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