Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

I spent about 20 minutes without any luck on this a month ago, and gave up; today I accidentally browsed my way to the same website and got it in about 2 minutes! Something just clicked! Life is sweet and I am going to take next year off as a reward to myself!

Petals Around The Rose!

after about 30-45 minutes of pondering and looking over comments on the game and pondering some more and trying different equations, i happened to considering the name of the game for about the millionth time and it suddenly dawned on me how simple it really was and how overly analytical i was being. The answer is so brilliantly simple!!!!
Renee W.

All about the petals

Congratulations! We have another Potentate of the Rose.

Okay, I got it in like 10 minutes....what does that say about me?

Spent 2 hours last night, could not get it. Showed it to my son, the math whizz, who spent another 2 hours working out formulae, we still could not get it.
Turned on this morning to try agin and got it in 10 seconds. D'oh!

Wow, Took awhile on two different nights, but when it hit I see it. Not sure if I did it mathematically or not but I see the rhythm/pattern. Of course I will need to share the frustration with others

I got it, took me 30 min. But I got it!

Cool puzzle

Seems exceptionally easy once you understand it, until then, it just seems impossible... Thank you

it is hard but at the end it is all worth it!