# How many petals around the rose

How many petals around the rose is a dice game you can play with your friends. Similar to "can I join the music box", there is a person that knows how the game works and the others have to discover the rule.

In this game, someone rolls some dice (usually two or more) and then people have to call "how many petals are around the rose".

# Algorithm

If you want to play it by yourself, you can play it over at TIO. Just hide the header (which is where the rule is implemented) and try passing different arguments (from 1 to 6) in the function.

spoiler, what follows is the rule you are invited to find by yourself!

The "roses" here are the dice, and the "petals" are the black dots that are around a central dot. Because only the odd numbers have a central black dot, only numbers 1, 3, 5 matter for the petals. Those numbers have, respectively, 0, 2, 4 dots around the central dot, the "petals".

# Input

Your input will be a non-empty list (or equivalent) of integers in the range [1, 6].

# Output

The number of petals around the rose.

# Test cases

Reference implementation in Python, that also generated the test cases.

1, 1 -> 0
1, 2 -> 0
1, 3 -> 2
1, 4 -> 0
1, 5 -> 4
1, 6 -> 0
2, 1 -> 0
2, 2 -> 0
2, 3 -> 2
2, 4 -> 0
2, 5 -> 4
2, 6 -> 0
3, 1 -> 2
3, 2 -> 2
3, 3 -> 4
3, 4 -> 2
3, 5 -> 6
3, 6 -> 2
4, 1 -> 0
4, 2 -> 0
4, 3 -> 2
4, 4 -> 0
4, 5 -> 4
4, 6 -> 0
5, 1 -> 4
5, 2 -> 4
5, 3 -> 6
5, 4 -> 4
5, 5 -> 8
5, 6 -> 4
6, 1 -> 0
6, 2 -> 0
6, 3 -> 2
6, 4 -> 0
6, 5 -> 4
6, 6 -> 0
3, 1, 5 -> 6
4, 5, 2 -> 4
4, 3, 5 -> 6
1, 4, 4 -> 0
5, 5, 2 -> 8
4, 1, 1 -> 0
3, 4, 1 -> 2
4, 3, 5 -> 6
4, 4, 5 -> 4
4, 2, 1 -> 0
3, 5, 5, 2 -> 10
6, 1, 4, 6, 3 -> 2
3, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3 -> 4
3, 6, 1, 2, 5, 2, 5 -> 10


This is so shortest submission in bytes, wins! If you liked this challenge, consider upvoting it... And happy golfing!

• Suggestion: Since you offer to let people play it themselves with the TIO link, consider giving a small warning of some sort before explaining what the solution/rule is. I was a bit confused after reading both paragraphs and then poking in different numbers thinking there would be some additional rule to figure out, only to find that the results were precisely as described. – Klaycon Mar 2 at 21:47
• The intro presents the game as having some rule that must be discovered. The reader is then invited to try and find the rule themselves by visiting the TIO link, collapsing the header, and trying inputs themselves - but immediately following this invitation is an explanation of what the rule is, without any indication as such. For me at least I didn't realize that explanation was the "rule" and proceeded to try figuring it out, leading to some confusion and lost time when there seemed to be nothing more to it. – Klaycon Mar 2 at 22:51
• @Klaycon that actually makes a lot of sense, I edited it into the challenge. I hope it makes it more clear now. – RGS Mar 2 at 23:04
• Could you put actual spoiler tags to hide the rule? – JiK Mar 3 at 12:20
• @Veskah you have to return 0, sorry. – RGS Mar 6 at 17:46

# Wolfram Language (Mathematica), 25 bytes

Tr[(Mod[#,2]#//.0->1)-1]&


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# Red, 48 bytes

func[b][s: 0 foreach a b[s: a - 1 *(a % 2)+ s]s]


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# Charcoal, 7 bytes

ＩΣ＆⁶ＸＡ³


Try it online! Link is to verbose version of code. Port of @Arnauld's Python answer, as Charcoal supports vectorising those operations. Explanation:

     Ａ  Input array
Ｘ ³ Cubed (vectorises)
⁶    Literal 6
＆     Bitwise And (vectorises)
Σ      Sum
Ｉ       Cast to string for implicit print


Since ＆ is commutative, the ⁶ is placed first in order to keep it separate from the ³.

