Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

I figured it out very quickly once I played it with dice instead of just looking at numbers.

Is it December 6 where you are?
Then it's my birthday!
(Before you ask, 79!
This is one of those diabolical puzzles that is so obvious it escapes detection by all the Ph.D. types, but is instantly solvable by file clerks, mail boys, etc.
I think women have an edge in solving it, due to the way they look at things . . .

Gene

Did it! I needed to read that article on Bill Gates first, look at the various dice rolls and the answers. Its so simple when you realise it!

it took me about 30mins. woohooo!!! finally figured it out

"What forest?"

First try about and hour, went to bed next morning 20 minutes..

The "rose" is the center dot on any face that has one (i.e. 1, 3, and 5) and the "petals" are all dots around it -- the 1 face has no petals, the 3 face has two petals and the 5 face has four petals. The die faces without center dots (i.e. 2, 4, and 6) do not count. Counting the total petal dots yields that round's answer.

Alternately, one may sum the faces of odd dice, and then subtract the number of them. Thus, in a roll of 1, 3, 4, 5, and 3, the odd faces sum to 12. There are four odd dice, so the solution is 12-4, or 8.

got this in 7 minutes

I confess it only took two dice rolls.