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English: Illustration for the fifteen puzzle in Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles (1914) by Sam Loyd, p. 235.

Image is a black-and-white drawing (etching) and depicts a farmer kneeling (in a plowed row) in front of a fifteen puzzle in an impossible to solve configuration (14 and 15 switched), scratching his head in puzzlement, with his straw hat on the ground, his horse and plow abandoned on the left, a fence to the right, with numerous black birds and one rabbit visible. The sun is setting in the distance, reinforcing the passage of time.

Above the image, the title text reads “The 14-15 Puzzle in Puzzleland”.
Date Book from 1914, scanned 2005
Source Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of Puzzles pp. 234–235, scanned image, on web page, linked from The Cyclopedia of Puzzles, page by Ed Pegg Jr.
Author Sam Loyd, scanned by Ed Pegg Jr, 2005


This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Crop of original scan of pp. 234–235 (cop234-235.jpg) via: 
jpegtran -crop 660x412+900+40 cop234-235.jpg > 14-15.jpg
. Modifications made by Nbarth.

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Note that the scanner, Ed Pegg Jr, also writes at The Cyclopedia of Puzzles:

I hereby put this version of Sam Loyd's 1914 work into the public domain. (Ed Pegg Jr, 2005)

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