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Show 1 INMjSPDZZLEl An Individual Who is Responsible for a Whole Lot of Brain- Backer and. Intricate Puzzlfs, HIS MANY ACOOMPLISHMENT& He is a Mathematician, Chess Experty Ventriloquist, Journalist and a Few Mora Things, When Sancho Pan .a, of Don Quixote celebrity, uttered his famous bonedftv j lion, "Blessed 1m the man that invented 1 sleep," it was reserved for an individual of far more modern antecedents to in- vent something that has caused the bao- ishment of sleep from the eyes of han-I han-I dreds of his victims, who have at vari-I vari-I ons times becomo martyrs to his invent ive genius. j The person referred to is mnthema-I mnthema-I tician, a chess expert, a ventriloquist, J prestidigitator and a journalist, He is) I also a member of the New York Presa j club, and has provided entertainmend for hundreds of thousands of persons, I His genius, however, is more especially i employed in inventing pozzies, bothof ft ! mechanical and mental kind. His nam is Samuel Liiyd. He has during the ; past twenty-five years invented over 50V ', various problems, the names of the lead- ing games having become famonn I throughout the length and breadtlwrf I the United States and even in Europe. Th'i gentleman is the inventor of th celebrated 14-15 puzzle, parches!, th pony puzzle, the trick donkey pnsncle, tho pigs iu clover and many others. He has recently copyrighted his latest invention, in-vention, which he calls "blind lock," and which be pronounces to be the best of them all. now ire tuouqut op one. Mr. Loyd recently gave soveral intei esting particulars in relation to his many games. Parehesi was invented in 1805, and the idea came abont in rather a curious curi-ous way. A Broadway merchant had bought a quantity of gayly tinted paper remarkably cheap, and not knowing what to do with it had suggested to the pnzzle inventor that the colors might be utilized in making up an attractive game. In a few hours the various combinations of colors were deftly utilized and "parchesi" "par-chesi" was tho result. In 1809 the "trick donkey came- tm light. This was developed by accident. The inventor's father and himself were crossing from Europe in the company of a distinguished Pennsyl vanian. The tatter's tat-ter's daughter, Annie, then a little girl about 12 years old, being in need of some amusement, the inventor took a pair of scissors and a rough silhouotte outline of adonlmy, cut it away from the body of the paper, and left it to little Annie to put together again. With a few later improvements the puzzle assumed tho form made familiar to many thousands sf young people. Although this happened twenty-fir twits ago the reporter saw a letter writ ten quite recently by a New Jersey firm, requesting that 140,000 copies of tins puzzle be sent to them. Of the three pnzzlen considerably over 3,000,000 each . , were sold at a profit of about 100 pef cent , HIS LATEST INVENTION. "Pigs i. ..over" was introduced abont twenty-five years ilxo, under the name rf "la petite bagatelle," and it had quite an extensive run. It was copyrighted, but after tho expiration of the copyright some enterprising individual named it 4,pigs in clover," and its popularity revived. re-vived. The famous 14-15 puzzle was originally Sesigned as an advertising medium, and ome 10,000,000 were utilized for tha purpose before it was sold as a game. His latest invention is "blind luck. It has occupied the originator eight years of study, and has passed through some hundred various forms before the present one was finally selected. Iti name is a peculiarly happy one, and it is) the most simple lookinir affair it is noe- Bible to imagine. There is nothing mathematical in its appearance. The) game consists in placing half a dozen little sticks upon numbers from one to six, arranged njion a horseshoe design. The nnmbeis have the appearance of tha , ! face of dice, there being fonr ones and so on until four sixes are reached. Tha game is to try and make fifty-one or prevent pre-vent your opponent from making it. Each player plays alternately. The mystery in the game is to explain why it is that the more yon look at it and study it, the greater is the certainty of your being beaten by one who playa haphazard and depends entirely upon his luck to win. P. T. Bantam invested thousands of dollars in advertising his show through; the medium of tho pony puzzle and the ' trick donkey pnzzle. So did many others, though not on the samo colossal scale. There is scarcely a novelty publishing" house that is not more or less familiar with this puzzle inventing genius. New1 Yoi News. |
