Logistica Fantastica - Sotto Sopra

Italy 1998, brand Unicopli, material paper, cm 14x11x1,5

Logistica Fantastica, sillogismi, Lewis Carroll - Sotto Sopra, un rompicapo semplice e profondo, Alex Randolph

This booklet contains a set of two brainteasers.

The first is "Fantastic Logic" by Lewis Carroll.
Problems of logic fascinated both the writer Lewis Carroll and professor Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who were actually the same person (1832–1898), throughout their lives. The former is the author of "Alice in Wonderland" and other fantasy stories, the latter published numerous mathematical works.
In Carroll's works, logic and reason are constantly denied and challenged, while in Dodgson's writings they are, on the contrary, exalted.
But the two personalities were not entirely disjointed.
In Dodgson's serious logic textbook for college students, "Symbolic Logic" (1896), the examples and 366 exercises present situations so wild they can spark anyone's imagination, while in Carroll's "Tangled Tale," mathematical puzzles are hidden between the lines of absurd stories.
This book illustrates the entertaining and paradoxical use of logic and syllogisms, especially through the creation of paradoxes and the manipulation of logical rules in unexpected ways. The book contains examples of illogical reasoning that Carroll used to entertain, based on unexpected premises and conclusions, such as those found in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The second is "Sotto Sopra" by Alex Randolph.
It's a puzzle included in the 1998/99 Unicopli Giochi Catalog.
It consists of 8 tiles: 3 red, 3 blue, and 2 white, all with the same designs: crossed arrows forming a "+" on one side and an "x" on the other.
The task is to make a series of movements along the arrows to reach a specific configuration.

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