pages
• Subjects: Games & Activities / General; Games & Activities / Puzzles; Games & Activities / Word & Word Search; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / General