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Shadowspawn
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Petals around the rose.


Whoah, check this out!

http://www.borrett.id.au/computing/petals-j.htm

There are a few other places that talk about this game as well...but at the bottom of this one they even mention Bill Gates playing it. I'll keep digging into this...
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o 9210B o
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first of all, do you all know what "petals around the rose" is? if not i can explain...

EDIT:

btw, i did a trace on the blogspot.

Tracing route to blogspot.blogger.com [66.102.15.101]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 14 ms 20 ms 14 ms 10.101.140.1
2 11 ms 14 ms 8 ms dt1xaggc01-gex0914.sd.sd.cox.net [68.6.10.170]
3 48 ms 17 ms 12 ms elcnsysc01-gex0910.sd.sd.cox.net [68.6.8.46]
4 12 ms 16 ms 25 ms fed1dsrj02-gex060004.rd.sd.cox.net [68.6.8.22]
5 22 ms 23 ms 13 ms fed1bbrc01-pos0203.rd.sd.cox.net [68.1.0.200]
6 24 ms 26 ms 24 ms paltbbrj01-so000.r2.pt.cox.net [68.1.0.193]
7 22 ms 23 ms 23 ms core2-1-1-0.pao.net.google.com [198.32.176.31]
8 24 ms 23 ms 34 ms 66.249.94.12
9 28 ms 23 ms 23 ms 216.239.47.194
10 33 ms 24 ms 22 ms 216.239.49.78
11 21 ms 23 ms 24 ms 66.102.15.101

Trace complete.
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o 9210B o wrote:
first of all, do you all know what "petals around the rose" is? if not i can explain...


No clue, please elaborate...


Also, what does that trace route tell you, anything? I've never done one before...
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Nevermind, I know the solution to it now...you add the number of dots on the fringes of a die with a dot in the center. So a 5 = +4, a 3 = +1, and you total them up.
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the trace gave me the ip of the user (presumably) i then can visually trace it (city, state, etc)

"Petals around the rose" is a game that is played with dice, bill gates did play this game, and the only reason that specific time is famous, is because it took him ALL DAY to figure out the puzzle.

im not supposed to say how it works, but for the sake of gaming i will... LOL.

when you start playing the game, the person who knows how it works says this line: "The name of the game is Petals Around the Rose. The name is very important. For each roll of the dice, there is one answer, and I will tell you that answer."

the point of the game is to figure out how the dealer is getting the answer, if you figure it out, and can tell the dealer the answer 5 times consecutively, then you are appointed to "Potentate of the Rose, one all-knowing about Petals Around the Rose and sworn to secrecy about the method."

you then are sworn to secrecy to never reveal the answer...

but, like i said, for the sake of gaming, i will explain.

the "Rose" is any number on a dice that has a dot in the CENTER, i.e. 5, 3, 1.

petals around the rose are how many dots are around that center dot, just add all the dots together, and walla... for example a roll of dice: 5, 3, 2, 6, 1 would equal: 6... (4 dots around the fives center, and 2 around the threes center)

now that i have revealed the secret i must be sentenced to eternal pain in the prisons of the rose... JK Razz

EDIT:

LOL i guess i took to long in my post!!! Rolling Eyes
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o 9210B o wrote:
the trace gave me the ip of the user (presumably) i then can visually trace it (city, state, etc)


But doesn't that just get you the location of the computer that hosts the blog? Not the user's machine who posted it, right?

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LOL i guess i took to long in my post!!! Rolling Eyes


No problem, thanks anyway. Smile Oh and yes, I definitely cheated and googled the solution...I'll stick to the challenges that might get me some Xbox lovin' thank you... Twisted Evil

Anyway, so I guess if some dice show up in the next challenge we know what to do...otherwise, back to the drawing board.
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actually im not sure because: i did a trace on some of my websites, hosted by yahoo, and it gave me MY ip
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blogspot had a more recent post on there yesterday or the day before and it has since been removed...interesting.......

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you must be talking about the one that was appoligized for. It was not a post, but an urgent memo to all crew chiefs. Whatever that means, i don't know.

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if THX added that to his away message after the ourcolony blogspot maybe THX is trying to say thaty it is realand we should watch that website...

wad do u think..
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