---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <rjn@mathstat.dal.ca> Date: Friday, April 9, 2010 Subject: [math-fun] Sticky Towers of Hanoi To: Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> Cc: finka@math.berkeley.edu Thane, I remember Alex Fink did a lot of work with Conway on this problem. Richard

I remember writing a program for it, similar to one that Erik  Demaine (who was also there) wrote, but I don't remember the rules.  Erik?

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On Apr 8, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Fred lunnon <fred.lunnon@gmail.com> wrote:

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Sticky Towers of Hanoi was apparently invented by John Conway, while attending a Combinatorial Theory Workshop held at "BIRS" (Berkeley?) in June 2005, and attended by (amongst others) Richard Guy and (Thane?) Plambeck [we know what you did last summer]. See  https://www.birs.ca/workshops/2005/05w5048/report05w5048.pdf

Is anyone in a position to disclose to us the rules pertaining to this mysterious diversion?

Fred Lunnon

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