After retirement as contestant from WHU ACM Team, flymouse volunteered to do the odds and ends such as cleaning out the computer lab for training as extension of his contribution to the team. When Christmas came, flymouse played Father Christmas to give gifts to the team members. The team members lived in distinct rooms in different buildings on the campus. To save vigor, flymouse decided to choose only one of those rooms as the place to start his journey and follow directed paths to visit one room after another and give out gifts en passant until he could reach no more unvisited rooms.

During the days on the team, flymouse left different impressions on his teammates at the time. Some of them, like LiZhiXu, with whom flymouse shared a lot of candies, would surely sing flymouse’s deeds of generosity, while the others, like snoopy, would never let flymouse off for his idleness. flymouse was able to use some kind of comfort index to quantitize whether better or worse he would feel after hearing the words from the gift recipients (positive for better and negative for worse). When arriving at a room, he chould choose to enter and give out a gift and hear the words from the recipient, or bypass the room in silence. He could arrive at a room more than once but never enter it a second time. He wanted to maximize the the sum of comfort indices accumulated along his journey.