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 Monday, 17 October 2005 11:25 AM
I guess I was lucky - took me four rolls to get the algorithm, then 10 more to be confirmed as a Potentate of the Rose.
The misdirection idea is used in many other puzzles - and it is usually the smart people who get caught out by this, doing deep mathematical analyses of irrelevant detail.
I think reading Martin Gardner's Scientific American articles probably improved my problem identifying abilities.
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