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Towers of Hanoi

The Towers of Hanoi (or the Towers of Brahma or the Reve's puzzle) is an old combinatorial puzzle. The objective is to move n discs from peg #1 to peg #3. However, only one disc may be moved at each turn and a larger disc must never sit on top of a smaller disc.






The solution is to move n-1 discs to the "spare" peg. This allows the largest disc to be moved to its destination. Finally move the n-1 discs from the spare peg to their destination on top of the biggest disc. The process of moving the n-1 discs is solved in a like manner.

[Reload] will run the puzzle again.

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