The pancake puzzle is a standard testbed problem used in Artificial Intelligence and search, but has also been studied theoretically.
Instructions
Reset the puzzle to begin.
Try to solve the puzzle in as few moves as possible.
In the goal the pancakes are sorted with the largest at the bottom.
Click on a pancake to flip the stack starting at that pancake
When you have solved the puzzle, compare your solution length to the optimal solution
Benchmark Problems
Coming soon.
Research Citations
The pancake puzzle has been broadly used in past literature, and was the subject of competition. A sample of past publications using this domain includes the following references.
(This list is far from complete, and is still in the process of being updated. If you'd like to submit papers to be listed here, please e-mail
bib entries to nathanst@ualberta.ca)