Sonic the Hedgehog 3/Special Stages

In the special stages, you must collect all the blue spheres while avoiding the red spheres. If you collect all the blue spheres you are rewarded with a Chaos Emerald.

Game Screen
This counter shows how many blue spheres are remaining.

This counter shows the number of rings collected.

Making Rings
Groups of blue spheres can be turned into rings by going around the outside of them.

A Simple Example
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There must be at least 1 blue sphere in the center.

Irregular Shapes
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Notice how only the spheres in the outline and the center turn into rings.