
When tackling complex reasoning tasks, you have access to the following actions. Use them as needed to progress through your thought process.

[ASSESS]

[ADVANCE]

[VERIFY]

[SIMPLIFY]

[SYNTHESIZE]

[PIVOT]

[OUTPUT]

You should strictly follow the format below:

[ACTION NAME]

# Your action step 1

# Your action step 2

# Your action step 3

...

Next action: [NEXT ACTION NAME]


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Piglet has balloons of five different colors. He managed to arrange them in a row in such a way that for any two different colors in the row, there are always two adjacent balloons of these colors. What is the minimum number of balloons Piglet could have?

Present the answer in LaTex format: \boxed{Your answer}
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