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Samuel Loyd (January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911 [1]) was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician.Loyd was born in Philadelphia but raised in New York City.
Sam Lloyd (November 12, 1963 – April 30, 2020) [1] was an American actor and singer who played lawyer Ted Buckland on the comedy-drama series Scrubs and the sitcom Cougar Town. Early life [ edit ]
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]
Loyd had a friend who was willing to wager that he could always find the piece which delivered the principal mate of a chess problem. Loyd composed this problem as a joke and bet his friend dinner that he could not pick a piece that didn't give mate in the main line (his friend immediately identified the pawn on b2 as being the least likely to deliver mate), and when the problem was published ...
In 1914, Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles is published posthumously by his son (also named Sam Loyd). [10] The puzzle is therein explained as follows: [ 11 ] [ 2 ] The funny old King is now trying to work out a second puzzle, which is to draw a continuous line through the center of all of the eggs so as to mark them off in the fewest number of ...
In introducing the puzzle, creator Sam Loyd describes it as having been constructed to specifically foil Leonhard Euler's rule for solving any maze puzzle by working backwards from the end point. [1] The following are Sam Loyd's original instructions: Start from the heart in the center.
Sam Lloyd (born 3 March 1990) is a former Australian rules footballer. He played for the Western Bulldogs and the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Lloyd played as a midfielder and small forward and was renowned for his goal-sense and ability to win forward line one-on-one contests. [ 1 ]
Samuel or Sam Lloyd may refer to: . Samuel T. Lloyd III (born 1950), dean of Washington National Cathedral; Sam Lloyd (1963–2020), American actor and singer; Sam Lloyd (footballer) (born 1990), Australian rules footballer for Western Bulldogs, formerly for Richmond