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Petals Around The Rose Created 18 years ago2006-12-02 20:27:44 UTC by fourthgen fourthgen

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Created 18 years ago2006-12-02 20:27:44 UTC by fourthgen fourthgen

fourthgen
fourthgen
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-02 20:27:44 UTC Post #204869
http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-bg.htm

Check this riddle/puzzle out. It got me confused for about half an hour trying to figure out what the answer to it was. It's so satisfying knowing the answer afterwards.

As the article states, people in the know should not tell people who are not in the know. They should only taunt them with their superior knowledge :)
User posted image
I'll be able to know if you know the answer to the riddle if you can give me the answer to this roll. PM or something to avoid having to put up fresh rolls.
fourthgen fourthgen
Archie
Archie
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-02 20:35:14 UTC Post #204873
OLD AS TIME ITSELF!

I did this in PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
Habboi
Habboi
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-02 21:05:47 UTC Post #204876
Bah it's too late for me to figure it out, I'll try tommorow :
Habboi HabboiSticky White Love Glue
srry
srry
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-02 21:34:19 UTC Post #204877
Too easy to cheat if you're doing this online. Wikipedia answers everything, remember?
srry srry
Archie
Archie
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-02 21:38:23 UTC Post #204878
oh, and fourthgen, you have to say that the answer is 10. The challenge is to figure out how you get the answer.
Archie ArchieGoodbye Moonmen
AJ
AJ
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-03 07:13:05 UTC Post #204890
Man, what a cinch. :P

Answer to fourthgen's roll is ten. The site fourthy linked to makes it very clear what you're looking at.
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
fourthgen
fourthgen
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-03 07:24:39 UTC Post #204891
Well, the whole riddle is a lot more fun when it's done in real life :P Confusing people is fun, no matter what.
fourthgen fourthgen
Penguinboy
Penguinboy
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-03 07:51:16 UTC Post #204892
i cheated. yay.
i have no patience with these kind of things.
sure, you could just spend 10 minutes thinking about it, but, thats valuable time down the drain. :)
Penguinboy PenguinboyHaha, I died again!
AJ
AJ
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-03 08:35:02 UTC Post #204893
How the hell could you cheat? It's pretty darn obvious...

R-right?
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
alexb911
alexb911
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-03 08:36:42 UTC Post #204894
...the title is just a dead give-away, hardly a riddle / puzzle!??!
alexb911 alexb911
Penguinboy
Penguinboy
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-03 08:37:52 UTC Post #204895
i read the story without looking at the pictures or anything and then typed the title into wikipedia :)
Penguinboy PenguinboyHaha, I died again!
AJ
AJ
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-03 08:44:57 UTC Post #204896
Noob. :P
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Tycell
Tycell
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-03 12:57:24 UTC Post #204925
Admitidly it had me stumped for a while, its a funny little quirky game. I was on the right track by the time I finished reading it but my pure lazyness gave in and I just googled the asnwer.

Annoyingly I was so close with my train of thought before I looked it up as well.
Tycell Tycell
Tosse
Tosse
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-03 16:16:53 UTC Post #204955
p-p-p-pointless!
Tosse Tosse
Dorian27
Dorian27
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-04 15:04:26 UTC Post #205019
damn.. this distracted me from work for 30 minutes.

Heh damn my illogical mind >.<
Dorian27 Dorian27
Jobabob
Jobabob
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-04 15:22:54 UTC Post #205021
I thought the whole point is that artistic types get this a lot quicker than scientific types that try to find a method behind the madness
Jobabob Jobabob
Dorian27
Dorian27
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-04 17:10:09 UTC Post #205024
Good point. I consider my mind to be more mathmatical than artistic.
It also explains that Ant is one of those granola crunching art hippies.
Dorian27 Dorian27
dustbunny
dustbunny
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-04 22:40:29 UTC Post #205066
Cool, I only figured it out after a coupld clues, one clue in general helped the most. Anyone know of anything else like this? I guess if you take the reverse it would also be it's own game.
dustbunny dustbunny
AJ
AJ
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-04 23:58:35 UTC Post #205067
Jobabob: Makes sense. I'm definately more artistic than scientific.
AJ AJGlorious Overlord
Orpheus
Orpheus
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-05 00:05:58 UTC Post #205069
User posted image
Orpheus Orpheus
Dorian27
Dorian27
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-08 10:53:46 UTC Post #205494
learn to whistle in tune already, sheesh.
Dorian27 Dorian27
m0p
m0p
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-08 23:06:07 UTC Post #205530
I worked it out in a minute :]
m0p m0pIllogical.
monster_urby
monster_urby
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-09 06:26:34 UTC Post #205548
Yeah, pretty simple stuff. Worked it out halfway through.
monster_urby monster_urbyGoldsourcerer
38_98
38_98
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-09 07:03:39 UTC Post #205551
Its a neat little thing this, but as Urbane said, pretty simple.
38_98 38_98Lord
monster_urby
monster_urby
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-09 07:36:45 UTC Post #205552
Urbane? :lol:

Reminds me of college. My tutor used to say it like [Urb-Ain-Byu-Lah]

Pronounciation:

Urbanebula [Urb-An-Eh-Byu-Lah]

Anyway, back on topic. I've only got 2 dice but I wanna get some more so I can try this on my Fiancee. Its fun to confuse people as fourthgen said.
monster_urby monster_urbyGoldsourcerer
38_98
38_98
Posted 18 years ago2006-12-09 10:16:39 UTC Post #205555
Urbane, im too lazy to spell long names out :P
38_98 38_98Lord
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