NFT: Petals around the rose

[Samwise]

nah i got nothing. Can someone post the answer using that spoiler function?

 

[Doctor]

Got it now. I cheated. I was on the right track in my first couple of turns, but then when someone suggested the answer was in the title, I treated it like a word puzzle.

It's still a maths puzzle, regardless of how you look at it. I rest comfortably knowing that I did get it, I just didn't know exactly how they structured the answers.... and besides, it means I'm smart doesn't it. Bill Gates took a while too.

 

[Samwise]

ahh never mind I got it.

 

[miladi]

Got it!!!!!

 

[fosie]

i finally got it...about time, it was pissing me off.

 

[The_Joey_Show]

While I doubt there's any truth in the phrase "the smarter you are, the longer it will take you", I do believe that it is not a problem that suits people who are good at/interested in mathematics. The brain of a mathematics person works very logically. They are always seeking patterns, reasons, figures, permutations. This has none of those. It;s not really a maths problem. It's a lateral thinking exercise.

BTW, I did three unit maths at school, studied maths and problem solving logic at university, and am now a school teacher... and by the time I got that bloody puzzle I was on the brink of insanity!

 

[miladi]

Actually, this is a logic puzzle more than math. As soon as I tripped onto that factor, the solution was obvious! Read again and think about it.

 

[bluesbreaker]

According to the site, there is actually a mathematical solution.

 

[Parki]

can someone please pm me the answer, i dont get this, its fkn stupid

 

[Parki]

i got it, finally, i hate it

 

[miladi]

According to the site, there is actually a mathematical solution.

Maybe, but I worked it out using logic!

 

[bluesbreaker]

Me too .

 

[foetus_head]

i got it in 20 secs by guess and check, I put in 6 every time till I got it!

 

[miladi]

i got it in 20 secs by guess and check, I put in 6 every time till I got it!

That isn't exactly the point. You are supposed to work out why you got it correct with 6 and then be able to get it right everytime!

 

[Hunter of the SNARK]

That isn't exactly the point. You are supposed to work out why you got it correct with 6 and then be able to get it right everytime!

Oh I think foetus_head was only inputting 6 in order to obtain the correct answers from the program, then presumably she/he was able to identify the correlation between the patterns of the dice and the answers which led her/him to the discovery of the "rule" some 20 seconds later... Smart girl (or boy), I say

 

[les norton]

I have no idea....pm please people

 

[les norton]

ok...i got it now.

As soon as i come clean that i need help. Now I have ruined everyones belief that I am a genius.