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Sam Loyd's donkey puzzle. To solve it, cut out the three rectangles and reassemble the pieces so that the two jockeys are riding the two donkeys. Vectorized version of Image:Sam Loyd's Trick Donkeys.gif {{PD-US}}
Famous Trick Donkeys is a puzzle invented by Sam Loyd in 1858, [1] 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". [2] Millions of cards were sold, with an estimated income for Sam Loyd of $10,000 from 1871 [3] —more than $200,000 in 2023 dollars. [4]
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A picture of a donkey with a missing tail is tacked to a wall within easy reach of children. [2] One at a time, each child is blindfolded and handed a paper "tail" with a push pin or thumbtack poked through it. The blindfolded child is then spun around until disoriented. [2] The child gropes around and tries to pin the tail on the donkey.
Articles relating to the domestic donkey (Equus africanus asinus). It is a hoofed mammal in the family Equidae, the same family as the horse. It derives from the African wild ass, Equus africanus. It was domesticated in Africa some 5000–7000 years ago, and has been used mainly as a working animal since that time.
KneeHi is the shortest living donkey as certified by the Guinness World Records, at 24.29 inches tall measured to the top of the withers. [1] [2] KneeHi is a registered miniature Mediterranean donkey and lives at Best Friends Farm in Gainesville, Florida. He is owned by Jim and Frankie Lee. [3]
So, what exactly is the “donkey route” ? “Donkey flights” or “donkey route” is a term based on the Punjabi word “dunki”, which means to “hop from place to place”.
The word easel is an old Germanic synonym for donkey (compare similar semantics). In various other languages, its equivalent is the only word for both the animal and the apparatus, such as Afrikaans: esel and earlier Dutch: ezel (the easel generally in full Dutch: schildersezel, "painter's donkey"), themselves cognates of the Latin: asinus (ass).