Playing Around in Lewis Carroll's Alice Books main points

The main points of that article included:

Carroll was obsessed with games.

Both his Alice books use games.

His main focus as a mathematician was geometry.

Games are fun if they follow established rules. (This is why Alice had problems with, for example, the croquet game. It had no actual rules other than that the Queen had to win.)

There is also a lack of rules at the Tea Party when the Mad Hatter asks Alice a riddle that actually has no solution.

The events in Wonderland did not follow established rules themselves. They went from one random even on to another.

Although chess was used in Through the Looking Glass, I read in one article that the set-up at the start of the book assumed some unusual and non-legal moves would have to be made.

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