Lewis Carroll (whose real name was Charles Dodgson), the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is considered the inventor of this sort of puzzle (he called it a “Doublet” rather than a Word Ladder), and he even wrote a little book about it, which you can find here. It sounds kind of confusing, but an example will probably make things clear, so, here’s a Word Ladder where we start with “cold” and turn it into “warm”: COLD CORD CARD WARD WARM In a Word Ladder, you start with two words (your starting word and your ending word), and then–changing only one letter at a time to create a new word–you work your way from your starting word toward your ending word. Here are a few entertaining anagrams:Īnother type of puzzle Elizabeth and her friend Freddy Knox enjoy is known as a Word Ladder. An anagram is where you take a word or phrase, and then you rearrange the letters to form another word or phrase, like this: “astronomers” can be turned into “moon starers,” or “stormy weather” can become “may throw trees.” A few years ago I realized my last name, Guterson, can be turned into the word “sturgeon.” If you want to learn more about anagrams, go here and if you want to create your own anagrams, go herefor a very fascinating anagram-generating website. Elizabeth Somers–the main character in the Winterhouse books–loves puzzles and codes, and there are a lot of them in Winterhouse and The Secrets of Winterhouse.Īnagrams are Elizabeth’s particular favorite.
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