{ "schema": "tesign-radar/item/1", "generated_at": "2026-09-17T01:56:13.055Z", "lang": "en", "slug": "words-of-hanoi", "url": "https://tesign.com/en/item/words-of-hanoi/", "alternates": { "ko": { "html": "https://tesign.com/item/words-of-hanoi/", "json": "https://tesign.com/item/words-of-hanoi/index.json", "markdown": "https://tesign.com/item/words-of-hanoi/index.md" }, "en": { "html": "https://tesign.com/en/item/words-of-hanoi/", "json": "https://tesign.com/en/item/words-of-hanoi/index.json", "markdown": "https://tesign.com/en/item/words-of-hanoi/index.md" } }, "name": "Words of Hanoi", "use_label": "Daily word puzzle for puzzle fans", "one_liner": "A daily puzzle: move letter tiles between five tubes until every full tube spells a word.", "text": { "why": "Plenty of daily word games exist, but this one sorts letters instead of guessing them. Twelve letter tiles sit in five test tubes; you may move only the top tile onto a tube with room, and you win when every full tube spells a four-letter word. Boards are generated by walking 28 legal moves away from a solved position, so every board is provably solvable, every move can be undone, and any of the 902 listed words counts — not only the three the setter started from.", "take": "Three lines of rules teach it, and the maker even explains why every board can be solved — that honesty is the charm.", "build": [ "A two- or three-minute daily habit next to your morning coffee", "A friendly rivalry: copy the result strip and compare move counts on the same board", "An experiment: rebuild a board from its seed with the unminified engine (/hanoi-engine.js) and hunt for a route shorter than par" ], "who": [ { "role": "Word-game fan", "situation": "wants one more puzzle in the daily routine" }, { "role": "Family or coworkers", "situation": "compare move counts on the same board" }, { "role": "Aspiring puzzle maker", "situation": "reads a real seeded generator and a solvability proof in plain code" } ], "start": [ { "command": false, "text": "Open https://crux.quest/hanoi → tap a tube to lift its top tile, then tap where it goes" }, { "command": false, "text": "Keyboard: 1 to 5 pick up and drop, arrows move focus, Space or Enter acts, Z undoes, R resets, ? opens the help panel" }, { "command": false, "text": "A new board appears at midnight UTC; the stats panel shows that moment in your time zone" } ], "caveat": [ "License unconfirmed — the engine (/hanoi-engine.js) and word list (/hanoi-words.js) are served unminified, but no terms of use are stated", "Free · no login or tracking; streaks and counts stay in local storage · needs JavaScript", "English four-letter words only (902 of them); no Korean edition", "The page's 'Play the whole thing in the app' link returns 404 as of 2026-09-15; the web version works", "Shown on HN 2026-09-13 (1 point, 0 comments) · the second web game from Crux" ] }, "cta": { "type": "try", "label": "TRY", "url": "https://crux.quest/hanoi" }, "ready": "browser", "categories": [ "games" ], "categories_confirmed": true, "tags": [ "word-game", "daily-puzzle", "browser-game", "no-login" ], "platform": [ "web" ], "license": { "spdx": null, "scope": "unknown", "scope_text": "Unconfirmed — check before use.", "url": null, "note": null, "open_source": null }, "language": null, "source_urls": { "canonical": "https://crux.quest/hanoi", "github": null, "huggingface": null, "app_store": null, "sightings": [ { "source": "showhn", "url": "https://crux.quest/hanoi", "posted_at": "2026-09-13T04:46:34.000Z", "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49680111" } ] }, "numbers": { "as_of": "2026-09-16T21:00:00.000Z", "stars": null, "stars_unit": "GitHub stars", "stars_checked_at": null, "stars_observed_since_check": null, "star_delta_24h": null, "star_delta_7d": null, "star_delta_30d": null, "star_delta_unit": "GitHub stars gained in the window, GH Archive events summed to as_of", "spark_14d": [ null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null ], "hf_likes": null, "hf_likes_observed_at": null, "hn_points": 1, "hn_points_observed_at": "2026-09-16T07:50:08.499Z", "store": null, "method": "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours." }, "ranks": null, "activity": null, "signals": [ { "kind": "new", "label": "NEW", "value": "2h OLD WHEN SEEN" } ], "images": { "og": "https://tesign.com/img/words-of-hanoi-8b4fea53d4.png", "cover": "https://tesign.com/img/words-of-hanoi-8b4fea53d4.png", "cover_width": 2400, "cover_height": 1260, "gallery": [ "https://tesign.com/img/words-of-hanoi-8b4fea53d4.png" ], "alt": "Words of Hanoi play screen: five test tubes of letter tiles with Moves and Par counters above and Undo and Reset buttons below.", "tier": 1 }, "dates": { "first_seen_at": "2026-09-13T07:43:20.294Z", "source_created_at": "2026-09-13T04:46:34.000Z", "discovery_hours": 2.9461927777777777, "launch_signal_at": "2026-09-13T04:46:34.000Z", "kept_at": "2026-09-15T14:07:35.277Z", "first_published_at": "2026-09-15T14:07:35.397Z", "updated_at": "2026-09-15T14:07:35.372Z", "ingestion_mode": "live" }, "notes": [ "This file was produced by the same build, from the same data, as the tesign.com item page. The text is editorial; the numbers are stored observations.", "null in the JSON means not observed — never zero. The Markdown writes [unconfirmed] for it.", "Star total = the value last checked on GitHub (stars_checked_at) + increases observed via GH Archive since. The 24h · 7d · 30d gains are GH Archive hourly events summed to the reference time (as_of). No score of ours.", "A summary, not legal advice." ] }