Click the board to let Zillions create a random setup.
You are given a board with several coloured bars and a certain number of black pivot balls. To rotate a bar by 45 degrees pick up one of its ends. You can rotate this end either to an empty position or to a pivot ball.
You can only rotate a bar around a black pivot ball.
The black pivot balls are fixed on the given board.

The ends of two bars cannot occupy the same position.
The orange bars are neutral and can have any position at the end of the game.
You win when you manage to swap the positions of the red and the blue bar. (Their original positions are indicated by small bars).

The next two variants have more random bars dropped.

There are also 50 variants with fixed setups:
You win when you manage to swap the positions of the red and the blue bar in the given number of moves. The target number of moves and the counter are shown on the lower left border.
To see the solution, select menu option Help/ShowSolution. All solutions have been found by hand; so you might be able to improve on them.

 
This game was inspired by a metal puzzle comprising a plate with holes and several rings.

More freeware and real puzzles and games at my homepage: karl.kiwi.gen.nz.