Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

Well, rather than take a blow to my ego, I stared at the screen for some minutes after reading the description. When I finally decided I had an idea what the puzzle was about, I made my first guess.

It and the next seven were correct.

Maybe it's all in the mysticism of the live presentation, but something about it seemed all too obvious.

I had fun, but didn't enjoy the red herring of dice colors (why does the set of colors used vary randomly? pick one collection of dice and stick to it, at least).

Took me a couple of rolls... nice teaser

The first time I saw this game played it was with a deck of cards, and was called "Bears come in pairs around the waterhole".
I've seen it played with either 3 or 5 cards.

Wow did I over thing this way to long

Thinking simply is a strong suit of mine

A good trick though I have made nothing of the importance of the name of the game... wasn't involved in the solution for me.

I wasn't able to get the javascript app to work so I clicked through to the description of Bill Gates' attempt. (I'm using an old version of Mozilla until I can upgrade glibc) I solved it from the examples. It took me about 10 minutes of work with 5 minutes, a 10 minute interruption and another 5 minutes trying. I think the interruption helped tremendously.

Took about ten minutes. Writing proofs (e.g. geometric) was always one of my strong points, so I just started mentally listing what information I knew, and the solution just presented itself. The name of the game is very important, indeed.

I thought about it for 5 minutes after reading the instructions then tried the javascript app. I got it on the first try. What gave it away? I was thinking about doing all kinds of odd analysis techniques but you said the name was important. Then you actually included in the app the images of the dice. I figured you wouldn't do that unless the way the dice actually looked was important. The trick was in the way they looked, not the numbers. Anyway, after that it was easy.

simon

I got it on the first try. At least I think I did. It said ***YES*** in th results window.

It that good?