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How many petals on the rose

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    #32
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    thats another example of making a riddle hard simply by misleading you. it has nothing to do with roses. it could be called turtles around the purple stuff to give a strange example and it would give you the same amount of information. its all in the word around


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    #33
    D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭D


    Nah i got it in a moment of drunkeness when my wits were dimmed.


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    #34
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,090 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    muahahahahha the riddle is mines...after two weeks intensive work.....Starteed shouting at my laptop quite near the beginning of the two weeks actually....


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    #35
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Ah, I thought of it...
    It's a visual rather than a mathematical thing.

    Think my pounding headache helped?!


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    #36
    HybridTech
    Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭HybridTech


    Nice puzzle. Took a few attempts!
    Commander Vimes wrote:
    its all in the word around


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    #37
    Dragon Master
    Closed Accounts Posts: 51 ✭✭Dragon Master


    Wahay! I got it after a few minutes.


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    #38
    TomTom
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 3,290 ✭✭✭TomTom


    got the bastard


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    #39
    chillywilly
    Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭chillywilly


    ah it took me a while but i got it....my bro got it straight away


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    #40
    Ron DMC
    Registered Users Posts: 5,297 ✭✭✭Ron DMC


    Jaysus, only got it after reading the clues in the posts. Good puzzle!! :)


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    #41
    liamskater
    Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭liamskater


    Absolutly rubbish, wast of time


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    #42
    Praetorian
    Registered Users Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Praetorian


    It took me about about 5 minutes of trying to work it out with maths with no success and then a further minute to figure it out by reading the heading again. Quite easy and not very taxing :)


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    #43
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    liamskater wrote:
    Absolutly rubbish, wast of time


    So....... You got it then?


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    #44
    UnrealQueen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭UnrealQueen


    Woo hoo, finally! I was beginning to think i was really thick there. I wouldn't have had a hope in getting it without the clues tho, thanx:)


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    #45
    JohnMorrissey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 101 ✭✭JohnMorrissey


    I think most people have the problems when they don't look at it properly at first.

    Refresh your page and you should get it easier.


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    #46
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Can anybody give me the solution to this puzzle. It's driving me crazy. Hints earlier in the thread just make it more obscure:

    The answer is always even?
    Look at how they're arranged when you first open the link - what, just five dice all showing the number one?
    It's about the word "around"

    I don't get it (sobs!)

    Pleeease help.


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    #47
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    It's visual, not numerical. Be shallow!


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    #48
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    So no maths required?


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    #49
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Explained:
    No. You look at the dots. If there's one in the middle, that's a rose (like with a 5 or a 1). If there are dots around the middle one, they're petals (like a 5 has 4 petals around it, a 3 has 2, a 1 has 0).

    You get it?


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    #50
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Thank-you. D'oh - I feel stupid.


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    #51
    fuzzywiggle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,089 ✭✭✭fuzzywiggle


    I got it first time and it said I was correct...I was thinking is that it... :confused: Thumbs down!


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    #52
    ianmc38
    Registered Users Posts: 7,754 ✭✭✭ianmc38


    Hmm. I figured out the algorithm but really don't see the relation it has to a rose and petals tbh.


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    #53
    Doc_Savage
    Registered Users Posts: 677 ✭✭✭Doc_Savage


    quite easy.. got it first time.. nothing amazing!


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    #54
    Steoob
    Registered Users Posts: 2,552 ✭✭✭Steoob


    eh i thought that when i saw it first.. and i said eh no theres no way this puzzle could be that stupid so i never even entered in my answer... what a stupid puzzle im way too smart for it :p (the tongue smilie was to omit my bigheadedness not to imply that i was lying about the first half of my post...just so you know)


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    #55
    Cake Fiend
    Registered Users Posts: 5,335 ✭✭✭Cake Fiend


    Took me a while!

    But then again, I am a genius :cool:


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    #56
    Gabsdot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 76 ✭✭Gabsdot


    Please PM me the answer
    Please
    PLEASE

    Gabsdot


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    #57
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    simu wrote:
    Explained:
    No. You look at the dots. If there's one in the middle, that's a rose (like with a 5 or a 1). If there are dots around the middle one, they're petals (like a 5 has 4 petals around it, a 3 has 2, a 1 has 0).

    You get it?


    Simu already gave the solution.


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    #58
    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭MOH


    Actually, the thread title is a bit misleading.
    (That's my excuse for needing to read as far as the first clue before I got it)


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    #59
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    MOH wrote:
    Actually, the thread title is a bit misleading.
    (That's my excuse for needing to read as far as the first clue before I got it)
    i finds that with a lot of puzzles. usually you can't solve it simply because they don't give you enough information to go on, for example this puzzle which has nothing to do with roses or petals. so basically the answer could be one of a million things but you have to come up with the specific thing that the person was thinking of.

    like this one:
    my mate asked me what the most important invention of the modern age was. i came up with a million answers like sanitation, medicine, the car etc which are all perfectly valid answers but he was thinking of a mechanical clock so i got it wrong


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    #60
    hybal
    Registered Users Posts: 14 ✭hybal


    It would be harder if they didn't give you the proper answer when you answered wrong.


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    #61
    rsta
    Registered Users Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭rsta


    ah finally got it.. thats brutal. i couldnt belive I got it..

    I still don't get it, but I know how it works, but I dont get the petals and roses things.. ah dear


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