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How to Play Petals Around the Rose

Petals Around the Rose is a logic game with concealed rules, played using 5 standard dice. In order to play Petals Around the Rose, at least 1 player must know the rules of the game. This player is deemed the Potentate of the Rose. The rest of the players must not know the rules of the game. The Potentate rolls the 5 dice, then tells the other players how many petals appear. The object of the game is for the other players to determine the rules from the answers given by the Potentate of the Rose.

Things You'll Need

5 standard, six-sided dice

Instructions

- 1
  Tell the other players--those who do not know the rules of the game--that the game is called Petals Around the Rose, and that the name of the game is the key to how it is played.
- 2
  Roll all 5 dice, then tell the other players the number of petals that appear. The "rose" is the center pip on the sides of the dice that contain a center pip, i.e., the 1, 3, and 5. The petals are the pips around that center. The 1 has 0 petals, the 3 has 2 petals and the 5 has 4 petals. For example: a roll of 2, 3, 6, 6 and 5 has 6 petals.
- 3
  Continue rolling the dice and revealing the number of petals--without revealing the rule for determining the number of petals--until one of the players thinks they know it. When a player says they know the rule, do not let them reveal it aloud. Instead, ask them to answer correctly for 6 rolls in a row. If they get the answer correct each time, they "win" the game, and they become the Potentate of the Rose.

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