Stanford Engineering Puzzle

May 2007

It's always exciting to see a new builiding rise from the ground, especially when it is one so full of hope and promise as the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building. Soon three more buildings—bioengineering and chemical engnineering; nanotechnology; and a new Stanford Engineering center and library —will join E&E in the SEQ2.

Directions for puzzle

In this puzzle your job is to navigate around SEQ2, moving from building to building rolling over the letters in appropriate order (use the undo and redo buttons to if you realize you've made a mistake, or just refresh the page). For fun we will post (below) the names of every ten alumni who successfully complete the puzzle and e-mail the secret word in the subject line to staff member Marge Kastner. She'll post entry number 1, 11, 21, 31, 41, etc. up to 91.

You must have Flash installed to run this puzzle, which was designed by Scott Kim of Shufflebrain and programmed by Larry Doyle of Cyberiandesign.

This must be a tough puzzle. The solutions are not rushing in as fast as usual. Keep working on it. We'll keep posting every tenth solver--it's never too late--at least until the next puzzle comes out in June. Every solver, listed or not, will be considered for the honorary degrees in Puzzology that we will be granting in June, depending on individual persistence.

"Winning" entries

• 1) Nick Baxter
• 11) Jasna Ristic-Djurovic
• 21) Michael Burgart
• 31) Tim Daughters
• 41) Kapil Viswanathan
• 51) Terry Weir
• 61) Lillian Chang
• 71) David Reid
• 81) Oscar Brooks
• 91) Viren Bhanot
• 101) Joseph Mansur

Do you want to try your hand at past puzzles? Go to our Archive page.