# Tower of Hanoi The Tower of Hanoi (also called the Tower of Brahma or Lucas' Tower and sometimes pluralized) is a mathematical game or puzzle. It consists of three rods and a number of disks of different sizes, which can slide onto any rod. The puzzle starts with the disks in a neat stack in ascending order of size on one rod, the smallest at the top, thus making a conical shape. The objective of the puzzle is to move the entire stack to another rod, obeying the following simple rules: - Only one disk can be moved at a time. - Each move consists of taking the upper disk from one of the stacks and placing it on top of another stack or on an empty rod. - No disk may be placed on top of a smaller disk.  Animation of an iterative algorithm solving 6-disk problem With `3` disks, the puzzle can be solved in `7` moves. The minimal number of moves required to solve a Tower of Hanoi puzzle is `2^n − 1`, where `n` is the number of disks. ## References - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi) - [HackerEarth](https://www.hackerearth.com/blog/algorithms/tower-hanoi-recursion-game-algorithm-explained/)