Pin the tail on the donkey

A picture of a donkey with a missing tail is tacked to a wall within easy reach of children.

[2] One at a time, each child is blindfolded and handed a paper "tail" with a push pin or thumbtack poked through it.

The player who pins their tail closest to the target, the donkey's rear, wins.

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.

[3] 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].