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Dooble donkeys1/2/2023 ![]() ![]() Called "The Dead Dog Puzzle" the objective was to draw 2 lines which make the dogs seem to be alive, instead of lying on the ground. In the 1857 version of the book The Magician's Own Book or the Whole Art of Conjuring there appears a picture of two dogs lying on the ground facing opposite sides. The third part of the card are the riders, and the objective of the puzzle is to arrange the three pieces (the two donkeys and the riders) so the riders are mounting the donkeys. The printed card of the puzzle shows two donkeys, the central part of which has been left blank on purpose. Today The Sam Loyd Company owns the rights to the puzzle and released a commemorative puzzle card in 2016, 145 years after it was first published. Later on, and after Loyd had offered the puzzle to other firms, it was renamed again to "Famous Trick Donkeys", which sold more than 100,000,000 copies. Barnum saw the opportunity to promote his show on this puzzle card and offered ten thousand dollars to Sam Loyd to change the name of the puzzle to "P.T. In 1871 after he had published The Wonderful Chinese Pony Puzzle, Sam decided to publish his mules puzzle renaming it the "Puzzle of the Trick Mules". Dividing the card into three pieces the player had to place the cards in a way that each mule had one rider on. In 1858, Sam Loyd says he thought of a puzzle card that consisted on two mules and two riders. ![]() The latter acquired it in 1912 and exhibited it in Paris. (It was purchased by the museum in 1914 from Victor Goloubew. ![]() 14.629 in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.)Īccording to Martin Gardner, the puzzle may have been inspired by a 17th century Persian design, currently in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Ink on paper from the Safavid period, early 17th century. ![]()
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