# GolfScript, 10 bytes

0\{3?6&+}/


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• Aaaah, beat me to posting the 10-byter - took me a good while to notice I had to toss the 0 up front to get it to work. I spent a while getting the block to fit five bytes, and figured the cube answer just a tad too late. Well done! – Mathgeek Mar 2 at 13:20
• This appears to use hard-coded input. Is it meant to be a function, a full program or just a snippet? If it is a function then shouldn't it be reusable? – Jo King Mar 2 at 21:55
• @JoKing this takes input via one of the methods allowed by default. – Grimmy Mar 2 at 21:59
• So it's a function then? Can you reuse it? I have doubts as to whether it counts as a function when not surrounded by {} – Jo King Mar 2 at 22:00
• I don’t think it really matters whether it’s a function, since the input / output methods allowed are the same. Worst case, I can change it to inputting an array of bytes from STDIN, but that’s not gonna look pretty on TIO since byte values 1‑6 are unprintables. – Grimmy Mar 2 at 22:07

# C (gcc), 38 bytes

b;f(int*a){b=(b=*a++)?b%2*~-b+f(a):0;}


Input as 0-terminated array a.

Recursive function.

-10 bytes thanks to Arnauld!

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• Using a 0-terminated list would save 3 bytes. – Arnauld Mar 2 at 13:17
• Going recursive saves 7 more bytes. – Arnauld Mar 2 at 13:22

# Ruby, 23 21 bytes

->a{a.sum{|x|x**9&6}}


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Actually using the same idea as Arnauld, only with bigger numbers. Read his explanation and upvote him.

• Might as well take a single array as input instead of splatting the 2 arguments, since some other answers are doing the same. – Value Ink Mar 2 at 19:21

# Batch, 101 90 Bytes

@Set _=0
@For %%A in (%*) Do @For %%B in (3,5) DO @IF %%A EQU %%B Set /A _+=%%B-1
@Set _


11 bytes saved using Neil's suggestions

• I'm not sure that the output of SET _ counts as acceptable. But you can save some bytes by removing @ECHO OFF and putting the @ at the start of each line and after )DO @. You can also loop over 3 and 5 using a simple For loop without /L, although doing arithmetic on the value would probably be shorter still. – Neil Mar 3 at 17:14
• Correct in the savings using @ and dropping /L. old habbits die hard. As for using set to output the result, I can't say I understand why you think it wouldn't count. – T3RR0R Mar 3 at 21:14
• I have this vague memory of seeing some answer (on a different question and in a different language) where this was an issue, so I thought it was best to seek clarification. – Neil Mar 3 at 22:31
• @Neil thanks for the worries, I would say I don't really mind :) the point is clearly computing the answer – RGS Mar 3 at 23:01
• golfed another 19 bytes off: lingering environment changes (SET) causing inaccurate results are not part of the answer's concern. pastebin.com/MikFWfG9 – HackingAddict1337 Apr 27 at 12:41

# Bash + Core utilities, 37353430 29 bytes

sed s/5/33/\;p|tr -cd 3|wc -c


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Shortened by 1 byte: Thanks to @user41805 for pointing out that OP is allowing the program to require one number per line, which lets me eliminate the g flag from the sed command.

Shortened by 4 bytes thanks to @Neil! The change is to use sed to print the output twice, before counting characters, eliminating the need to double the character count.

I was going to use the formula n%2*(n-1), but then I saw that everybody else had the same idea, so I decided to do something different.

Input is a list of integers between 1 and 6, inclusive, on stdin, with one number per line.

Output is on stdout.

The 30-byte version:

Uses @Neil's idea of using sed to print the line twice, eliminating the need to double the number.

