Petals Around the Rose: Solve the Puzzle and Enjoy!

[matthyaouw]

http://crux.baker.edu/cdavis09/roses.html

This puzzle was brought to my attention. I currently have no idea how on Earth to figure it out, so don't ask for any help. Enjoy!

 

[mattmns]

Ok I think I got it:

Add the die up this way

1 = 0
2 = 0
3 = 2
4 = 0
5 = 4
6 = 0

so that:

5 5 5 5 5 = 4+4+4+4+4=20
1 6 5 3 4 = 0+0+4+2+0 = 6
1 1 1 1 1 = 0+0+0+0+0 = 0
4 6 6 6 2 = 0+0+0+0+0 = 0
4 3 6 2 3 = 0+2+0+0+2 = 4

 

[msmith12]

I found this game a while ago, it took me a little while to get, but read the white part for a way to figure it out...

just think about the name of the game... petals around the rose... what do dice have to do with petals on a rose? more specifically, are there any numbers on a die that look like they could be petals on a rose? and if so, how many petals are on each of these?

 

[Bartholomew]

I figured this thing out the first time I clicked "check."

 

[gravenewworld]

Supposedly, the longer the puzzle takes you the smarter you are supposed to be, which is complete BS I think..

 

[Icebreaker]

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.

:tongue: :tongue:

 

[mattmns]

lol, I agreed with that longer it takes you thing at the start, but after solving it in about 20mins I thought it was bs too

 

[Icebreaker]

Ok I figured it out thanks to that hint by msmith12. However, the question defines "pedals around THE rose", and not "total pedals around the roses". Therefore it is flawed.

 

[Briggs]

Once you figure it out you think how stupid you must be not to have seen it before. I was trying out all sorts of mathematical ways of solving it when all you have to do is just look at it to solve it :rofl:

 

[Bartholomew]

That is a little odd, icebreaker, but perhaps each of the dice counts the number of petals of a particular color, so die 1 (if it has a rose shape on it) shows only red petals, die 2 shows only a certain shade of pink petals, etc. down to die 5 which shows only white petals.

 

[vikasj007]

well, i was able to sole it immidiately, but that was bcoz that i had already solved this before. actually i had tried to solve it but failed, then i had posted it right here in the brain teasers section and got the answer.





and from that i conclude that whenever you are not able to solve any problem, just post it here!

 

[Asphyxi8]

Hahahahaha. I can't do it because my little sister already played it with me. I got stuck up on Genghis Khan and it took me about an hour. :rofl:

It might be easier on the website because of the way it looks when you first enter (I'm trying my hardest not to give too much away)

 

[xJuggleboy]

I first found a way that seemd to work almost instantly! just multiply the number of dots in the middle by 2! It worked the first 4 times I tryed it... After that I was no where neer the right aswer... I was quite annoyed till I figured it out =-) took about 5 min.

 

[Poop-Loops]

Took me about an hour the first time I found this. :)

PL

 

[member 5645]

Got it the first time. I attribute my ability to do this so quickly to NOT having the higher education many of you do.

 

[Pseudopod]

Took me about 30 minutes. I was writing down the numbers and calculating things until I re-read the paragraph below it, then I got it immediately.

 

[honestrosewater]

The "Background" paragraph tells you it's something simple (and hints that you shouldn't think like a "smart" person (which worked for me )). I was able to solve it almost immediately, after two rounds. Maybe I got a lucky combination of numbers. Here they are- the correct number of petals is bolded:
6, 5, 3, 4, 4, 6
6, 3, 6, 1, 3, 4

 

[mattmns]

^ What really gave it away for me was 4 or 5 straight sets of having no 3s or 5s and getting 0 every time.