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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. Barnum's Trick Mules" [7] 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. [8]
A final two chapters provide brief hints and more detailed solutions to the puzzles, [2] with the solutions forming the majority of pages of the book. [3] Some of the puzzles are well known classics, some are variations of known puzzles making them more algorithmic, and some are new. [4] They include:
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