Weird Game from 1965...

I love old games that I discover at thrift stores. They are slices of how life used to be. I am completely perplexed by WFF: The Beginner's Game of Modern Logic by Layman E. Allen.

Mr. Allen, a game designer and University of Michigan Law School professor, was a pioneer in the using mathematics as a logic tool. His interest in teaching mathematical logic to lawyers led to the development of games about math and logic.
His game taught children, as young as six, how to combine symbols into grammatically correct logical statements called well-formed formulae (WFFs) developed under a grant from the Carnegie Corporation for ALL (Accelerated Learning of Logic). Wow.
The set includes twelve wooden cubes, six with lowercase letters and six with uppercase letters, that are used by the players to form WFFs. The lowercase letters represent sentence variables in logic the same way that letters represent number variables in algebra. Uppercase letters represent symbols that allow one to form logical sentences in the same way that the symbols for the four arithmetical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division) are used to form algebraic expressions. My eyes are glazing over... so confused. Did you read that sentence stating, "For children as young as six"?

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