Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

It's too simple! Thankfully it only took me about 10 minutes to solve, but I could easily have been looking at it for hours.

Great puzzle. Got it after three failed attempts. It's good to be forced to think laterally, I probably lucked out because i was feeling lazy about working out the needlessly complex agorithms that where trying to present themselves to me, and rather than go for the bait i just stared at the instructions until.... voila!

I was supposed to be working, but meh,I couldn't stand not figuring this one out. Took me a while thought. :P

Well, it took me about an hour. I was feeling quite pleased until I saw some people got it in 4 minutes!

Took me half an hour of maths. After that I started concentrating on why the name is important. Good thing I didn't google for the answer...

Got it in 25 rolls. Neat puzzle, the kind designed to drive grown men insane; glad I figured it out before I went crazy!

I came across this page late last night. Being a physicist, I thought of a sophisticated mathematical model to determine the algorithm. It certainly would have worked, but required a lot of input data to fix parameters. Even then, it would only have provided a predictive formula to arrive at the correct answers -- some inductive "zen" would still be needed to connect the rule to an elegant and explanitory solution that the puzzle's inventor no doubt had in mind.

While thinking about this in bed, I wondered if it would be possible to solve the problem without any data at all. If so, I thought, the only things left to go on would be the even-ness of the outcomes and the name of the game, "Petals around the rose..." The insight came immediately thereafter!

took me ages, but i got it in the end, love the puzzle, know the answer, thank god i figured it out before 1am!!!

Fun Game. Took me a few rolls to figure out but I got it.

Took me about 20 minutes to solve.