About Tower of Hanoi

Tower of Hanoi asks you to move the whole stack to the right peg while keeping larger disks below smaller ones. Start with three disks to learn the pattern, then work toward the 255-move minimum for eight. This three-peg edition displays the classic starting minimum and saves records separately by disk count and mode. Hints find a shortest continuation from your current legal position, while Undo lets you revisit an unfinished choice. Pause stops the active timer, and restored local games wait for you to resume. The shared UTC daily challenge selects five, six or seven disks on the normal starting board; it does not introduce a different rule variant.

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How to play

Choose a peg with disks, then a destination peg. Move only the top disk, never placing it on a smaller one. Rebuild the entire tower on the rightmost peg.

Rules in this version

Classic uses three pegs and three to eight disks.
Move one disk at a time, taking only the top disk from a peg.
A larger disk can never rest on a smaller disk.
Win by moving the full tower to the right peg.
The classic starting minimum is 2ⁿ − 1 moves. Daily selects five to seven disks by UTC date.

Tips for playing

Learn to move a small tower as a single stage within a larger plan.
Free the largest disk and its destination before committing to its move.
Hints work from the current position, while the displayed starting minimum stays fixed.