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The Olympic Wanderrings puzzle consists of a base with 5 pegs, and 25 rings that fit onto the pegs. The pegs are arranged and coloured just like the olympic rings logo, i.e. in a W formation with the colours blue, yellow, black, green, and red. Of each colour there are five rings, numbered 1 to 5. The rules of the puzzle are that you are only allowed to move exactly two or three rings as a unit (i.e. without changing their order) from one ring to another, and that a peg cannot hold more than 7 rings at a time. You start with a randomly mixed arrangement, and move two or three rings at a time to reached the solved position, in which each peg contains all the rings of the same colour, arranged in numerical order with 1 at the base and 5 on top. This puzzle is somewhat related to the Towers of Hanoi. If your browser supports it, you can click on the link below to play with a Javascript version of the Olympic Wanderrings.