Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

yay! i'm in the club.
i love a good club.

way too easy.......one look and solved in less then 10 seconds.......I must be real stupid.

I solved it on the 4th roll. From the beginning, I thought the name was strange and got stuck thinking about that strange name. I kept asking, "Why is it called Petals Around the Rose?" I didn't even attempt to solve any of the rolls. I just looked at the rolls and thought about the strange name. Then on the 4th roll, I "saw" it. Pretty cool. My 13 year old son is trying to solve it now. He asked if he could simplify it by using less than 5 dice. Of course, I said yes. Simplifying a problem is one of the first steps in problem solving. He is stuck on the name and keeps asking why is it called Petals Around the Rose.

wow this was easy. it took me like 10 mins to figure it out, but when i did it made me feel like a complete retard . OMG its so d*** easy. have fun trying ur math solutions!!!

It took me 4 damn hours over a period of two days. It's hard once you get into advanced math courses, you think too hard. Whatever. If you want proof as to my solving it, the answer to 62341 is 2 and the answer to 13342 is 4.

I must be real stupid, I feel bad. I got it under 5 minutes.

I got it 2nd time. It is fairly logical.

The name gave it away, still good fun while it lasted.......................

It was good fun! Looks confusing until the answer is there staring you in the face. Took a couple of turns but got it!

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.