Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

Wouldn't work on Firefox for me ...

Worked with Firefox for me. Fun, I'll have to dig out some dice and mess with co-workers.

I really liked this puzzle. Thanks for the entertaining site!

Btw, now that I've solved the puzzle I expect my fraternity secret-decoder ring to be arriving in the mail any day now!

I figured the puzzle out while reading the article about Bill Gates- now if I could only figure out why the applet doesn't work in my browser, I would be a true potentate!

the more you think about it the farther away from the answer you end up

read about Bill Gates encounter with PATR here but had to find another java applet that worked with my Mac OSX Mozilla:
http://www.freeworldgroup.com/games/roses/
it took around 20 minutes of a lunch break for it to reveal itself but once you get it it seems ridiculously simple...

It took me a couple of rolls, but I got it. Can't wait to stump my friends.

Well that was cute.
It's a good way to beat into one's skull that it is very important to look at things in more than one way.

This game is a great indication of the thought processes of certain types of people. As an engineer, my thought processes led me down paths that were inevitably dead ends. Our skill set is varied enough between abstract and concrete that as one avenue of attack failed, thought processes shifted and the solution immediately popped into my head. I'll definitely have to remember this one.

This didn't work with Firefox. A nice puzzle, requires one to listen to the instructions.

Thanks!

Sam