Hanoi Tower



AGELESS FUN - TOWER OF HANOI
Japanese mathematic school books explain the Tower of Hanoi. Our Tower of Hanoi toy is loved by everyone, children and adults.
Students use this Tower as a model for their PC programming. Ajoy for puzzle and riddle loving kindergardeners. Small infants love moving the pieces around, over and over. Such a mathematical challenge. Kindergardeners and elementary school kids have fun competing with their parents. Tiny kids are entranced as they play with the brightly coloured rings. The wooden rings clang together in an almost musical way. Just be sure to take care with the smallest ring, it could be popped into someone's little mouth.



CHALLENGING STRATEGY
Move all coloured rings from the Black rod to the other rods
★GAME RULES
1. Rings must be moved one per turn.
2. A big ring cannot be placed on a smaller ring.
3.The rings cannot be placed anywhere but on the rods.
ADVICE
Please watch the image of this Hanoi Tower as the first preliminary 8 steps to the puzzle are presented. It is a good hint. At first only a few rings are moved, later as more rings move the more difficult the puzzle becomes. As the rings pile on each other, each additonal ring doubles the challenge.Try to pile all the rings in their correct order on a different rod. Good Luck!

Once you have figured out the puzzle see how fast you can do it !
Ginga Kobo Toys record for completing this puzzle is 71 seconds. The champion was Ginga Kobo Toys 21 year old daughter.

TOWER OF HANOI EXCERPT FROM WIKIPEDIA
The puzzle was invented by the French mathematician Édouard Lucas in 1883. There is a legend about an Indian temple which contains a large room with three time-worn posts in it surrounded by 64 golden disks. Brahmin priests, acting out the command of an ancient prophecy, have been moving these disks, in accordance with the rules of the puzzle, since that time. The puzzle is therefore also known as the Tower of Brahma puzzle. According to the legend, when the last move of the puzzle is completed, the world will end. It is not clear whether Lucas invented this legend or was inspired by it.
If the legend were true, and if the priests were able to move disks at a rate of one per second, using the smallest number of moves, it would take them 264−1 seconds or roughly 585 billion years or 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 turns to finish.

CALCULATION OF MOVES AND RING POSITION
1 Ring=1Move,2 Rings=3 Moves, 3 Rings = 7 Moves,4 Rings=15 Moves.
If the No. of Rings = n, then the Ring position may be determined more directly from the binary (base 2) representation of the move number (the initial state being move #0, with all digits 0, and the final state being #2n−1, with all digits 1). For Example, 10 rings would be 2 to the 10th degree-1 (1024-1) = 1023 Moves. If one move equals one second the table shows the time required....

1Ring
2Rings
3Rings
4Rings
5Rings
6Rings
7Rings
8Rings
9Rings
10Rings
11Rings
12Rings
13Rings
14Rings
15Rings
16Rings
17Rings
18Rings
19Rings
20Rings
21Rings
22Rings
23Rings
24Rings
25Rings
26Rings
27Rings
28Rings
29Rings
30Rings
31Rings
32Rings
1Move
3Moves
7Moves
15Moves
31Moves
63Moves
127Moves
255Moves
511Moves
1,023Moves
2,047Moves
4,095Moves
8,191Moves
16,383Moves
32,767Moves
65,535Moves
13,1071Moves
262,143Moves
524,287Moves
1,048,575Moves
2,097,151Moves
4,194,303Moves
8,388,607Moves
16,777,215Moves
33,554,431Moves
67,108,863Moves
134,217,727Moves
268,435,455Moves
536,870,911Moves
1,073,741,823Moves
2,147,483,647Moves
4,294,967,295Moves
1Second
3Seconds
7Seconds
15Seconds
31Seconds
1Min.3Sec.
2Min.7Sec.
3Min.15Sec.
6Min.31Sec.
17Min.3Sec.
34Min.7Sec.
1Hour 8Min.15Sec.
2Hours16Min.31Sec.
4Hours 33Min.3Sec.
9Hours 6Min.7Sec.
18Hours 12Min.15Sec.
1Day12Hours24Min.31Sec.
3Days.49Min.3Sec.
6Days.1Hours 38Min.7Sec.
12Days.3Hours 16Min.15Sec.
24Days.6Hours 32Min.31Sec.
48Days.13Hours 4Min.3Sec.
97Days. 2Hours 10Min.7Sec.
194Days 4Hours 20Min.15Sec.
1Year 23Days 8Hours 40Min.31Sec.
~2Years 46Days17Hours
~4Years 3Months
~8.5Years
~17Years
~34Years
~68Years
~136Years

6 Year Old Playing with Tower of Hanoi
1 & 1/2 year old boy- Is it fun putting rings on the rods?


NEUROLOGICAL REVERSAL VERSION
Once conquering the puzzle try reversing the order of the rings, an upside down triangular pyramid. This puzzle version is somewhat confusing, a great challenge to the more brilliant.The first genius to try this reversal was Professor Ben Wada.
Nagano University, Professor Ben Wada puzzles through the reversal of the Hanoi Tower without a second thought.
I would like to thank Professor Ben Wada for his brilliant insights and academic support concerning the Tower of Hanoi.


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I give up!

Several Years Later

It's so easy. Here goes the last ring! 8 year old girl


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