The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1911-04-21
SAM LLOYD, The
PUZZLE MAKER
He Was Inventor Of The Famous
pigs In Clover"
AMASSED A LARGE FORTUNE.

Known as the Puzzle King, He Set
Problems That Taxed the Ingenuity
of the World For Two Generations.
The Donkey Made Him the Most
Money.
Sam Lloyd, the puzzle man, whose
puzzles have taxed the minds of the
whole world for almost two genera
tions, died recently at his home in
Brooklyn. He had made a fortune
out of his puzzles and died a very
wealthy man.
1t was as the puzzle king" that
Sam Lloyd was best known, but be-
sides being a puzzle maker he was an
artist of some ability, an inventor of
mechanical devices, writer, chess
player of great proficiency and a pro
found mathematician. HIS ability in
the latter field was at the bottom of
much of his success as a puzzle
maker
He was born in Philadelphia in 1S41
Of an old Quaker family and at the
age Of ten was playing chess with
some of the cracks of the country and
often beating them First he studied
engineering, and then he studied math-
ematics and languages at Heidelberg.
But all the while he was making puz-
zles for his own amusement and to
perplex his friends. When he was
twenty-five years old he became n
professional puzzle maker, conducting
a puzzle department in various news
papers for many years thereafter and
spreading his fame to the far corners
of the earth.
Most Famous Puzzles.
The two most famous puzzles in
vented by Sam Lloyd were pigs H.
clover and the fifteen puzzle. His
puzzles were divided into two general
classes-namely, those requiring man
ual dexterity and those requiring
mental dexterity. Many folks through
out the world got the pigs into the
right place at the expense of their
nervous systems, but nobody ever
solved the fifteen puzzle. 1t had or-
Cured to Lloyd while trying an old
Hindu puzzle of the magic square.
Famous mathematicians sought to
work it ont all over the world, but
their solutions never came right ac-
cording to its author Mr.. Lloyd after
ward said that he never made any
money out of his fifteen block puzzle
because he was unable to have it
copyrighted, nor did he out of the
"pigs in clover" One store alone
sold 100000 sets of his block puzzle
when the craze was on.
The puzzle out of which this Inventor
of brain twisters made the most mon
ey was the donkey puzzle, in which
the object was to put two jockeys on
the backs of two donkeys. This he
patented and sold in large quantities.
The facility with which his brain could
turn out puzzles of such a kind as to
bafIlle the keenest mind and give half
the world headaches was shown when
he turned out the pony puzzle. 1t was
turned out in response to bet made
by a governor of Pennsylvania while
returning on the same steamer from
Europe with the puzzle maker in 1868.
The governor had challenged Lloyd to
produce new puzzle before the pas
sengers in the smoking room. Lloyd
took a pencil, drew pony and cut him
up into three pieces. The pony was
galloping before he cut it up, but the
thing was to make it gallop afterward.
The governor offered reward then for
anybody to solve it on the voyage, but
nobody did and not many afterward
Invaded England.
+. L. Barnum heard of this puzzle
and ordered 100000 for advertising
use. The Snowman Travelled around
with the solution in his pocket, as he
sould not remember it overnight, he
said. In the end 1,000,O00,000 copies
Of the puzzle were sold. This and some
Of the others netted him a great deal
of money, which he shrewdly invested
In real estate and in good securities,
with the result that he amassed large
fortune. Shortly after turning out the
disappearing Chinaman" he went to
Europe and introduced his puzzles to
the English newspapers. Immediately
all England started to work over them.
Hundreds Of chess problems were
turned out by Sam Lloyd, whose first
prize for a maker of these was taken
when he was eleven years old He was
the author of "Chess Strategy" one of
The most popular works on the game
Turning to the mechanical field, he in
vented such puzzles as the chair puz-
oil nd tha cta DI1z1ln q
sible of solution.
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