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* The ''[[Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron|Spirit]]'' game, ''[[Long Title|Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron: Forever Free]]'' features one near the end. In exchange for a horse's freedom, someone wants a wheel to fix their cart, the blacksmith who has a wheel wants a blanket from Little Creek, Little Creek in turn wants an axe to chop wood with...and said axe can then be <s>stolen</s> taken from Snakefinger.
* This can happen between three or more players in ''[[Heroes of Newerth]]'''s and other ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]'' clones' Single Draft mode where every player is given a choice from three random heroes that can be swapped between other players in your team.
* In the first series of ''[[.hack]]'', one of the least favorite side-quests was to help someone with their trading service, which quickly [[Gone Horribly Wrong|went horribly wrong]] because nobody can do an even trade, and one more item had to be fetched in order to even start the chain of deals. Everyone [[
* An obscure point-and-click adventure entitled ''[[The Day The World Broke]]'' has a doozy of a chain. To get Carbine the half-Lizard, half-camera (all the non-human characters are half-animal, half-machine) to stop standing in the path of an element valve, which is causing chaos across Earth's surface, you need to fix his lens. The only place to get a lens is the Glass Works, where Carbine doesn't have the best reputation. That's a moot point, though, as the Glass Works is too busy filling orders for new glassware for Lugnut the bartender. So you need to get a note from Lugnut, who'll give it to you in exchange for getting rival bartender Decanter to part with rare bottle of sludge. In order to get that, Decanter wants a recording of a song his mother used to sing him, which requires an instrument that's notoriously difficult to find but fortunately is in the hands of one of Lugnut's customers, Ratchet, who will trade it to you for another instrument which ''actually doesn't exist'', so you need to enlist the help of Phlange, who will help you make something that could pass for it, but in order to get Phlange to help you, you have to get her to stop standing in a different element valve. To get her to do this, you have to call Julius and Bud at Mission Control, who will finally convince her to leave, allowing you to get her help to make the instrument to trade for the other instrument to trade for the recording to trade for the sludge to trade for the note to trade for the lens. ''Whew.''
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* An episode of ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' had Jimmy go through one to get Beezy's [[Collector of the Strange|collection of chewed gum]] back.
* One episode of ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]'' featured the main characters getting caught on a ridiculous looping Chain of Deals: they were A, they needed to pay D, so they went to collect money B owed them, but B couldn't pay them because C owed him money, and C couldn't pay ''him'' because D owed him, and then D couldn't pay because the main characters owed ''him''. It was eventually resolved by passing a cheque around in a circle, followed by [[Rule of Funny|singing a song about an egg named Steve]].
* In ''[[Futurama]]''
* In the ''[[Tale Spin]]'' episode “Double or Nothing”, Baloo offers to show Kif how to make "easy money" and convinces him he can “invest” Kit’s life savings of $50 in a way that Baloo can make enough money to buy a copy of his favorite record ''and'' pay Kit back double his investment. First Baloo uses the money to bribe Trader Moe’s henchmen into giving him a package that Moe intended to deliver to the polar bears at the arctic which contains… worms dressed in karate outfits. The polar bears use them to make fishing easier (the worms beat up the fish so the bears can collect them). The polar bears offer Baloo $200 (this alone is enough to buy the record and pay Kit back double) but Baloo insists on whatever they were going to give Trader Moe. Which is… a sled dog. Baloo brings the dog to Mawitch Village, where the residents are suffering from terrible allergies due to all the cats there. Once the dog scares the cats away, the mayor offers them a $500 reward, but again Baloo asks for whatever they were going to give Moe, which is…. A shipment of umbrellas. Baloo brings these to Mondo Bobo where the residents ([[Funny Animal]] hippopotami) are competing in a diving competition - [[Too Dumb To Live|into a ''dry'' lake]] - to impress the princess. Once the suitors have the umbrellas, they can do this without hurting themselves (well, at least not as badly as before), and the King offers them a $1,000 reward. Baloo starts to catch on here, and again asks for what they were going to give Moe, which is six clam shells. Baloo knows exactly what to do now, and flies them to Moola Boola, where they are able to exchange them for $10,000! Unfortunately, Trader Moe ambushes them out of revenge, and they lose most of it, but Baloo manages to hang onto a $100, so he is still able to keep his promise to Kit. (“That is the hardest easy money I ever made in my life,” he muses.) And seeing as Kit needed the $100 in the first place to buy Baloo a present (the record Baloo had initially wanted) it all works out in the end.
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* Interestingly, electrical power systems are often ''protected'' by a chain-of-deals-like system. In interlocking, you must satisfy certain conditions in order to operate an item of equipment (disconnectors, earth switches, access gates etc.) which involves following prescribed sequences of opening/closing switches to obtain keys to access other sequences to obtain another key that opens the shutter to the hand crank you need to operate the item of equipment you were interested in the first place. For added super-bonus fun, on offshore windfarms certain steps entail ''sailing'' between ''individual turbines'', key clutched in hand. The reason for this intentional complexity is to ensure that all equipment is made safe before anyone gets anywhere near it, and that there is no danger of damaging the main grid.
* Steven Ortiz received a used cell phone as a gift, used Craigslist to trade it for other things, and ended up with a 2000 Porsche, according to ''[[Cracked.com]]'''s [http://www.cracked.com/article_21500_the-6-most-amazing-things-ever-traded-pointless-crap.html The 6 Most Amazing Things Ever Traded For Pointless Crap].
* The ''Diary of Matthew Patten'' by 1700s New Hampshirite judge Matthew Patten is, in large part, a ledger of IOUs that shows how the shortage of currency in pre-revolutionary North America <ref>It was illegal for British gold and silver coinage to be exported to the colonies, to the point they paid government employees with foreign Spanish currency, which was not restricted.</ref> resulted in some pretty extensive barter chains that frequently looped in on themselves.
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