We present a scheme for remotely preparing a general two-particle entangled state via two tripartite W entangled states of different amplitudes. In this scheme one sender and two remote receivers are involved. The sender can help either one of the receivers to remotely reconstruct the original state with the aid of the other receiver's two single-particle orthogonal measurements. It is shown that by means of the method of the positive operatorvalued measurement, our remote state preparation scheme can be achieved probabilistically.Keywords Remote state preparation · W state · Positive operator-valued measurement Entanglement, a new class of correlations between quantum systems making quantum information different from classical information in nature, is a fundamental conception in quantum mechanics and quantum information theory. It has provided a new physical resource for quantum information processing such as quantum teleportation [1], quantum cryptography [2], remote state preparation [3][4][5][6][7][8], quantum computation [9] and so on. As to tripartite quantum pure states, there are only two nonequivalent classes, the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) class and the W class [10,11], under stochastic local operation and classical communication. Although the properties of the tripartite entangled states have not been fully understood, the tripartite GHZ state and W state have been applied in many aspects of quantum information [12][13][14][15], including remote state preparation (RSP) which is regarded as an interesting direction of quantum information. RSP has prospered since its inception [3][4][5], and is still in rapid development. It is also called "teleportation for a known state", for its task