Thursday Puzzle: Petals on a Rose

[ChrisPackit]

Is it sad that when I figured this out yesterday, I knocked up a little VB app to calculate the outcome and randomly generate numbers so I could test the theory ....

[MayContainNuts]

Does is matter what type of rose it is?!!!

[Old Hack]

Remove the even numbers, take 1 off the odd numbers and add them together. If all numbers are even it's zero. But that doesn't really explain the meaning of the puzzle which is better understood by looking at a dice.

3 3 1 6 4

3 3 1

3 3

6

That doesn't work.

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[mudskipper]

3 3 1 6 4

3 3 1

3 3

6

That doesn't work.

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3 3 1
2 2 0
4

[mudskipper]

Is it sad that when I figured this out yesterday, I knocked up a little VB app to calculate the outcome and randomly generate numbers so I could test the theory ....

Very. You should have done it in C.

[Old Hack]

3 3 1
2 2 0
4

I have just seen it again.

OK

Add all the odd numbers together, then subtract the amount of odd numbers

(3 + 3 + 1) - 3 = 4

5 5 5 6 3

18 - 4 = 14

[TestMangler]

Remove the even numbers, take 1 off the odd numbers and add them together. If all numbers are even it's zero. But that doesn't really explain the meaning of the puzzle which is better understood by looking at a dice.

Each 5 counts as 4, each 3 counts as 2, nothing else matters. If there are no 3s or 5s, the answer is zero. If the answer is odd, round up.

Simple as that.

[Old Hack]

Each 5 counts as 4, each 3 counts as 2, nothing else matters. If there are no 3s or 5s, the answer is zero. If the answer is odd, round up.

Simple as that.

Add odds together, subtract # of odds.

Can't see it being simpler than that.

[Pondlife]

Each 5 counts as 4, each 3 counts as 2, nothing else matters. If there are no 3s or 5s, the answer is zero. If the answer is odd, round up.

Simple as that.

How do you get an odd number?

[TestMangler]

How do you get an odd number?

Good point