Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

blasted problem took up all of sunday lunchbut i got it in the end

I first saw this in a Psych class in college years ago; it was presented as a game that Field Marshall Montgomery used to evaluate the potential candidates for promotion to his staff. Seems Monty would gather the officers, play the game until the first "winner" caought on, then dismiss the rest his staff to swear in the new "Knight of the Rose."

Took me about three to four hours of working through it. I came close early on and dismissed it.

A friend that is fond of frustrating me with puzzles sent this to me today.

It took me about 4-5 minutes of trying all ways the dice or subsets of them could add up to "the petals of the rose" in ever more convoluted ways. When I got to a point where nothing I tried worked, I was enlightened

I tried all manner of mathematical manipulation for about an hour. Then stopped walked away for 30 min. and the answer was obvious. Felt really stupid.

Got this in 7 tries and in 4 minutes

Did this a while ago. Didn't realize I could sign up for this thing until about five minutes ago.

Did it long ago, in seventh grade.
My Algebra teacher was so funny, and for one of his projects, he gave our class this for extra credit. It was great!

Figured it out in about 15 minutes.

Katie

I was introduced to this about two weeks ago and finally began concentrating on it today. It took me about twenty to thirty minutes to finally click together. So.....if the smarter you are the harder it is, does that mean that I'm pretty dumb?