Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

uh, so where do I get certified as a memeber? Not to brag or anything, but I was wrong on my first guess, and then I figured it out. I haven't been wrong since. Clever trick, though.

I thought it was a lot harder than that...

yea, it was fun

Well, they say that smarter people take longer to get this. Guess I'm not too smart. It took me about twenty rolls of the dice before I was sure I had it (usuing a computer program to tell me the answer to the rolls).

This is great fun, and reminded me why I liked math and puzzles.

Took me a total of less than 4 hours to figure it out. Including approximately two hours about a month ago and then less than two hours today. It was bugging me that my little brother figured it out in a hour and a half, so I decided to start again today. It feels good to know but i felt robbed when I figured it out.

I racked my brains trying to figure this thing out. I walked away from it for a while, and had the numbers floating around in my head, and the answer smacked me in the face. So I ran back to my computer and pulled the game back up, and sure enough, I'd figured it out.

Great stuff!

Well i finally got it after 15 mins of thinkin..but the name of the game is really important..

I won't reiterate the argument of whether or not the amount of time spend arriving at the answer has a direct association with intelligence; however, I have a MS in Computer Science on which I initially defaulted in trying to solve the puzzle. Like the rest of the 'logically' or 'analytically minded' who posted- this put me in an infinite loop of frustration. After an hour of thinking it was a derivation of the Fibonnaci Sequence ( I remembered from undergrad that FS governs the amount of leaves on a tree or something of natural growth), I researched roses and thier stages of growth. Although I learned how to keep Aphids off of new blooms, this too got me no where. Then I came back to ...."how we define the problem"....so, how do we define the rose?

::Sigh:: Yeah, I finally got this about 20 mind-numbing, frustrating minutes after my girlfriend showed it to me. Weeeee.... That was fun!

Took about an hour of thinking about it after my wife showed me, then 15 minutes to write a program to do it and then a few minutes to reduce it to a single line equation.

I think the issue isn't that 'smarter' poeple take longer, but that more 'analytical' people take longer. I spent the most of the first hour spinning thorugh algorithms, but then thought about the name and went looking for flowers! Once I stopped thinking too much, the answer popped right up.