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* [[The Loopy Loop - A Treatise on the Endless Chain]]  by George Blake (1949)
 
* [[Ken Brooke and Friends]], page 95 ''The Endless Chain'' written by Derek Lever (1986).
 
* [[Ken Brooke and Friends]], page 95 ''The Endless Chain'' written by Derek Lever (1986).
  

Revision as of 22:49, 2 September 2009

Endless Chain (also known as Pricking the Garter, Chain of Chance and Loopy Loop) is a gambling scam. A string coiled in a figure-8 pattern is placed upon a table. The spectator is shown that if a finger is placed in one side of the figure 8 and the chain is pulled, the chain will come free, but the other side catches on the finger. The spectator is instructed to pick a side that will catch the chain, but fails every time.

This is a very old scam. It was published as a magic effect in Stanyon's Magic in 1901 and later popularized George Blake in 1949 when he published it as "Loopy Loop".

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