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Famous Trick Donkeys
Famous Trick Donkeys is a puzzle invented by Sam Loyd in 1858,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/T/Trick_Donkeys.html )〕 first printed on a card supposed to promote P.T. Barnum’s circus. At that time, the puzzle was first called “P.T. Barnum’s trick mules”〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://divisbyzero.com/2009/06/25/famous-trick-donkeys/ )〕 Millions of cards were sold, with an estimated income for Sam Loyd of $10,000 from 1871〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/000452.html )〕 about $200,000 in 2014 dollars.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.davemanuel.com/inflation-calculator.php )〕
==History==
In 1858 Sam Loyd thought of a puzzle card that consisted on two mules and two riders. Dividing the card into three pieces the player had to place the cards in a way that each mule had one rider on. 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”.
P. T. 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. Barman’s Trick Mules”〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://britton.disted.camosun.bc.ca/crackerjack/cbpuzzle.html )〕
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. Today The Sam Loyd Company owns the rights to the puzzle and will release a commemorative puzzle card in 2016, 145 years after it was first published.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.samloyd.com/145-mules.html )〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
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