Lewis Carroll's Word Ladder Games

Fri 17 Nov


Lewis Carroll not only wrote the story that inspired our Christmas show Alice In Winterland  but he was a renowned mathematician and inventor of the Word Ladder game, or Doublet.

Rules

The player is given a start word and an end word. They must change the start word, one letter at a time, to create a new word at each step, until they reach the end word.

For example one way of getting from COLD to WARM in four steps may be:

Can you complete these word ladders in the fewest steps possible?

SLEEP to DREAM

FLOUR to BREAD

LASS to MALE

RIVER to SHORE

Join Alice weave her way through puzzles and riddles to save her friends in Alice In Winterland this Christmas from Thu 7 Dec-Sun 7 Jan. For more information click here


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