Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

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?

The name of the game pretty much gives it away... Got it after reading the Bill Gates story.

Javascript version doesn't work in Galeon 1.3.17

This one took a while to figure out. I knew the name was significant, and through that fact I *almost* got it after a few rolls, but not quite, and it took me about 20 minutes to figure out what I was missing.

And yes, it took a *very* conscious effort to not overthink this problem. That's why it took so long. I kept thinking more complicated stuff, then consciously thinking "This isn't hard, the potentate rolling the dice can figure it out in a second or two, keep it simple!". Then finally I got it.

Fun stuff. I'm probably going to get some dice to show my dormmates.

Your page doesn't work in Firefox 1.0 PR, but I got it after looking at some example rolls on another site. Cheers!

Got in about 5 rolls.