A computational puzzle devised by Édouard Lucas (1842–1891), a French mathematician. It is familiar to two disparate groups of scientists: mathematicians and computer scientists, who use it to investigate mathematical questions; and to...

The towers of Hanoi is an ancient mathematical puzzle likely to have originated in India. It consists of three poles, in which one is surrounded by a certain number of discs with a decreasing diameter. The object of the puzzle is to move all of the...

The Tower of Hanoi or Towers of Hanoi is a mathematical game or puzzle. It consists of three pegs, and a number of disks of different sizes which can slide onto any peg. The puzzle starts with the disks neatly stacked in order of size on one peg, the...

This paper reports a study that investigated the relationships between verbal and spatial measures of working memory capacity and performance on the Tower of Hanoi and a conditional reasoning task Four working memory measures were included, a simple word span, a simple spatial span,...

Thirty-seven adult subjects were given a 15-move Tower of Hanoi (TOH) disk-transfer problem, for which accuracy, errors, and length of pause prior to a move were recorded. Subjects were also questioned as to whether and why they paused during problem solving. The majority of...