Phantasmagoria (poem) the 1911 collection. 1911 collection of 16 poems, illustrated by Arthur B. Frost. This collection matches the 1883 "Rhyme? and Reason?" in contents and sequence, except that it does not contain "The Hunting of the Snark" (and thus contains no illustrations by Holiday). A copy of the first edition is the source for Project Gutenberg Ebook #651. Phantasmagoria (poem) "Phantasmagoria" is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of a collection of verse by Carroll entitled "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems". The collection was also published under the name "Rhyme? And Reason?" It
Lewis Carroll early version of what today is known as Scrabble. He appears to have invented – or at least certainly popularized – the "doublet" (see word ladder), a form of brain-teaser that is still popular today, changing one word into another by altering one letter at a time, each successive change always resulting in a genuine word. For instance, CAT is transformed into DOG by the following steps: CAT, COT, DOT, DOG. The games and puzzles of Lewis Carroll were the subject of Martin Gardner's March 1960 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American. Other items include a rule for finding the