The name of the game is petals around the rose...

Esseb · Wed 26/05/2004 15:22:21

This version of the story is a bit different and more detailed SSH:
http://member.melbpc.org.au/~lborrett/computing/petals-bg.htm

Seems he did figure it out eventually.

Czar · Wed 26/05/2004 15:46:05

SSH, i think you helped them pretty(too) much.

Omg, i thought i never would see it, but when i looked better

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to the title

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i was relieved.....
oooh maaan....
Anyways, at first I wasnt even sure what petals were (for like 15 seconds)...

Nellie · Wed 26/05/2004 19:31:08

I can't believe I'm seeing people complain about this puzzle on an adventure forum!

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It's a perfect example of a 'think outside the box' puzzle, surely?

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Alexis Vale · Wed 26/05/2004 19:58:50

Ah. I like this one...I think I used to play this when I was a kid. I was in kindergarten when a sixth grader showed it to me. Hehe. I loved it when no one else would understand.

m0ds · Wed 26/05/2004 21:33:05

If you can figure it out, you're actually the dumbest sh1t in the world!

And if you can't figure it out, you're actually Albert Einstein you'll be pleased to know!

Inkoddi · Wed 26/05/2004 23:04:08

woo-hooo

after many years (40 minutes) of blood, sweat and tears i finally got it (teh rose thingy)

Peter Thomas · Wed 26/05/2004 23:11:23

mods - is the answer 12?

TerranRich · Thu 27/05/2004 02:07:04

m0ds: I've no f***in' clue. Good thing, too, it has validated my existence as a human.

I've got a puzzle. I found it recently...

Jerry has $5 in the bank. Larry has $3. If Jerry owes Larry half as much as Larry has, then what is the largest prime number known to man?

No cheating!! This one should be easy!!! THINK OUTSIDE TEH BOX!!!11111

m0ds · Thu 27/05/2004 02:08:56

Oooh so close Peter! Think simpler!!1

Anyway the petals game was cutsie. I wish they did maths exams like that.

Dart · Thu 27/05/2004 02:19:04

m0ds: Is the answer to your puzzle 11?

evenwolf · Thu 27/05/2004 02:41:07

I got it, took a few minutes. My first whim was to find something similar to the doorman puzzle on Phatt Island on MI2. After that notion passed, I thought mathematically for a total of 2 minutes before I got lazy. And then the answer came.

m0ds · Thu 27/05/2004 13:53:57

Dart, correct! You must be Einstein! And your avatar is blatently Keen! That was the only game we were allowed on the computers at school back when I was 13.

Dart · Thu 27/05/2004 14:21:15

I wun! I are teh r0x0r5!!?11! OMG WTF1?!1

Your school actually let you play Commander Keen? Pssh. Mine didn't. The only games my computer lab had were Word Munchers, Math Munchers and this Sesame Street math game.

m0ds · Thu 27/05/2004 14:45:45

Too bad.. We had Keen, Doom and a whole bunch of QBasic games, like Gorillas and Nibbles and those we'd made. The older BCC machine had Lemons. Okay, we weren't really allowed to have Keen or Doom but we had it on there anyway.

And Broken Glass, of course.

There wasn't actually much educational software back in those days - Encarta was only just getting off the ground, and wasn't used very much. There wasn't any mathematics software. So we had to resort to games.

Fuzzpilz · Thu 27/05/2004 15:13:53

m0ds: Mathematica and Maple, currently the most popular computer algebra systems, have both been around since the 1980s... and many other systems have been around for as least as long. (for example, GNU Maxima is based on Macsyma, development on which began in 1967)
Of course, it's questionable whether these can be considered "educational software". They're widely used by students in fields connected with mathematics (math itself, physics, IT...), but more as a tool than as a means of education.

edit: Also, by "there wasn't any", you probably mean your school didn't have it, or didn't offer it to pupils. I can't claim I know more about that than you do.

.. · Thu 27/05/2004 20:25:46

Hehe, Got it straight away

Redwall · Fri 28/05/2004 00:19:49

Gah, I kept trying to arrange the dice into a rose... damn this game. Damn it! It took me days!

m0ds · Fri 28/05/2004 01:24:23

Well the point I was trying to make was that the systems we had at school, didn't have mathematica software. Just games. Like Doom.

evenwolf · Fri 28/05/2004 01:28:24

not Oregon Trail?

stuh505 · Fri 28/05/2004 08:06:18

argh, i hate these "simple games." I don't think this way. I start looking for mathematical patterns in the most obscure and complicated ways. Of course, when I saw the hint, "the name is actually important" I knew immediately what the answer was....but without it...may have never gotten it :/