This took me 11 tries before I finally figured it out. Tell me what you think of Petals Around the Rose (http://crux.baker.edu/cdavis09/roses.html). I'll give you a hint: If you try to look for an algorithm, you're thinking way too much. Look at the answer: Is it odd or even? Why is the game called "Petals Around the Rose"? You don't need much more than simple arithmatic.

The first one who figures out the answer and can explain his reasoning for it will get a special title! Final note, if you've done this before, be a good sport and don't post. Don't cheat using Google either. It makes the game less interesting.

Palimax got the answer!

sonofabitch it took me 10 mins to figure it out. :(

It had taken Dr. Duke well over a year himself, and he would always explain that the smarter you were, the longer it took to figure it out.


So I'm dumb because I figured that crap out instantly? It would figure it'd take a college professor to come up with something like that. :)

took me 5 or 6 tries when i did it for the first time. Just had to think laterally.

Yeah, I must be one dumb mfer if the professor is right. I got it on the third roll. The name gives it away.

It doesn't make sense to say someone is smart or dumb because of how long it took to figure that out. It just shows a difference in how you think.

Haha, apparently a lot of other people were annoyed by that comment too: http://www.po-mo.us/petals/comments2005.htm

Pfft, he was just ashamed that he was a doctor and took one year to figure it out, had it on the 2nd try. =/

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2rd try.

Though I had the advantage that I already met a similar but more complex game named "eskimos, iceholes and polar bears" while hanging out with some Mensa folks.

Woa that was to easy. :(