Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

Got it after reading the Bill Gates story.

Got it after 15 rolls but I can't figure out what the name of the puzzle has to do with the solution.

Tricky. Entirely stymied by trying to learn using the applet, read the story and figured it out rather quickly --- but that says more about subtle giveaways in the story than it does about my smarts.

Damn... you folks just wasted 4 hours of my life.

Used a combination of an Excel spreadsheet with about 200 recorded trial runs and an HTML-based PATR site that I found I could rig to make a specified dice throw come up. Still took me four hours to do, though. (I guess you could call it the James T. Kirk Solution - reprogram the game until you get the results you want.)

Who do I speak to about getting those 4 hours of my life back?

It took me about five throws to figure it out -- I just wish I had five dice so I could wander around showing it to people.

Not too tricky then

The first time I saw this, it took me about 15-20 very frustrating minutes to figure it out. On the site where I first encountered the "Petals around the Rose" puzzle, the author noted that the longer it takes you to figure out, the smarter you are. I don't remember the URL, but according to him, 6-12th grade students consistently "got" it in 5-10 minutes, whereas most established scientists wrangled with this for days, some never getting it at all. It's just the way a brain tackles (in this case) a very simple problem. Smarter people tend to overthink the puzzle. As such, for the folks who got the puzzle on the third or fourth rolls.... umm... I hear the short bus is waiting for you

I'm usually terrible at logic puzzles but I got this one on the second throw. Rolled with a throw including 2 fives, then I tried to figure out how it got 8. Once I re-read the first paragraph about how the name was important I got it rigth away.

clever...

Hahaha. The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.