Baguenaudier

The Chinese rings are a Vexier, whose aim is to liberate a long wire loop of the contiguous rings. Another variant ( in French and English -speaking countries also Baguenaudier ) has fixed against each other immovable rings, which are mounted on a board and make a cord loop must be freed.

History

Stewart Culin, an American ethnographer, has found that this puzzle goes back to a Chinese general Hung Ming ( 181-235 AD).

Solution

The solution requires a sequential " liberation" and re-threading of individual rings and works similar to the towers of Hanoi as a binary Gray code. To solve a puzzle with rings you need maximum (depending on the initial state) movements.

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