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I've pondered putting Sam Loyd's Cyclopedia of Puzzles (1914) on my site. Down at the bottom is a start. Here are some comments people have made. ... Chris Lusby Taylor: I was amused at the picture of the Uffington white horse on page 17 of Sam Loyd's book, reproduced on your Sam Loyd site. It is clear he never saw the...
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www.mathpuzzle.com/samloyd.htm
www.mathpuzzle.com/samloyd.htm
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Sam Loyd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Samuel Loyd (January 31, 1841–April 10, 1911), born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician. As a chess com...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Loyd
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© 1871-1911 Sam Loyd. All rights reserved. © 2005-2009 The Sam Loyd Company. All rights reserved. Sam Loyd is a registered trademark of The Sam Loyd Company. Sam Loyd Official Site - Get off the Earth, Trick Donkeys, Cyclopedia of Puzzles and more.
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www.samuelloyd.com/
www.samuelloyd.com/
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Sam Loyd has been dubbed America’s greatest puzzlist and an authentic American genius. For almost half a century, until his death in 1911 he was America’s undisputed puzzle king. Thousands of innovative puzzles appeared under his name, many of which are still popular today.
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www.knowl.demon.co.uk/page34.html
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Sam Loyd's Fifteen: As probably every one knows, the purpose of the puzzle is to get the original ordering of the counters after they have been randomly reshuffled. The only allowed moves are sliding counters into the empty square ... Eric Weisstein has noticed my misspelling of Sam Loyd's name. Originally I used double L...
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www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/fifteen.shtml
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A puzzle with a title like "Sam Loyd's Turf Puzzle" is called just "Turf puzzle" here. He evidently had a regular feature in some newspapers, like a comic strip, and the woodcuts were simply copied to the Cyclopedia.
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sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/loyd-cyc.txt
sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/loyd-cyc.txt
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But what’s even better, Defective Yeti had a link to the Sam Loyd website, where I learned about a truly old-school GeekDad, sort of a 19th-century Will Shortz. Samuel Loyd, born in 1841, started off as a chess player who loved to devise chess-related puzzles.
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www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/05/sam-loyd-classic-puzzles-...
www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/05/sam-loyd-classic-puzzles-and-riddles/
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Biography of Samuel Loyd (BB^Y-1911) ... Always known as Sam, Samuel Loyd was the creator of famous mathematical puzzles and recreations. He was born in Philadelphia where his father was an estate agent, but he did not live there for very long since when he was only three years old his family moved to New York.
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www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Loyd.html
www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Loyd.html
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