Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

Yippee!
You want to kick yourself when you finally get it! It took me about 20 minutes. A math major I know is still working on the damn thing!

it took me about 25 minutes to figure out but it was worth every second. try as hard as you can to figure this out it feels so good when you know how to go it

6 min

the blasted thing took me about thirty minutes and I only got it when those damn finger counting classmates of mine left. It is so obvious!

It was fun! I felt really satisfied when I solved it.

Haha Im a genius....
You must think to yorself : waht does the name mean?

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