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Word ladder (also known as Doublets,〔 word-links, or Word golf) is a word game invented by Lewis Carroll. A word ladder puzzle begins with two words, and to solve the puzzle one must find a chain of other words to link the two, in which two adjacent words (that is, words in successive steps) differ by one letter.
==History==
Lewis Carroll says that he invented the game on Christmas day in 1877.〔 The first mention of the game in Carroll's diary was on March 12, 1878, which he originally called "Word-links", and described as a two-player game.〔 Carroll published a series of word ladder puzzles and solutions, which he then called "Doublets", in the magazine ''Vanity Fair'', beginning with the March 29, 1879 issue.〔 Later that year it was made into a book, published by Macmillan and Co.
J. E. Surrick and L. M. Conant published a book ''Laddergrams'' of such puzzles in 1927.〔
Vladimir Nabokov alluded to the game using the name "word golf" in the novel ''Pale Fire'', in which the narrator says 'some of my records are: hate—love in three, lass—male in four, and live—dead in five (with "lend" in the middle).'〔Augarde, Tony ''Oxford Guide to Word Games'' Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2003 p.216 ISBN 0-19-866264-5〕
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