using the mouse to drag the topmost disk to another tower figure shows how this looks after several moves have been made there are three ways to use the workshop applet you can attempt to solve the puzzle manuallyby dragging the disks from tower to tower you can repeatedly press the step button to watch the algorithm solve the puzzle at each step in the solutiona message is displayedtelling you what the algorithm is doing you can press the run button and watch the algorithm solve the puzzle with no intervention on your partthe disks zip back and forth between the posts figure the towers of hanoi figure the towers workshop applet to restart the puzzletype in the number of disks you want to usefrom to and press new twice (after the first timeyou're asked to verify that restarting is what you want to do the specified number of disks will be arranged on tower once you drag disk with the mouseyou can' use step or runyou must start over with new howeveryou can switch to manual in the middle of stepping or runningand you can switch to step when you're runningand run when you're stepping try solving the puzzle manually with small number of diskssay or work up to higher numbers the applet gives you the opportunity to learn intuitively how the problem is solved