Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

After 30 minutes with my notebook under a bodhi tree, I reached nirvana

took about an hour - thinking too mathematically

Yay! I'm told this message is too short.

So simple I'm amazed I ever figured it out

After reading a couple of comments, and remembering that everyone was saying that the NAME OF THE GAME was important, I figured it out. For about 15 minutes I was confused, then it just hit me. Neat game.

Took me probably 20-30 minutes. Don't know how many rolls -- I was playing with a Flash version of the game.

I spent 15-25 on it minutes late last night, and then 5 minutes today, after caffeine and with a couple of lucky rolls.

I had no inkling that the name of the game was significant until after I had figured the game out, which made it much more rewarding.

I guess I was lucky - took me four rolls to get the algorithm, then 10 more to be confirmed as a Potentate of the Rose.

The misdirection idea is used in many other puzzles - and it is usually the smart people who get caught out by this, doing deep mathematical analyses of irrelevant detail.

I think reading Martin Gardner's Scientific American articles probably improved my problem identifying abilities.

pgrb

total rolls = 42
# correct = 14
best run = 10

Congratulations! We have another Potentate of the Rose.

I thoroughly enjoyed this.

Interesting... It took me about 30 minutes (with interruptions from my family, today is the Mother's Day).

The trouble was not think in a Math based result.

Got it! Took me a few tries, I was trying to decipher it mathematically =)