Towers of Hanoi

Traditional games concept

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games
26
platforms
A simple puzzle game where one has three poles (the towers), one of which has a pile of disks of different sizes ordered smallest on top and largest at the bottom. Player's task is to move the tower to the right pole with simple contraint of not placing larger disk on top of smaller one and obviously not moving more than one disk at a time (no disk may be removed from the poles completely so another can be moved).

This is a trivial puzzle that many may have played as a kid, for adults the difficulty of the puzzle is generally too low as it doesn't require any effort, especially once you know how to solve it.

The game's so simple that you can easily create a mockup of it with pieces of trash paper, either by cutting them to the different sizes or numbering them.

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Parent group

Transport puzzle

Games by year

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The first Towers of Hanoi video game was released in 1973.

Database Educational Software, Commodore and Learning Technologies published most of these games.

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Platforms

MS-DOS 8
C64 7
Apple II E 6
Commodore PET 4
ZX Spectrum 3
custom 2
VIC-20 2
TRS-80 2
Memotech MTX 1
Linux 1
ABC 80 1
Altair 8800 1
Tandy Zoomer 1
Epson HX-20 1
MSX 1
TI Calculators 1
BeOS 1
Amstrad PCW 1
Sord M5 1
ZX 81 1
Amstrad CPC 1
Atari 400/800 1
Electron 1
BBC 1
EXL 100 1
C128 1

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