Solve this! How many petals around the roses?

[aaglo]

Hi!

Here's a nut for you to crack. How many petals around the roses:

http://personal.baker.edu/web2/cdavis09/roses.html

If it takes a lot of time, you can think of it as "that the smarter you are, the longer it takes to figure it out"

It took me almost 6 hours to figure this (well, I wasn't working on this all the time). Effective time was approximately one hour - with a little help from another forum

So, how did it go

[Drake Tungsten]

It doesn't work. There's no "roll" button.

[aaglo]

???

I see it fine...

[General Ludd]

Petals? Rose?

[Theben]

Re: Solve this! How many petals around the roses?

Originally posted by aaglo
Hi!

Here's a nut for you to crack. How many petals around the roses:

http://personal.baker.edu/web2/cdavis09/roses.html

If it takes a lot of time, you can think of it as "that the smarter you are, the longer it takes to figure it out"

It took me almost 6 hours to figure this (well, I wasn't working on this all the time). Effective time was approximately one hour - with a little help from another forum

So, how did it go

I got it on the 1st go. So apparently I'm a blundering idiot.

[Az]

This ain't easy. ( working on this for some 10 minutes now, with a pen and a paper )

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Osweld
Petals? Rose?

Oh, I get it. simple.

[Whaleboy]

*whaleboy feels inadequate*

[Monk]

AAAH it's making me crazy. My only consolation right now is that I'm more clever than Thebën.

[Monk]

When I discovered that a roll of 61666 equals no petals, almost all my theories were vaporized.

[aaglo]

The funny thing is, that the solution is so simple, that it's not obvious anymore...

When I got it, I thought that it was so stupid. Like it was a 'game' for ages 2-6...

[Japher]

I got it right the first time, I just guessed.

Then for the next 6 times I didn't get it right...

But I now get it right everytime, I figured it out

I guess I'm a moron

[Monk]

I eventually figured it out by thinking systematically enough. I reckon I could have played the game all night had it not been for a stroke of genius.

[Combat Ingrid]

It seems like how you describe this game is central to how quickly you can solve it. I gave it a few lame attempts without success and went to google to find the solution.

I didn't find the solution, only a slightly different introduction, but the hints it provided helped me to quickly figure it out