2005-15: Santa Claus' Towers of Hanoi

DIMACS TR: 2005-15

Santa Claus' Towers of Hanoi

Authors: Xiaomin Chen, Bin Tian and Lei Wang

ABSTRACT
Two new variants of the Towers of Hanoi problem are proposed. In both variations, one is allowed to put a bigger disk directly on the top of a smaller one under some restrictions. We give procedures to solve these two versions, and prove the optimality of our procedures. Our solution also resolves a problem, which is similar to one of our versions, proposed by D. Wood tweenty-four years ago.

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