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Tower of Hanoi is a popular puzzle game. Exercise your logical thinking!

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Tower of Hanoi rules

Tower of Hanoi is a mathematical puzzle game invented by the French mathematician Edouard Lucas in 1883.

Objective

There is a board with three pits. In the first pit, a number of pieces are neatly stacked in order of size. The objective of the game is to move the entire stack to a different pit.

Gameplay

Only one piece may be moved at a time, by dragging the topmost piece from one of the stacks and dropping it into a different pit, on top of the other pieces that may already lie there. Yet, no piece may be placed on top of a smaller one.

Minimal number of moves

The minimal number of moves for a stack of n pieces is 2n-1. Therefore, a stack of 3 pieces can be displaced in 7 moves.

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