The goal of this puzzle game is to position the riders so that it looks like each of them is riding a horse.
Note: Horses may not overlap.
Click on image below to play in flash.
The above is based on Sam Loyd’s ‘Saddle the Horse’ puzzle of 1871. His version, however, was likely derived from the ‘Dead Dogs Puzzle’ which appeared in an 1849 book The Family Friend.
Interestingly, when P.T. Barnum came across Loyd’s puzzle, he supposedly bought it for $10,000 (a lot of money back then!) and handed it out to the millions of people who visited his circus- making it one of the most popular puzzles of all time.
well i must admit, that one had me perplexed for quite a bit, but I finally figured it out. Two outstretched horses with riders on them.
jajaja this was cool, its like a mixing soup jaja, here is a possible solution:
1) the women is facing down in the horse with yellow belt facing down, and the man is in the right facing up, with the horse with the red belt facing up.
Rotate the horses so that one is upside down and above the other (back-to-back).
Rotate the riders so that they are sideways (horizontal), then slide them onto the horses so that the head of the horse with the red reins is joined to the hindquarters of the yellow-reined horse by the cowboy, and the head of the horse with yellow reins is ridden by the cowgirl.
The white midsections are visible between the horses, which appear to be leaping.
the only way i can seem to do it is if both riders are riding the horses upsidedown. the textures and shadows between the saddles and horses seem to line up this way, but i am doubting that this is the correct answer…
Here it is
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Rotate top horse twice so that it is upside down, rotate riders once so that they are horizontal, slide riders inbetween two horses and ‘viola’ two riders riding!
Rotate Horse 1 twice, Rotate Riders once, slide over the two horses, it now appears that the riders are riding horses with back legs high in air
ok i got it but they are upside down does that count? lol
the real cool thing is that the two original horses are put in different positions and the mixing of the original horses without overlapping form two new horses, this is really lateral thinking magic
the original horses are back to back and facing oposite directions, this is really cool, i did think rotating the pattern would not be considered a solution because of gravitational law
“Superhorses”
Deejam posted a nice image of the solution.