The Magnetic Tower of Hanoi
A puzzle-game created and developed by Dr. Uri Levy
The Magnetic Tower of Hanoi game is an extension of the classic Towers of Hanoi game.
The game consists of a base, three poles and a number of size-ordered discs placed on a "source" pole. Similar to the classic version, the game's objective is to transfer all discs, one by one, to a "destination" pole (one of the two free poles).
In this extended version of the game however, every disc has two colors – "RED" and "BLUE".
Lifting a disc will cause it to flip so that its colors are interchanged (top RED becomes bottom RED and, necessarily, bottom BLUE becomes top BLUE).
Game rules:
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A disc cannot be placed on top of a smaller disc.
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Contact between similar colors is not allowed. For Example: lifting a disc with RED facing up, will make it flip so that now RED will face down. Hence this disc cannot be placed on top of a disc with RED facing up.
Think of the different colors as magnetic poles: opposites attract and likes repel (this is where the name of the game comes from).
Play Instructions:
- Click on the disc you wish to transfer (or on the base of the pole carrying that disk).
- Now click on the target pole.
- Click "Undo" if you change your mind.
- Try to solve a 3-disk Tower with 11 moves, a 4-disk Tower with 30 moves.
- Enjoy!
Can you solve a 5 disc Tower in 83 moves?!
Contact: urilevy99@gmail.com Uri.Levy@weizmann.ac.il
We would like to thank Seth Weiss for granting us permission to use his code for this applet
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