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Funny (old) Game/Puzzle…, found it via planet.terasi.net, refering a post on Ariya Hidayat’s blog.
I solved it after about 5 minutes of thinking, but I didn’t try to compute heavily yet, just tried some substraction, addition and multiplication..
The key is .. (again) The name of the game is The Petals Around The Rose. π
There’s also a story on how Bill Gates solve/play this game..
Try it!, hope it won’t take you days to solve it.. π