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Doublets, a Word-Puzzle, by Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson

Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was also a prolific writer of puzzles and games. In Doublets, he presents a series of word-puzzles that challenge readers to transform one word into another by changing a single letter at a time. Deceptively simple yet surprisingly chall...

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Behind the Bastards

The book contains examples of doublet word puzzles, which involve transforming one word into another of equal length, changing a single letter at a time using as few moves as possible.

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In Charles Dobson's or Lewis Carroll's 1880 book, Doublets, a Word Puzzle, there are examples of this, where he says to quote, drive pig into stye, raise four to five, make wheat into bread.

— Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 139

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 139

The book contains examples of doublet word puzzles, which involve transforming one word into another of equal length, changing a single letter at a time using as few moves as possible.

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In Charles Dobson's or Lewis Carroll's 1880 book, Doublets, a Word Puzzle, there are examples of this, where he says to quote, drive pig into stye, raise four to five, make wheat into bread.

Episode: It Could Happen Here Weekly 139

Charles Doxon, better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, published a book called Doublets, A Word Puzzle, where he provided examples of a word puzzle that transformed one word into another by changing a single letter at a time.

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In Charles Doxon's or Lewis Carroll's 1880 book Doublets, A Word Puzzle, there are examples of this, where he says to quote drive pig into stye, raise four to five, make wheat into bread.

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