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Subj:.....Alice
In Wonderland (S630)
From the book
"Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd"
Edited by Martin Gardner
From: Dover Publications in 1959
How
many different ways can you spell
"Was
it a cat I saw?"
We call attention
to Alice's remarkable experiences with the
Cheshire cat, which
had a way of vanishing into thin air
until nothing but
its irrestible smile remained. When Alice
first saw her feline
friend she wanted to know what species
of animal it was,
and since they always ask questions in Won-
derland by writing,
she wrote out her query. But because they
generally read things
backward or up and down in Wonderland,
she wrote it as shown
in the puzzle. This permits the reader
to commence and end
where they please, just as they should in
Wonderland.
The problem is this.
In how many different ways can you read
Alice's question,
"Was it a cat I saw?" Start at any of the
W's, spell by moving
to adjacent letters until you reach the
C, then spell back
out to the boarder again. You may move
up and down, left
and right. |
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