Petals Aound The Rose
by Kurt A. Christoff
in the December 1978 issue
of the Mathematics Teacher

The name of the game is Petals Around The Rose and the name is important.

I can tell you the total for any throw of the dice, and the total is always even.

See if you can discover the secret of the rose...

	=	10
	=	4
	=	20
	=	2
	=	14
	=	8
	=	0

Now try these ...

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The answers are (in order):
8, 6, 4, 4, 8, 0, 8, 0, 4, 32, 16, and 2.

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