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((Short description|Traditional children's game))
((Refimprove|date=October 2007))
[[File:Ezeltje-prik (september 2012).jpg|thumb|Child playing a version of pin the tail on the donkey where the tail is attached to a dart, to be pushed into a [[dart board]].]]

'''Pin the tail on the donkey''' is a [[game]] played by groups of children. The earliest version listed in a catalog of American games compiled by the American Game Collectors Association in 1998, is dated 1899, and attributed to Kate Hunt.<ref>http://gamecatalog.org/gc/printed/gc8.pdf ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140611053939/http://www.gamecatalog.org/gc/printed/gc8.pdf |date=2014-06-11 )) The Game Catalog, 8th Edition, October 1998 - Page 89</ref> 

It is common at birthday parties and other gatherings. A picture of a [[donkey]] with a missing tail is tacked to a wall within easy reach of children.<ref name="CCT">((Cite book 
 | title=Pin the Tail on the Donkey
 | author=Finlay Hunt
 | author2=Stephanie Calmenson
 | author3=Alan Tiegreen
 | publisher=Chronicle Books
 | year=2004
 | pages=8–9
 | isbn= 1-58717-230-5 
 ))</ref>
One at a time, each child is [[blindfold]]ed and handed a paper "tail" with a push pin or thumbtack poked through it. The blindfolded child is then spun around until disoriented.<ref name="CCT"/> The child gropes around and tries to pin the tail on the donkey.  The player who pins their tail closest to the target, the donkey's rear, wins.<ref name="CCT"/>  The game, a [[Group (sociology)|group]] [[Physical_activity|activity]], is generally not competitive; "winning" is only of marginal importance. It is often seen as more entertaining, seeing the children stumble around and try to put their tail at the right place.<ref name="EoPiTS483">Rodney P. Carlisle: Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society, Band 2, SAGE, 2009, P. 483</ref>

The game is also used in child development research.<ref> ((cite journal|title=Childhood Derivatives of Inhibition and Lack of Inhibition to the Unfamiliar|journal=Child Development|date=December 1988|first=Jerome|last=Kagan |author2=J. Steven Reznick |author3=Nancy Snidman |author4=Jane Gibbons |author5=Maureen O. Johnson |volume=59|issue=6|pages=1580–1589|doi=10.2307/1130672|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|jstor=1130672 |pmid=3208569))</ref>

The game can also be played by teenagers and adults, especially if the "donkey" is replaced with depictions of something or someone else.  As a [[drinking game]], the person with the worst tail pinning is awarded one shot of a selected alcohol, to be determined by house rules or the loser in a friendly environment.<ref name="EoPiTS483" />

Idiomatically, the term can be used derisively for any assigned activity which is pointless or for which a person has been handicapped (blindfolded)((Citation needed|date=May 2008)).

==See also==
*[[Eeyore]], a character who loses his tail and has to have it pinned back on.
*[[Fukuwarai]], a similar Japanese game
*[[Piñata]]

==References==
((reflist))

((Party games))

[[Category:Children's games]]
[[Category:American games]]
[[Category:British games]]
[[Category:Party games]]

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