What type of puzzle did Lewis Carroll create?
Word ladder
Crossword
Sudoku
Jigsaw
Answer
Lewis Carroll created the word ladder puzzle, which he called "Doublets." He published these puzzles in his weekly column for Vanity Fair magazine between 1879 and 1881. In a word ladder puzzle, players must transform one word into another by changing a single letter at a time, creating a chain of valid words.
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