Meet the Puzzlers

The puzzlers are a group of Computer Science majors from Carleton College. This project is the senior integrative exercise for the puzzlers, completed on March 15, 2017.

dylan

Dylan Forbes is the ideal puzzler. Once a puzzle is placed before him, it has little time left until it is solved optimally. Outside of perfecting solving techniques, Dylan enjoys juggling and Jake and Amir. Every year, Dylan attends the Puzzlers United conference to catch up on all the latest puzzles that must be solved.

isaac

Isaac Garfinkle is the Postmaster General of the United States. In his free time, he masquerades as a college student who is an avid swing dancer and comedian. With all of this on his plate, Isaac still manages to seek out mail far and wide, in rain, sleet, and snow, to deliver it to the recipient clearly marked (with 5 digit zip code) in black or blue ink on the package.

reilly

Reilly Hallstrom—the chief dreamer—breathes light upon all he touches. Not really, but he claims he does. Besides building beautiful homepages for comps websites, Reilly truly loves the outdoors. In particular he is an avid flyfisherman and spends every spring on the rivers of northern Lake Superior. Reilly views fishing as the ultimate puzzle between Oncorhynchus mykiss (scientific name for Rainbow trout) and man.

reilly

Mica Mantilla A CS major with a Cognitive Science concentration, Mica enjoys computer games, racket sports, puzzling puzzles and discussing all of the these with friends or unsuspecting strangers. Her dreams include but are not limited to: getting a dog, learning how to grill, creating a sentient robot, and travelling to Italy. One of those will be happening relatively soon.

kai

Kai Pei Enter text here. Not much is known about the elusive Kai, but some say he has connections deep within all the western governments.

eric

Eric Walker is lead GitMeister for the project. Outside of his work instructing others about the intricacies of git merge --keep, Eric enjoys playing Frisbee and exploring the outdoors, especially on skis in the Colorado Rockies. One day, Eric hopes to generalize puzzles to enjoyment of the outdoors.

david

Special thanks to our advisor, David Liben-Nowell