Lets see how smary you all are

[cletus]

Ive been passing this around friends for a while so i guess ill post it up here. http://personal.baker.edu/web2/cdavis09/roses.html

The rules are simple.
1. The name of the game is "Petals Around the Roses"
2. The answer can only be zero or an even number
3. The answer will always be given too you.

If you figure it out dont post the answer. It took me 15 min to figure it out and i want EVERYONE to go through what i had to to figure it out :D

[gamarada717]

I figured it out in 2 tries. That was simple. We did a game with a concept the same, but different rules in class one time. Just think of what the "petals" around the "rose" actually means....Get a picture in your head.

[RenagadeOfFunk]

i am too smary...i guess thats why i didn't bother trying to solve it...

[Paintball_4_Fun]

If your will is just to weak.

Secret Instructions ROT-13 encoded for super-secrecy!
No peeking!

Gur Frperg: pbhag gur ahzore bs cvcf nebhaq gur pragre cvcf ba gur qvpr. Sbe
rknzcyr, n 3 vf ebyyrq, gung'f 2.
N sbhe vf ebyyrq, gung'f mreb (ab pragre cvc). L'frr ubj guvf jbexf? Fbzr
crbcyr jvyy trg vg evtug bss, ohg bguref jvyy gnxr *lrnef*. Gehfg zr.
Lbh pna nyybj gurz gb gnxr abgrf vs lbh jnag, vg hfhnyyl qbrfa'g uryc.

V'ir nyfb frra guvf jurer gurl'er cbyne ornef fvggvat nebhaq n ubyr va gur vpr,
ohg V cersre crgnyf nebhaq gur ebfr orpnhfr vg'f rira zber boghfr.

[TraXeR]

got it, took about 5 minutes.

but those 5 minutes were hell, lol.

[dansim]

3rd try

[notcreative]

Took me a while but i finally got it down.

[spantol]

Man, that sucked. Finally got it, after about 20 minutes and about five sheets of paper...

[Paintball_4_Fun]

I don't know how long it took me. But I got really Pissed off. my wife come over and looks at it a already knew the answer. and that really really pissed me off. I hate things like that.

[Mango]

smary http://forums.offtopic.com/images/smilies/kekekegay.gif

[taylor492]

i got it on the second try












....but it was a guess :D

[ZSigErik]

I got it the first try at first look, ridiculously simple.

[paintbattler]

O.K. That was a good one because it took me about 10 minutes to figure it out.

[Flamebo]

Second try. Took my time staring at it, though.

[Thordic]

I figured it out pretty quick, but that is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

[Kai]

I never actually figured it out... Someone had to show me.


Being smary is overrated, anywho.

[Brak]

i guessed 4 on the second try and got it right.

[BobTheCow]

This thing is freaking driving me CRAZY!!!! Come on google, tell me how...

[redzone]

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.



i must be really fricken smart then

[MantisMag]

i figured it out on the first try. does that make me smary? :p took like 10 secs. "petals around the rose. petals around the rose. what the hell does that mean? oh. you can't be serious." had to try it a second time just to make sure it wasn't a coincidence that i got the right answer. yup it really is that stupid.

[redzone]

yeah i finally just figured it out i was overthinking it by way too much

[Paintball_4_Fun]

This thing is freaking driving me CRAZY!!!! Come on google, tell me how...

I posted the answer bob..
Just copy my post and search and search for rot-13 encoding. Oh hech go to rot-13.com and uncode my text.

[BobTheCow]

Ahhh I just got it pb4fun, but thanks anyway... that's SO SIMPLE!!! ugh!! :mad:

[hitech]

I kept trying to come up with a formula...Then it just hit me...petals around the rose...

[tippmannpain889]

lol i thought i was sooo good because my first 3 guesses were right...then i couldnt get it for aobut an hour. also i think that alot of people on here are just posting that they got it and it was so easy because they dont want to feel stupid.. sorry if that pissed anyone off, but it is true the smarter you are the longer it takes...lol

[hitech]

Had I not read the posts here about how easy it was, which caused me to stop trying to find a formula and think, "petals around a rose"... Emphasis on the quotes... I would have possibly never got it. :D

[ZSigErik]

lol i thought i was sooo good because my first 3 guesses were right...then i couldnt get it for aobut an hour. also i think that alot of people on here are just posting that they got it and it was so easy because they dont want to feel stupid.. sorry if that pissed anyone off, but it is true the smarter you are the longer it takes...lol

Im gonna have to say I disagree with this. I believe the smarter you are, the easier. Being able to convert conceptions and what not, to think in different realms of intelligence easier is a benchmark for "smaryness". To be able to realize that something should not be overthought is a skill too. Any agree?

[tippmannpain889]

yes that is i tried really hard to try and find some sort of pattern. then i read the bottom so i "dumbed" it down a bit and tried to lay all the dice on top of each other in my mind and see how many were on the right side. but im telling too much so im just going to stfu. sorry if i ruined it :eek:

[Rumble]

nice! took me about 5 min... but heres the kicker...


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.

guess were all purdy stoopid :rolleyes: :p :eek:

[c2l1k]

I did the same thing as hitech. After reading, it took less than a minute. Before that, it took me about 20 minutes.

-Chris :cool:

[paintballer20]

:dance: I got it atlast!!! my head hurts, im gonna go to sleep now, it took me a while.... :sleeping:

[Fanatic]

realizing that the answer was easy made me so pissed....i drank a slurpee real fast to punish my brain!!

[adam_61550]

Ah that is enfuraiting. This game is flawed. Petals? Those aren't petals, they're dice. Plain and simple....DICE. The makers of this game should be drawn and quartered. It's flawed I tell you. Dice and roses aren't the same thing.

[xmetal2001]

I don't understand how it is a test of intelligence, or whatever it shows. Its just shows how long it takes you to go through every possible interpretation of petals on a rose... it just depends on how quickly you can guess what that means.

I was quite dissapointed when I figured it out. There is no math, no riddle type things, its just taking words and guessing what they could possibly mean when looking at dice.

[Kevn 419]

how do you get the answer, i cant figure it out!



maby im just really smart...

[Kevn 419]

YAY!! i got it!! :dance:

[pputkowski]

That is extremely easy, first try.

[JimmyBeam]

bah roses are stoopid neways.