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Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register
| Wednesday, 13 May 2026 09:11 AM |
 
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| If you have truly qualified to join the Fraternity of Petals Around the Rose by solving this challenge, please make sure you sign the register. |
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Ross MacLeod  |
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  #2550
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 Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:43 PM
I got it 2nd time. It is fairly logical.
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| Nicola's Dad |
Location:
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#2549
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:37 PM
The name gave it away, still good fun while it lasted.......................
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Skye  |
Location:
Sydney
Australia
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#2548
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:19 PM
 It was good fun! Looks confusing until the answer is there staring you in the face. Took a couple of turns but got it!
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| Andy Walker |
Location:
Glasgow, UK
United Kingdom
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 #2547
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:18 PM
Someone said it was so much easier after reading the Bill Gates article. I read the article and got very little out of it - it was only after meditating on the name and nature of the game that I suddenly clicked.
I can attest to the hypnotic power of the dice: someone posted a link to another version of this in my regular IRC channel, and within half an hour half the channel's occupants were trying to solve or had solved the puzzle.
One got it the first time he saw the dice and heard the name, and another's mother came up the stairs, read over her shoulder and solved the puzzle in six tries (after she'd been thinking about it for half an hour...)
Love the Javascript implementation, too.
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:09 PM
ok, and 2 minutes of thinking about the name revealed the significance
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005 02:05 PM
took me about 20 minutes. Even knowing how it works, I don't understand why the name is significant.
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005 01:59 PM
Wow... it took me a while to figure this out, and once I did, I felt really, really stupid for not figuring it out sooner.
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005 01:19 PM
As soon as I read the article and the instructions, I had a theory which proved to be correct. This game made my day!
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| Aks |
Location:
NYC
USA
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#2542
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:19 AM
Friends brought this up over lunch and I hadn't a clue for like an hour. Came back and played online, got it in 5 minutes. Its all in visualization man, seeing it helps !
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| Rick Banerjee |
Location:
Bangalore
India
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#2541
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Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:05 AM
This was really great fun. I took some number of hours trying to fit arithmetic formulae for series and sequences, coming up with complicated rules to get the number of petals around the rose.
Finally, reading the blog post carefully gave me enought insight to crack it open!
And as I sit here in the middle of the night, smug in the knowledge that I am part of this fraternity, I marvel at the brilliance of the inventor. Such a simple thing hidden in so much complexity.
Truly, it is a lesson in problem solving. Look for simpler solutions to your problems.
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