Are you too smart to figure this out?

[MrDad]

How many petals?

[BigDawgAMD]

got it in one. that was cool tho. had to think for a minute

[werecow]

dangitt!!!!! now you have got me obsessing over this!!!!!!

[NiteShdw]

I figured it out after one roll. The "5 sided die" hint gives it away.

[elderbear]

I didn't read the text - but had the correct answer on the first roll. Then I ran with a different theory. When it gave me my first answer back, I knew I had it down. I rolled again. This time I had a brain fart and typed one number while meaning another. Got it right on the third and subsequent tries.

 

It's a good puzzle. Try this:

 

How many points are there on the globe where, by walking one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north, you reach the place where you started?

[elderbear]

dangitt!!!!! now you have got me obsessing over this!!!!!!

 

Take your time and feel empowered by this:

 

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.

 

Uh, I didn't figure it out right away ... I'd already spent years and years struggling to find a solution ...

 

 

 

B)

[Weyoun]

How many points are there on the globe where, by walking one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north, you reach the place where you started?

 

From what I can tell of your puzzle, it is basically a 1 mile circle, since you just went one mile east and hit the orig. point.... Now, when you say how many points, how big is a point? Or am I missing the point of this puzzle altogether... I am rather thick skulled about this stuff sometimes.

[nuages]

One thing I found deceiving was the fact all the dice were in a line as if their position mattered. It made me try to develop patterns based on that at first :P

[werecow]

heh.....heh.....i figgered it out hhheeeeee......have imprints of keyboard on my head but i finally got it!!!!!!

[czernyman]

It's a good puzzle. Try this:

 

How many points are there on the globe where, by walking one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north, you reach the place where you started?

 

2

[Fourevver]

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1

[mcant]

1 Gotta love non euclidean geometry :p

 

(How dare schools teach the internal angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees!)

 

BTW I suppose 2 could be correct if you used true and magnetic?

[Antilles]

Yeah that took me a couple rolls, then I read the background. Bit of an insult to say the smart you are the longer it will take to get it, that means most of us here are stupid if we got it fairly quick :)

[Antilles]

A globe doesnt have points does it, its smooth and round. That is using the definition of a point, being a sharp pointy object :)

 

But Id say 3, the starting point, th point he reached south, and the point he reached east, he returned to the first point.

[Oma]

He he - easy...though I missed a 3

[GeneralLee]

It's a good puzzle. Try this:

 

How many points are there on the globe where, by walking one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north, you reach the place where you started?

 

Hmmmmm...... I am thinking the answer is

 

2

 

or else, it's infinite.

[GeneralLee]

I figured it out after one roll. The "5 sided die" hint gives it away.

 

I'm not sure I follow you there, the site says;

 

"Petals Around the Rose" is traditionally played with 5 six-sided dice."

 

I must be really dense, I haven't figured it out yet.... I'm with werecow on this one.... haha

 

Hey Elderbear, who has possession of that dunce cap at the moment?

 

[maverick]

i ahve never heard of this game, petals around the rose.

what is it?

 

somebody please save me from lobbing my pcout the window :mad:

[elderbear]

How many points are there on the globe where, by walking one mile south, one mile east, and one mile north, you reach the place where you started?

 

1 was the answer I gave - I remembered once solving a riddle about a hunter who walked south, then east, shot a bear, then walked north back to his camp (what color was the bear?) - but that puzzle both leads and misdirects.

 

Non-euclidean geometry does in fact figure strongly into the solution - but all of you who have taken a stab at it need to think further out of the box than you have so far ... you're all wrong, as was I.

 

:( :o :cyclops:

[GeneralLee]

 

1 was the answer I gave - I remembered once solving a riddle about a hunter who walked south, then east, shot a bear, then walked north back to his camp (what color was the bear?) - but that puzzle both leads and misdirects.

 

Non-euclidean geometry does in fact figure strongly into the solution - but all of you who have taken a stab at it need to think further out of the box than you have so far ... you're all wrong, as was I.

 

 

I figured the answer was 2, the north pole and the equator. I ruled out the south pole, since you cannot walk south from there.