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| Re: Petals Around the Rose - Puzzle [message #228968 is a reply to message #228962] |
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Scythar
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Heheh, it's said that in this game, the smarter you are, the harder it is to figure it out since you think the solution is more complicated than what it really is.
There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly.
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| Re: Petals Around the Rose - Puzzle [message #228976 is a reply to message #228968] |
Thu, 02 November 2006 09:52 |
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| Scythar wrote on Thu, 02 November 2006 07:55 |
Heheh, it's said that in this game, the smarter you are, the harder it is to figure it out since you think the solution is more complicated than what it really is.
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Not quite true.
This is thought because "smart" people usually make it more complicated than it really is. Interestingly enough, it was also mentioned that people who pursue a career in this sort of work (ie. Stat/mathematicians) have the hardest time. This is because they are hardwired to thinking in complex terms.
Intelligence has nothing to do with it (heck, I've been tested at an IQ of over 140), but rather how hardwired you are into thinking a certain way. Those who "aren't smart" appear to have an easier time, only because this has not happened to them.
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| Re: Petals Around the Rose - Puzzle [message #228980 is a reply to message #228962] |
Thu, 02 November 2006 10:33 |
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Yeah of course, and there are also other types of intelligence apart from mathematical, I just threw out the usual joke conserning this game.
There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly.
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| Re: Petals Around the Rose - Puzzle [message #228984 is a reply to message #228982] |
Thu, 02 November 2006 11:51 |
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| Merovingian wrote on Thu, 02 November 2006 13:22 |
I don't understand how to work it out. 
How'd you work it out?
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Just count the petals around the roses, they're right there!  And if the petals are AROUND a rose, then the rose has to be...
I remember when I first tried to solve this, I tried multiplying, dividing, adding, substracting, tried just every other dice and all. Then my little sister told me I'm thinking too hard, so I just concentrated on the name....petals around the rose. Around....the rose....and it hit me.
There's a hole in the sky through which things can fly.
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| Re: Petals Around the Rose - Puzzle [message #228987 is a reply to message #228984] |
Thu, 02 November 2006 12:35 |
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| Scythar wrote on Thu, 02 November 2006 18:51 |
| Merovingian wrote on Thu, 02 November 2006 13:22 |
I don't understand how to work it out.
How'd you work it out?
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Just count the petals around the roses, they're right there! And if the petals are AROUND a rose, then the rose has to be...
I remember when I first tried to solve this, I tried multiplying, dividing, adding, substracting, tried just every other dice and all. Then my little sister told me I'm thinking too hard, so I just concentrated on the name....petals around the rose. Around....the rose....and it hit me.
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what rose?
edit: never mind, ive got it.
This is a signature. Reading this is wasting your time.
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| Re: Petals Around the Rose - Puzzle [message #228992 is a reply to message #228962] |
Thu, 02 November 2006 13:22 |
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I figured the original one out in less than 5 minutes, and I figured the advanced one out in less than 1 minute. The last one I have not figure out yet.
David Anderson
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DCOM Productions
Microsoft Partner (MSP)
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| Re: Petals Around the Rose - Puzzle [message #228995 is a reply to message #228994] |
Thu, 02 November 2006 13:33 |
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| light wrote on Thu, 02 November 2006 15:32 |
| Merovingian wrote on Fri, 03 November 2006 09:22 |
What rose? There is not a rose on that page.
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Break a rose down into its basic attributes, then look at the dice and think about it.
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That's what I had to tell my dad. He got it soon after.
The Mind-Splitter is annoying as Hell. I think I have the general idea, but the getting the answer isn't the easiest.
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