Pin the tail on the donkey - wikipedia Pin the tail on the donkey This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2007 ) An example of the game after it was played. Pin the tail on the donkey is a game played by groups of children. The earliest version listed in a catalog of American games compiled by the American Game Collectors Association in 1998, is dated 1899, and attributed to Charles Zimmerling. It is common at birthday parties and other gatherings. A picture of a donkey with a missing tail is tacked to a wall within easy reach of children. 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 he or she is disoriented. The child gropes around and tries to pin the tail on the donkey. The player who pins their tail closest to the target, the donkey 's rear, wins. The game, a group activity, is generally not competitive ; `` winning '' is only of marginal importance. It is often seen as more entertaining, seeing the children stumble around and try to put their tail at the right place. The game is also used in child development research. The game can also be played by teenagers and adults, especially if the `` donkey '' is replaced with depictions of something or someone else. As a drinking game, the person with the worst tail pinning is awarded one shot of a selected alcohol, to be determined by house rules or the loser in a friendly environment. Idiomatically, the term can be used derisively for any assigned activity which is pointless or for which a person has been handicapped ( blindfolded ). See also Eeyore, a character based on this game Fukuwarai, a similar Japanese game Piñata External links Printable Pin the Tail on the Donkey Game References Jump up ^ http://gamecatalog.org/gc/printed/gc8.pdf The Game Catalog, 8th Edition, October 1998 - Page 89 ^ Jump up to : Joanna Cole ; Stephanie Calmenson ; Alan Tiegreen ( 2004 ). Pin the Tail on the Donkey. Chronicle Books. pp. 8 -- 9. ISBN 1 - 58717 - 230 - 5. ^ Jump up to : Rodney P. Carlisle : Encyclopedia of Play in Today 's Society, Band 2, SAGE, 2009, P. 483 Jump up ^ Kagan, Jerome ; J. Steven Reznick ; Nancy Snidman ; Jane Gibbons ; Maureen O. Johnson ( December 1988 ). `` Childhood Derivatives of Inhibition and Lack of Inhibition to the Unfamiliar ''. Childhood Development. Blackwell Publishing. 59 ( 6 ) : 1580 -- 1589. JSTOR 1130672. doi : 10.2307 / 1130672. Party games Apple bobbing Chinese whispers Hot potato Murder mystery Musical chairs Pin the tail on the donkey Piñata Post Office Seven minutes in heaven Spin the bottle Truth or dare ? Guessing games Button, button, who 's got the button ? Charades Twenty Questions Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pin_the_tail_on_the_donkey&oldid=796336456 '' Categories : Children 's games Entertainment in the United States Party games Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from October 2007 All articles needing additional references All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from May 2008 Articles with unsourced statements from July 2017 Talk About Wikipedia Deutsch Español Nederlands Edit links This page was last edited on 20 August 2017, at 03 : 54. About Wikipedia

Question: when was pin the tail on the donkey invented
Answer: 1899