"Petals around the Roses" - Can you figure it out?

Anhaga · Post by **Anhaga** » 2004-05-27 06:48am

Stofsk wrote:Mathematics was my worse subject in school, while Literature was my best.
And I haven't figured out this "Petal around the rose" shit.

I'm awful at Maths and I'm studying English and I haven't got it. Admittedly that was before reading the hints on this site- I was trying to look for a numerical pattern or something of the sort. Maybe I'll try it again.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-05-27 06:57am

Robert Treder wrote:
2000AD wrote:Finally got it after reading the clues on here.
I got it, but I don't think I get what the name has to do with it.

I assume that:
[size=0]The rose is the dot in the middle of the dice and the petals are the dots around it, hence why 5 counts as 4, 3 counts as 2 and eveything else as 0 because they dont have roses.[/size]

that system worked for me.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-27 07:10am

Motherfucker.

I can't believe I didn't get it. And I can't believe I wasted so much fucking time thinking about something so incredibly stupid.

Perfect end to a perfect day...

[EDIT] Now that I've had a chance to calm down, I can honestly say that it is pretty clever - in a stupid sort of way.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2004-05-27 10:29am

That took me all of two seconds to figure out... maybe it's something to do with me being more of a visual person.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-05-27 11:41am

Shinova wrote:http://personal.baker.edu/web2/cdavis09/roses.html#game

It took me some thirty minutes of feeling like a complete idiot to finally figure out the game. How long does it take you?

EDIT:

To Spanky: And no Space Cadet jokes!!!!

*raises knives threatningly*

*sheepish*

I got it first go, and I resent the good Dr's implication on my intelligence!

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-05-27 11:44am

InnerBrat wrote:Got it immediately. I just went to the site and got it stright away.

I think it might be my literariness that helped me, Z and GR get it - it's not the "smarter you were, the longer it took to figure it out." - which is bollocks, but that the more numerical in your thinking you are. The four of us that seemed to get it quickly are creative types who read a lot. I'm guessing those of you who took a while are more mathematical in your thinking, no?

(the odd thing is that my brain is actually becoming more literary. i bet this would have taken me hours in school)

I disagree with that hypothesis darling. I mean I do read a lot, but I am definetly a maths head, my spelling for example is very poor, but my maths skills are above average (or were, you know what I mean).

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-05-27 11:47am

Crown wrote:I disagree with that hypothesis darling. I mean I do read a lot, but I am definetly a maths head, my spelling for example is very poor, but my maths skills are above average (or were, you know what I mean).

Fair enough.
I'm not a psychologist, I'm a real scientist.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-05-27 11:49am

InnerBrat wrote:
Crown wrote:I disagree with that hypothesis darling. I mean I do read a lot, but I am definetly a maths head, my spelling for example is very poor, but my maths skills are above average (or were, you know what I mean).
Fair enough.
I'm not a psychologist, I'm a real scientist.

My sister is a neuro-psycnologis/phisiologist and she resents you. I am an engineer, and I mock you!

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-05-27 11:51am

Crown wrote:My sister is a neuro-psycnologis/phisiologist and she resents you. I am an engineer, and I mock you!

I get to play with dinosaurs and I can spell. I don't care.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2004-05-27 11:52am

InnerBrat wrote:
Crown wrote:My sister is a neuro-psycnologis/phisiologist and she resents you. I am an engineer, and I mock you!
I get to play with dinosaurs and I can spell. I don't care.

I get to play with high performance technologies and blow shit up. I win!

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-05-27 11:57am

Crown wrote:
InnerBrat wrote:
Crown wrote:My sister is a neuro-psycnologis/phisiologist and she resents you. I am an engineer, and I mock you!
I get to play with dinosaurs and I can spell. I don't care.
I get to play with high performance technologies and blow shit up. I win!

And I get to screw around with other people's money , neeneer, neener

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-05-27 12:08pm

Fuck, I honestly can't for the fucking life of me figure out just how the fucking hell I'm supposed to figure this fucking little piece of fucking shit out. I simply have no fucking clue how to "count the cunt-ass fucking petals around the bloody communist roses," for Christ's Sake. Somebody please just fucking tell me: I'm no longer amused by this "game."

