Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

Not too impressed. Too easy.

Took me 5 minutes, i guees i'm used to, seeing the non logical part of stuff.

took me about 50 minutes to figure this out while watching tellie, pretty good puzzle, began to go at this mathematically and then I thought outside the box and voila =)

That wasn't particularily satisfying.

Amazing how you can tie your head in knots over the simplest of things.

I tried polynomial expansions, strange sequences of operators, counting between primes, adding together digits, etc. All to no avail.

It's amazing how you can look so hard and not see what is plainly in view.

Long live the Rose!

Got it after two failed attempts, but I think the intro to the game gives away too many hints. It probably would've taken longer if I hadn't had the help of knowing that the name of the game was so directly related to the answer of the puzzle.

Took me an hour or so to find the answer. I made the mistake of ignoring the dice and compiling a list of solutions using numbers. I generated a couple of algorithms that were right a cetain percentage of the time.

I found the answer when I was reading the web page about how Bill Gates did it. When I realized that it had to be very simple algorithm that someone could do in their head with out much thought and most likely used a visual hint. When I saw a couple of solutions on that web page all next to each I figured it out right away.

I was annoyed I didn't figure it out using my original brute force math approach. I skipped a whole class of simple equations.

I have a smart freind that showed me this becuase he couldn't figure it out. it took me about 3 trys before i got it. It made me feel good until he said the simpler your mind was, the quicker you figure it out. Now that i know it i have to agree with him.

Was stumped at first, and was worried I was going to take a long time where others have quickly discovered the secret. However, after about 10 minutes (8 rolls + a few to make sure I was correct) I solved the puzzle.

A very pleasing solution too. Great puzzle.

After 30 minutes of trying to work this out, I put it away and came back to in a few hours later and figured it out in 5 minutes.

What a great reminder that was that the problems we are faced with every day sometimes need to be put down and looked at with a fresh mind.