Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

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Took me quite a while, and after going through some less great ideas I've finally solved this mystery. I bow to the mind who engineered this puzzle.

I kind of looked around the web for hints. One of the hints that I got didn't work, so I sat back and finally figured it out after an hour

Well, perhaps I cheated "a little" in the following sense. I was having a very hard time trying ever more complicated algorithms (for a few days ), obviously getting nowhere, even though the fact that it is simple is given away in the story.

Then I saw the response times (and just those!) of the people that solved it and ... just sat back, looked at the problem in a completely differrent way and it immediately came to me

And now I must keep the vows of the fraternity and not divulge the secret to ... my fiancee

Less than 5 minutes

I rolled about 10 times and had nothing before I sat back and really thought about the problem. Then I got it. Cute.

20 minutes over 2 days. I knew the idea early on, but took a bit to put it together. Passed on to colleagues at work to kill time while on un-stimulating conference calls.

it took me 30 minutes to solve this thing...
not too fast...not too slow

Had several false starts, but finally managed to get the puzzle. Well done.

Wonderful puzzle! Took me 6 rolls to finally get it! (And with no brute force )