Lloyd Borrett's Web Site

Sah471 · Joined: 03 Jul 2004 Posts: 1

I beat this "Petals Around the Rose" thing and it said I'm a "Potentate of the Rose".. So, what happens in this Fraternity?

footose · Joined: 07 Jul 2004 Posts: 2

You get the pleasure of tricking all your friends Very Happy

Gildor · Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 2

I found the answer (quite fast), but there's a little thing that makes the puzzle a needless more difficult. Don't know if i'm allowed to say but
the color's are not important, so why should we use different colors?

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Don't blaim my english, i'm dutch...

Kayr · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

I got it finally. Good puzzle. Had me getting mad at some points when I got 2 in a row only to find out I was doing the wrong thing. XP

StarStraf · Joined: 20 Sep 2004 Posts: 1 Location: Lawrence KS

I over thought this for a while, read the first part of the article and realized it had to be something you could solve quickly and that got me on the right track.

LordAshe · Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

Nice way to get the brain juices flowing on a slow work day.

Three minutes, and man was I silly actually taking paper out to write the rolls down!

sashi1977 · Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

I'm still annoyed it took me nearly an hour to figure out something so blindingly simple.

Maybe it's a wake up call for me to not look so closely at things... Wink

fey · Joined: 21 Sep 2004 Posts: 1

Heh. yeah, I'm not a very patient person, when I couldn't figure it out in three rolls like everyone was claiming they could, I read the article. I was about to the point where it talked about the guy getting phonecalls with outrageous solutions when I happened to scroll back through the rolls. My first simulated roll I thought it would be the number of spots on the dice surrounding the red die. Then, when that didn't pan out, I did a double take and had my solution.

It was actually sort of funny. But I think it's a good idea to have the die different colors because it throws people off the track. And what's the whole point of a brainteaser if not to make people feel really over-archingly stupid when they figure it out?

Psilogen · Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4

Phygia · Joined: 19 Sep 2004 Posts: 5

It is so blindingly easy. I felt really stupid afterwards... I was never really good at brain teasers including numbers... Laughing

Tetunot · Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 1

I enjoyed the game, funny, after reading the directions and repeating the name of the game. An idiom popped into my head "As plain as the nose on your face'. Idea

Then I got it.

markpoling · Joined: 21 Oct 2004 Posts: 1

Took me 2.5 hours of on-again, off-again fiddling with it. And what TICKS me off is I knew the key was the word "rose"....

Ijit. Rolling Eyes

RowenaDeVandal · Joined: 20 Oct 2004 Posts: 1

I actually lucked out on this one when i got a roll that was all 5's and a 3... Smile

i made my guess, which was wrong...as i sat there trying to figure out how the heck the game got the number it did, it hit me...Wow, did i feel dumb! But, it took my fiancee a lot longer to figure it out and i have another friend i'm going to tease with this for the next 6 months! Smile

hugz,
rowena

IamCool10 · Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 1

That was fricken soo obvious.. you guys r tryin to hard if u dint get it
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MoonDog · Posted: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 6:16 am Post subject:

Yep, trying hard definitely adds time to the solution, but fun is not in the quickness, but in the doing!!! Laughing

Cheers!

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