This one requires a link, since I'm not about to sit here and roll dice for y'all.

Petals Around the Rose

Have fun!

hehehe....I figured it out!!!!

I got it! Took me a while, just about smashed the laptop in frustration... But I finally got it!

Thanks, Rivka, this was fun!

Bethy

WOW! I grok petals around the rose!

yeah, figured it out but that was fun, thanks Rivka!

Carole

That's a cool game. We actually did it in a psych class I took last year...Why I don't recall...


jd

That is interesting. I cheated and looked up the source code somewhere after playing a few dozen times, but still interesting.

This was extremely frustrating... <g>

Julie

That's interesting, because I actually thought they had given too much away in their instructions. They said, "the name of the game is significant", and I thought, "well, my guess would be that this means the answer is <deleted so as not to give spoiler>".

So I tried my hypothesis, and sure enough I was able to win the game with 6 straight guesses.

(It took me a bit longer to figure out the rule for "Deep but not Profound"! lol)

- Vicki

That's funny, Vicki. The first time I was shown PAtR it took me AGES and I finally gave up and found some hints. This time, I thought I remembered (but was off a drop) so it took me a few rolls to remember the answer.

But Deep, but not Profound I twigged almost immediately.

Numbers versus letters? Dunno.

I was looking at this way too mathematically! I was trying to add/subtract/multiply/divide/square until i finally cheated and found out the answer by searching on google. I got deep but not profound almost instantly. Weird, because I like numbers way better than letters!

- Laura

A-ha! Finally got it. Thank you, Laura, your answer was very very helpful to me I googled, too, and although I didn't find any spoilers, there was a graphic that helped. Also a comment about how the smarter you are, the longer it takes you to figure this out... not sure if that's right, but it makes me feel better

PJ

Laura, exactly! I think it might be that those of us who like numbers are used to manipulating them in very specific ways . . . and this is not one of them.

Oh, dear.

Actually, Rivka, I like numbers more than words, too. I think that is why I felt they gave away the answer when they said the name was significant. If they hadn't said that, I'm sure I'd still be trying to manipulate the digits on those dice!

I really don't know why the answer seemed to pop out at me like that. Maybe I was just tired.

- Vicki

Sometimes these things just click. That's what happens when you're dealing with messy, organic, neural networks.

Laura, I was doing the same thing - I kept doing math. Too frustrating.

Julie

Dang, I'm as smart as Bill Gates. But not as rich!
(It took him a loonng time).

Artemis

This is nice! Well, rule n.1 is a spoiler, but not so much: my friend (degree in mathematics,by the way) took ages to understand! I'm going to try with dad...

simona