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Old 02-24-2005, 16:54   #1
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Petals Around the Rose

I got this in an email today and thought I'd share. Very cool brain teaser.

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Old 02-24-2005, 19:55   #2
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Very interesting. Took me about a half an hour. It's one of those brain teasers that's feels impenetrable until you figure it out, then it clicks, and it's completely obvious and you wonder why you didn't see it before.
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Old 02-24-2005, 20:50   #3
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2 minutes - ran 1 test. It was correct, tested the theory and then
confirmed the theory. No clue what a rose has to do with it.
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Old 02-26-2005, 19:58   #4
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Spent about 8 min getting it, no idea about the rose eather.
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Old 02-26-2005, 22:12   #5
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If you don't know what a rose has to do with it I doubt that you actually got it.
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Old 02-26-2005, 22:19   #6
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Took me about 10 seconds. I'm not sure why it was so fast. But, it just leaped at me. I'm chalking it up to luck.
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Old 02-26-2005, 23:15   #7
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Quote:
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If you don't know what a rose has to do with it I doubt that you actually got it.
Hmmm - A pattern law can be uniformly applied; there is a rational inverse

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Old 02-27-2005, 16:16   #8
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You guys and your fast times. Sheesh. That wracked my brain for a while.

But then, I did read somewhere about that game that the smarter you are, the longer it seems to take.
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Old 02-27-2005, 19:02   #9
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When I finally got this after maybe 5 tries I cracked up.
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Old 02-28-2005, 13:22   #10
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Got it on my third try in about two minutes. The title helped me.
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Old 03-06-2005, 14:18   #11
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Yeah, the title did help...took about ten minutes of trying...
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Old 03-09-2005, 06:24   #12
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Figured it out in about 5 minutes. Had to get my kids' math homework out of my brain. Kept trying to apply the pythagorean theorem.
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