The Hunting of the Snark Wonderland", and mentions of "candle-ends" and "toasted cheese" with his supernatural poem "Phantasmagoria". Additionally all three works include the number "42". Another of Carroll's children's novels, "Sylvie and Bruno Concluded" (1893) makes a reference to the Boojum. Other illustrators of "The Hunting of the Snark" include Peter Newell (1903), Edward A. Wilson (1932), Mervyn Peake (1941), Aldren Watson (1952), Tove Jansson (1959), Helen Oxenbury (1970), Byron Sewell (1974), John Minnion (1974), Harold Jones (1975), Ralph Steadman (1975), Quentin Blake (1976), Frank Hinder (1989) and Brian Puttock (1997). "The Hunting of the Snark" has seen various adaptations into musicals, opera, theatre,
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