The Heristic of the Hill Climbing Problem

The dangers represented by the hill climbing heristic are actually played out in literal topography. A certain amount of random ness, or willingness to be apparently counterproductive, at least for the moment, can go a long way. And this is clearly what's been found in thes studies using the hobits and ork's problem. The part they have the hardest time figuring out is where you have to move multiple pieces away from your in state in order to actually get there.