The Tower of Hanoi puzzle is exactly the type of artificial, laboratory-based task that my Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) community has avoided. There is no expertise. No context, no uncertainty.

The Tower of Hanoi puzzle is exactly the type of artificial, laboratory-based task that my Naturalistic Decision Making (NDM) community has avoided. There is no expertise. No context, no uncertainty.

We devise a simple visual method to determine whether a Tower of Hanoi configuration is a part of the optimal puzzle solution. The proof, sketched here, uses both mathematical induction and counting ...