Tower of Hanoi — free online game
Tower of Hanoi
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Tower of Hanoi — free online game

Tower of Hanoi

Rating
7.3 (40 votes)
Technology
HTML5
Platform
Browser (desktop, mobile, tablet)
Screen Orientation
Landscape
Release
September 2021
Name
Tower of Hanoi
Category
Puzzle
Content
Kids-friendly No blood No cruelty

Tower of Hanoi and the three-peg disk stack challenge

This puzzle puts you in front of a fixed stack of disks and asks you to rebuild it on another peg without breaking the size rule. Each move changes the whole route, so you’re always choosing whether to advance the stack or clear space for the next piece.

Three pegs, one legal move rule

The board stays stripped down to the essentials: one tower, three pegs, and only one disk moving at a time. You can place a disk only on an empty peg or on top of a larger one, which turns every click into a planning choice instead of a guess.

Using the smallest disk as a helper

The smallest piece often becomes your temporary bridge, letting you open paths without trapping the bigger disks behind it. That pattern matters because one blocked move can send you back several steps, so you have to read the order before you shift the stack. It plays on mobile and desktop, so the same peg logic works whether you use a mouse or a touch screen.

Why the order matters on a tower puzzle

Since the whole layout is built around a single stack, the challenge is to break one large transfer into smaller transfers you can actually manage. That makes the game a good fit for fans of tower layouts and puzzles, especially when you want a clear goal in mobile play without clutter. If you like sequencing problems, this one keeps every peg and disk in plain view. The clean setup also makes it easy to spot the next legal opening, even when the route to the finish is long.