Petals Around the Rose: Fraternity Register

Its really not that hard, I got it right on my first try. All you have to do is understand that you dont need to think.

it took me like 5 mins to catch on to a rough idea. had to go do something, then when i tried again i tried my second hypothesis which was close to my first. NAILED IT!!!! Makes me feel smart!!! HAHAHA!!!

This took me 4 days. My head hurts. You don't want to see the lists of numbers I've scratched down looking for patterns.

I tried it for about 10 minutes yesterday, then the answer came to me after some thought later that evening. I tried my solution out today, and I was right. I'd like to say it came to me "in a flash of insight", but really the solution didn't. It simply came to me after I considered the evidence that had been shown me, then visualized the puzzle in my head, and narrowed the solution set down based on the puzzle as visualized. Once the solution set was sufficiently narrow, iterating through the possibe solutions led easily to the realization of which solution was correct. Going back to the puzzle web site to re-try the puzzle was just a verification step.

The most important clues for me were:
*The answers are always even
*The answers are always in the range 0-20, with many more occuring toward the low end of the range.
*Dice are used, only one face is shown, and die faces are symmetric by rotation.
*There are many dice throws which differ by only one dice, but which have the same answer.

The above clues eliminate a lot of possible answers. The final clue is the name of the puzzle itself.

On other sites, some people who have solved the puzzle seem rather indignant about having solved it so quickly! To them I say, the beauty of the puzzle needs to be found in the puzzle itself...

it took me 2 mins!!!

This left me confused for all of two minutes. After getting the secret, I sent this to my co-workers and friends.
Of all I sent it to, only 3 have gotten the secret, and one of those had it in less time than I had discovered it.

I had been trying to figure out the formula I was sure I was missing, and was about to give up and look up a spoiler site, when someone said "it's all in the name", and it clicked. I feel like a complete idiot now

My twelve-year-old daughter only got it wrong once. From her second try forward, she had it down. She thought it was funny. I watched her do it a couple of times, though, and I got it. I don't think it has anything to do with intelligence. I think it has more to do with how broadly we think, not how deeply we think. It is almost a left-brain vs. right-brain type of thing.

This is one of those "forehead slap" moments....

Very silly indeed!