Forty-two perplexing puzzles by creator of "Alice in Wonderland" Cakes in a Row, Looking-Glass Time, Arithmetical Croquet, Diverse Doublets, and others. Hints, solutions. Illustrations by John Tenniel.

Introduction
1. Cakes in a Row
2. More Cakes in a Row
3. On the Top of a High Wall
4. A Sticky Problem
5. Two Brothers and a Box
6. Wise Eyes
7. Alice's Multiplication Tables
8. Magic Postal Square
9. Who's Telling the Truth?
10. Lanrick
11. Russian Family
12. Fair Shares
13. A Mysterious Number
14. Looking-Glass Time
15. Painting Cubes
16. Going Out
17. Four Brothers and a Monkey
18. Two Clocks
19. Sitting in a Circle
20. Bags of Counters
21. Going Round in Circles
22. Hidden Names
23. Another Hidden Name
24. Well-Hidden Names
25. Handicaps
26. "The Fox, the Goose and the Bag of Corn"
27. The Thirty-Letter Game
28. The Square Window
29. The Three Squares
30. Doublets
31. Diverse Doublets
32. Mischmasch
33. Court Circular
34. A Riddle
35. An Amazing Maze
36. A Convenient Number
37. The Alphabet Cipher
38. Arithmetical Croquet
39. An Enigma
40. Square Numbers
41. Carrollian Cross Reference
42. The Number Forty-Two

Lewis Carroll (1832-98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.