If Bill can figure it out, so can I...

• The name of the game is Petals Around the Rose.


• The name of the game is important.


• The computer will roll five dice and ask you to guess the score for the roll.


• The score will always be zero or an even number.


Your mission is to work out how the computer calculates the score and become a Potentate of the Rose and qualify to become a member of the Fraternity of Petals Around the Rose.

Lloyd Borrett's website also has a story about a young Bill Gates and his first exposure to the puzzle back in 1977. Interesting reading...

PS. No, I haven't figured it out yet!

PPS. This didn't work for me at all in Fireox 1.0 Preview Release. It does work in Internet Explorer 6, and supposedly it works in older versions of Netscape, though I haven't verified.