Flatmate David & I were talking today about his university paper & through that discussion the Petals Around the Rose game came up. I thought I’d link to it here as I famously never found out the answer to this game but refused to look it up online. As a test of lateral thinking, I wanted to see whether in time I could crack it on my own.
Well, I actually had forgotten about it until I was reminded today. But unfortunately when googling the game to find the URL to send to David a very strong clue to how to unlock the answer to the game was in the search results. So armed with that I gave the game another try & found I now knew the key to it. Oh well! Have a go & see if you can work it out. If you’re feeling charitable leave a comment here letting me know how many total rolls it took before you were confident you had cracked it.
URL: http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm
There is actually a famous story about the time Bill Gates was first introduced to the Petals Around the Rose game. It is a fascinating story but I link to it with this caution, it does have the ability to send you down the wrong track when trying to figure out the game. Ok, that said, Bill Gates and
Petals Around the Rose.
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