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Glenn Overman  |
Location:
Jacksonville, FL
USA
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 Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:38 PM
Extremely logical.
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Lee Chan  |
Location:
Oakland, CA
USA
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 #7629
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:02 PM
I got this immediately, what's so hard? The name of the game explains all. Guess that's why I'm not Bill Gates. Plus, I can spell.
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:42 PM
Ali Mages said:
It isn't that he can't spell, it's that he heard "pedals" instead of "petals". And people who can actually do complex math problems expect them.
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| David V. White |
Location:
Orinda, CA
USA
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:23 PM
I am always hooked on puzzles. And I'm amused by the comment that "the smarter you are, the longer it takes". Everyone gets uptight about that!
I hate people who say they immediately figured it out on the first roll.
I saw the light after about 10 minutes on the 13th roll in the Gates story. I had to focus on the name of the game to get it. It was a challenge not to just Google the answer on the Net.
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| Tom Ackley |
Location:
Tulsa, Ok.
USA
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#7627
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:22 PM
what fun!
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| Zardotz |
Location:
CA
USA
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#7626
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:19 PM
Took about 10 minutes. Got the link from Jon's column. 
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| Brett Peterson |
Location:
SLC, Utah
USA
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 #7625
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 02:08 PM
I had my son introduce me to this game. What a fun game.
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| RL Smith |
Location:
SF Bay area
USA
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#7624
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:14 PM
I see from the N. Cal posts today we all owe Jon thanks for the link. I took 14 rolls to get it and only when I jotted down 3 of the rolls. I can't conceive of anybody remembering the rolls like in the BGates article. That was demoralizing.
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| Paul Rubin |
Location:
San Francisco CA |
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:04 PM
When my son got it, I had to keep trying. It took about 25 tries - including some dismal and embarrassing disappointments because of counting errors!
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| Ctein |
Location:
California
USA
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#7622
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 12:02 PM
Cool! Took me about five minutes. Actually, it was reading the Bill Gates story that did it for me. Not the story, but seeing a bunch of throws laid out in front of me at one time. Subconscious pattern recognition? Mebbe. (I *knew* it wasn't higher math -- figured out scheme to solve the problem mathematically very quickly, but what's the fun in that?)
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:46 PM
Ali Mages said:
How did you figure out a mathematical problem very early? I was sitting there doing all sorts of math, even though I knew it probably wasn't some sort of math problem. I was doing another link besides this article: crux.baker.edu/cdavis09/rose.html and its a flash game where you can roll and it infinitely gives you answers. I didn't get it until I had that and the article. Even then it took me a while.
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| Tom Caswell |
Location:
Edmonton AB
Canada
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#7621
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Wednesday, 30 August 2006 11:51 AM
what was so difficult about this?
I got it the first and every time, within seconds of veiwing the puzzle.
Wednesday, 30 August 2006 03:16 PM
Lee Chan said:
Guess we view the world in the same way - at least these kind of puzzles.
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