UWEC CERCA 2025

The project that we will be presenting today is on the importance of restrictions or rules in a problem in order to make any problem easier to solve. We will be discussing this using a problem called the Tower of Hanoi, which is a puzzle problem of moving a tower of disks from one side of the board to the other in the least amount of moves possible. We will explain the original restrictions of the problem and then change or remove them to see what effects that has on the problem's pattern, and the ability to solve it. As a problem that has a lot of rules in place in order to keep its structure, the changes we make to this problem might greatly affect the puzzle this problem is considered to be.