Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

Now I finally see how "around" is significant but I still don't see how it resembles a rose!

Would never have gotten it without the hints about the name, though.

My friend told me about this in math class because he was so pissed off that he couldn't figure it out. I'm not sure if he even has yet to this day figured it out but I solved it in 28 min and I'm going to enjoy seeing him squirm as he stries to use every mathematical function under the sun to solve this teaser.

As a Mensan I started doing patterns, nothing jived. Then simple garden logic took over and I was in. About 2 minutes.

Chanced upon your page...Toyed with it unsuccessfully...muttered...looked beyond mathmatical formulae....no luck ....cursed again....why should I invest time in solving a paradigm of some unknown gamester? BAH! Later that evening, I returned to the puzzle's scene with the sole intent of showing the puzzle to my wife, who enjoys such torture. I intended only to log on and let her at it. Stupid game. As I waited there for her, I looked at the monitor, then....I SAW it. I knew it was some such nonsense, but ...I didn't so much "solve" it, as discovered it. Hmmmmm..... Advice: Let your mind ruminate on it subconciously...then return triumphant! suffer the thorns to savor the beauty of the rose.

learned this "game" over 18 years ago... often played it with my Gifted & Talented students... most of them got it, too... and then created their own "games" to challenge each other...

At first I kept saying, "What Rose?". Then I stopped and read the article about Bill Gates and seeing all those rolls in a row I finally grasped the concept.

Took about 15 minutes - not sure what that means - smart or not so?

I did it in bout 5-10 mins

ok let's play!

I feel really stupid because I was thinking about it completely mathematically. When you've done math through calculus everything becomes a math problem.

took me an hour to figure it out. I drew a picture of a flower and then it hit me. I felt so dumb that I didnt realise what to do earlier