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

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-05-27 12:48am

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*

Post by **Zaia** » 2004-05-27 12:50am

Um, I got it on the first try [read: I got all three attempts right in the first grouping so I didn't bother to do it again]. And no, I didn't make that up. Sorry, Shin.

Edit: Clarified, I hope, because I confused myself with my own wording. Never a good sign.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2004-05-27 12:55am

Err...it took me about 3 tries...and got it.

It's a little weird but once you get what they are wanting you to see and make of it, it's not too hard.

Mad · Post by **Mad** » 2004-05-27 01:05am

I got it after a few rolls. I disagree with "the smarter you are the longer it takes." Of course, every time I hear that, I remember to think simple...

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2004-05-27 01:26am

half a fucking hour and I still haven't gotten it.

The two posts above mine saying it was easy wasn't that great either.....

Post by **haas mark** » 2004-05-27 01:26am

I got it on the first try, but didn't understand til the second.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-27 01:31am

I feel like a dumbass. And $5 says the answer is so blindingly obvious that I'll kick myself for not getting it sooner (assuming I ever do 'get it')

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2004-05-27 01:36am

Okay. I give up. Someone please PM me the answer before i go insane.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-27 01:44am

This is fucked: I thought I got it, and I chose correctly 3 times in a row, then on the fourth I used the EXACT SAME METHOD and came up wrong.

Medicus · Post by **Medicus** » 2004-05-27 01:47am

Took about a minute, the key is in the name of the game

Temjin · Post by **Temjin** » 2004-05-27 01:49am

I got it. It took me over 45 minutes, but I finally got it. I didn't even need help to do it.

McC · Post by **McC** » 2004-05-27 01:57am

Went to the page, read the instructions, read the background, studied the dice after clicking 'roll' once, and promptly figured it out

Neat trick, but pretty easy with a bit of thinking.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2004-05-27 02:02am

Deceptively simple yet makes no sense if you're looking for an actual pattern in the numbers, which is what you're given, yet the instructions don't talk about numbers being given. It's a stupid little "test". I would spoil this but it's so ridiculously pointless that you shouldn't even concern yourself with why it is the way it is.

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2004-05-27 02:15am

I was typing out a tirade on how this game had eluded me for a half hour when the answer hit me like a clue-by-four after having typed out one of the patterns I had seen (but not recognizing its significance until it was on "paper" in front of me). It was incredibly obvious in retrospect, and deviously simple.

A hint, for those still stuck: There can be a great deal of extraneous data in each roll. Value of a given roll to the total are determined by the game's name.

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-05-27 03:56am

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)

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-05-27 04:16am

InnerBrat wrote: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?

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

Bill Door · Post by **Bill Door** » 2004-05-27 04:45am

I got it first time.
I just sat and thought 'WTF?' for about 10 seconds; came up with a method to try and it worked first time. And continued to work

Zac Naloen · Post by **Zac Naloen** » 2004-05-27 04:47am

got it on thesecond try... its kinda obvious...

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2004-05-27 04:51am

Did it three times and decided to give up. Fuck this complicated simple bullshit.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2004-05-27 04:57am

From all the posts here I went into this thinking there is a trick to it.

I got it on the fifth try

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-05-27 05:46am

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.

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2004-05-27 05:52am

Finally got it after reading the clues on here.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-05-27 05:56am

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.

Soontir C'boath · Post by **Soontir C'boath** » 2004-05-27 06:05am

I got it on my fourth try, but I do not understand the concept behind it. I tried some more times trying to use the method I did to make it work but came out with nothing~Jason

InnerBrat · Post by **InnerBrat** » 2004-05-27 06:21am

I posted this on my LiveJournal and a friend became very interested.

this makes interesting reading.