Towers of Hanoi

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You may freely choose your steps on the path - but the path is the path

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Example showing different choices of intermediate peg.

Not OMG, more OMAHD. Tower is to move from peg 1 to 5. On the 'Outrun' the rightmost free peg is used as the intermediate peg. On the 'Fetch' the nearest peg is used as the intermediate peg.