Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

Not as hard as you think. Pay attention to the name of the game.

The name IS important isn't it! I thought at first it would be a trick like "the name is important because the inventor gave it that name".

What a lovely puzzle. Of course for the last few days while trying to work it out, that isn't what I was calling it....

The solution is a bit like those 3D pictures where you have to refocus and look at it in a new way to solve it.

Hi, Nice Game! Took me between 30m to 45m. But it was nice to figure it out!

Cool one! ate almost an hour of my office time
but really feels nice after getting it!!

Nice game. Elegant problem. Hope I have beaten Bill Gates on this.

so much clue in this fourmn

Got the solution at the third roll!!! However I knew about a simmilar game called "The secret alliance of the pinguin-counters" so I knew what to look for. Still a nice puzzle. I read about it in de Dutch monthly KIJK.

This will make for an excellent diversion on our next RPG night.

It took me a LONG time... reminds me of this series of riddles:

Q1. How do you put a giraffe in a refrigerator?
*Open the door, put the giraffe in, close the door.
Q2. How do you put an elephant in a refrigerator?
*Open the door, take the giraffe out, put the elephant in, close the door.
Q3. The Lion King is hosting an animal conference. All the animals attend, except one. Which animal does not attend?
*The elephant. It's still in the refrigerator.
Q4. There is a river you must cross, but it is inhabited by crocodiles. How do you manage it?
*You swim across. All the crocodiles are at the animal conference.

Took me 3 or 4 days, maybe twenty minutes of staring at number copied into notepad each time and getting nowhere. My wife (the evil English major listed below) put me out of my misery by pointing out that looking at actual dice would help.

It's a neat problem, because there are so many "search spaces" for the answer. Does the order of dice matter ? How does the answer always come out odd, even or zero ?

I made what I'm sure is the common mistake of trying to devise an algorithm that included *all* the dice, although I couldn't see how that would guarantee an even/zero outcome set.

The professional thinker Edward deBono wrote about a training scenario for kids where he asked them to get across a room using two wooden planks and a rope. Most of the kids rigged up skis of some sort, using both planks to slowly cross the room. One child used just *one* plank and used the rope to "hop" across the room in just a few seconds. By not restricting his options to "must use all of the equipment provided", he came up with a better solution.

I think this problem is a very good example of that kind of thinking. Thanks for the reminder