162.--THE CARDBOARD CHAIN.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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Can you cut this chain out of a piece of cardboard without any join whatever? Every link is solid; without its having been split and afterwards joined at any place. It is an interesting old puzzle that I learnt as a child, but I have no knowledge as to its inventor.

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