Hanoi Garden

The game

The ancient Towers of Hanoi, reimagined as a Japanese rock garden: instead of plastic discs you move hand-thrown bonsai pots between three garden stones, one pot at a time, and a wider pot may never rest upon a narrower one. Everything is painted in sumi-e ink on rice paper — brushstroke pegs, gold-leaf flecks on the great pot, tiny bonsai crowning each stack. Zen mode adds falling cherry petals and a slow breath timer: finish the whole tower within a single breath for a bonus star. Choose your burden from 5 to 8 pots.

How to play

• Drag the topmost pot off a stone and drop it onto another stone — press it, pull it through the air, release near the target.
• You may never place a wider pot upon a narrower one; an illegal drop shakes the garden and the pot drifts back.
• Goal: move the entire stack to the far stone. The HUD counts your moves against perfection — the minimum possible.
• Stars: clearing earns one, perfect move count earns another, and finishing within the breath timer in zen mode earns the third.
• Pick 5, 6, 7 or 8 pots on the title screen; Enter or a click begins. P or Esc pauses, R restarts, ✿ toggles zen, ♪ toggles sound.