Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

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.

GREAT BRAIN TEASER I LOOKED AT IT AT WORK FOR A WHILE IT DROVE ME NUTS SO I STOPPED. WHEN I GOT HOME I LOOKED AT IT AGAIN AND GOT IT IN ABOUT 10 MIN.

i got this in about half an hour to 45 minutes, i guess my simple little mind helped me out for once!!

aahh I spent about an hour last night trying to figure this out... I had this complex mathematical way of doing it that worked between 1/2 and 1/3 of the time.

But today it took me 3 tries and suddenly it was obvious!

fun game, so satisfying!

I guess I went through 100 tries. Thinking too hard. Now I'm off to work to see how many I can hook