It of course doesn't help that for some reason the display is screwed up and doesn't correctly display all the numbers in the answer field like it should. There may be like one number in the correct place, say an 8, but with a partial 1 and when highlighted and dragged a 4 appears above the end of the answer sentence...

J · Post by J » 2004-05-27 12:17pm

It took about 10 rolls of the dice before I spotted the pattern, and another 5 or so to confirm it. If you want to speed it up just go "roll", "check" without entering any numbers into the box.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-05-27 12:19pm

gah. after 2000ADs post on it i finally figured it out. now i kinda feel foolish at how incredibly simple and pointless this is.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2004-05-27 01:33pm

Here's how it works: only the dice with a dot in the center count. These are the "roses". The dots around the center dot are the petals. Thus 5 has four petals, 3 has two, and 1 has zero. Add all these to find the answer.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-05-27 01:39pm

XaLEv wrote:Here's how it works: only the dice with a dot in the center count. These are the "roses". The dots around the center dot are the petals. Thus 5 has four petals, 3 has two, and 1 has zero. Add all these to find the answer.

....

I hate these things...

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-05-27 01:48pm

Got it on the first try. By pure guess. I couldn't see any roses so i just put "0" and got it correct.

Edit: Reading the other responses it now makes sense.

McC · Post by **McC** » 2004-05-27 02:22pm

You know, it's interesting to see people's reactions...I wonder if Petals isn't more of a psychological evaluation tool than a simple game

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2004-05-27 03:38pm

I got it.. though it really doesn't make all that sense.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-05-27 04:40pm

Took me three rolls, about three minutes or so. I switched gears from "fucking complicated" to "fucking simple" after the second. Oddly, I got the first one right off the bat through sheer chance.

Bob the Gunslinger · Post by **Bob the Gunslinger** » 2004-05-27 04:53pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Fuck, I honestly can't for the fucking life of me figure out just how the fucking hell I'm supposed to figure this fucking little piece of fucking shit out. I simply have no fucking clue how to "count the cunt-ass fucking petals around the bloody communist roses," for Christ's Sake. Somebody please just fucking tell me: I'm no longer amused by this "game."

It of course doesn't help that for some reason the display is screwed up and doesn't correctly display all the numbers in the answer field like it should. There may be like one number in the correct place, say an 8, but with a partial 1 and when highlighted and dragged a 4 appears above the end of the answer sentence...

Well, for one, the title should be count the petals around the ROSES, plural. Read the posts above for the actual answer.

And BTW, I had the hypothesis right after the first roll, but due to a counting error thought I had messed up. That took me a while to figure out. (I got 13 when the correct answer was 12. Looking back later, I realized my mistake.) And I'm a Math major/graduate, so I don't see how that is a negative.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-05-27 05:01pm

Robert Treder wrote:That's fucking stupid. I can't believe I wasted ten minutes of my life on that. Watching an entire season of "American Idol" is precisely forty-seven thousand times more important than spending those ten minutes on that game.

I concur.

Trytostaydead · Post by **Trytostaydead** » 2004-05-27 06:01pm

XaLEv wrote:Here's how it works: only the dice with a dot in the center count. These are the "roses". The dots around the center dot are the petals. Thus 5 has four petals, 3 has two, and 1 has zero. Add all these to find the answer.

ROFL. I took a different interpertation of what it means by "petals around the rose" and developed my own little algorithim that works but is completey different than that.

Tzeentch · Post by **Tzeentch** » 2004-05-27 06:04pm

Bob the Gunslinger wrote:And BTW, I had the hypothesis right after the first roll, but due to a counting error thought I had messed up. That took me a while to figure out. (I got 13 when the correct answer was 12. Looking back later, I realized my mistake.) And I'm a Math major/graduate, so I don't see how that is a negative.

I had a similar problem - I was definately on the right track for quite some time, but it took forever for me to actually work out the answer.

This game is like a visual version of Snaps.

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2004-05-27 07:02pm

Trytostaydead wrote:ROFL. I took a different interpertation of what it means by "petals around the rose" and developed my own little algorithim that works but is completey different than that.

What was your interpretation? I took the one mentioned above (and also thought that "roses," plural, would've fit better... but perhaps being too easy).

By the way, here a quick PHP version I popped out earlier today... I plan on making it look nicer later, but that works for now.

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