The 34-byte version:

One byte shorter: instead of multiplying by 2, I now add the number to itself.

How the 35-byte version worked:

1. Replace every instance of 5 by 33. (The number of 3s is now half the desired answer.)
2. Delete all characters except 3. (This even eliminates the \n at the end of the line.)
3. Use wc (without the -c option this time) to print the number of lines, the number of words, and the number of characters, separated by spaces.
4. Use dc to double the number of characters, ignoring the number of lines and the number of words.

How the original 37-byte version worked:

1. Replace every instance of 5 by 33.
2. Replace every instance of 3 by 33. (In particular, every 5 in the original string has now become 3333.)
3. Delete all characters except 3. (This even eliminates the \n at the end of the line.)
4. Count and print the number of characters in what remains. (Every 3 in the original string has been replaced by 33, every 5 has been replaced by 3333, and everything else has been removed.)

In looking through the various submissions, it turns out that @Neil's Retina answer had used the same method as my original 37-byte version (but he was earlier). I wasn't sure at first, since I've never used Retina, but @Neil confirmed it.

The newer versions work somewhat differently, though.

• Yes, my Retina answer does use the same approach; the first two pairs of lines correspond to your sed substitutions while the final line is roughly equivalent to grep -o 3|wc -l (although obviously for a single character your tr approach is golfier). – Neil Mar 2 at 12:45
• Thanks -- that's what I thought when I read your answer. Retina looks like an interesting language; I'll check it out. – Mitchell Spector Mar 2 at 18:41
• Seeing your latest answer makes me wonder - can you make sed print each line twice, thus doubling the number of 3s? – Neil Mar 2 at 19:44
• Interesting idea, @Neil -- thanks, I'll check it out. – Mitchell Spector Mar 2 at 19:48
• Thanks, @Neil! That saved 4 bytes! – Mitchell Spector Mar 2 at 19:58

# Powershell, 32 18bytes

1.."$args"|?{$_%2}


Example input 6 will output

1
3
5


Saved 14 bytes thanks to @mazzy

• Hey, thanks for your submission! You may want to consider including a tio link, or at least a screenshot of the results of your program for a couple of test cases! :D Ping me when you do that! – RGS Mar 5 at 18:15
• @RGS done it. Please verify! I have run it in tio and It works. – Wasif Hasan Mar 5 at 18:19
• I don't understand your example output for input 6. I wanted you to include a link for your code. Try checking the other answers: the vast majority has a link in the end that you can click, to try their code. – RGS Mar 5 at 18:25
• I don't know how to add a tio link with code. – Wasif Hasan Mar 5 at 18:26
• It is easy. In the tio.run site, you choose the programming language you were using and put the code there. Then, on top of the page, there will be a couple of buttons. A triangle pointing to the right can be used to run the code. The button to the right shows a link. If you click that, you can copy a link to the code on tio! Then you just have to include it in your answer by substituting the link in this text: [Try it online](your link here) – RGS Mar 5 at 22:18

# PowerShell, 29 bytes

$args|?{$_%2}|%{$i+=$_-1}
+$i  Try it online! Takes input via splatting • How can I test your submission with 3 or more inputs? :) – RGS Mar 6 at 17:26 • @RGS Like this – Veskah Mar 6 at 17:29 # APL+WIN, 16 bytes Prompts for vector of integers +/2 4[(3 5⍳⎕)~3]  Try it online! Courtesy of Dyalog Classic # Keg, -rR , 13 bytes ÷0&(¦32⑼|54⑼™  Try it online! On days like these, kids like you, should be grateful that SBCS's exist. Because otherwise, this'd be 21 bytes. Input is taken as a number with no commas. So a roll of 5, 5, 3 would be inputted as 553. ## Explanation ÷ # Item split the implicit input. 0& # Store 0 in the register. ( # For each item in the stack: ¦ # Switch statement: 32⑼ # If the item is 3, add 2 to the register. |54⑼ # If the item is 5, add 4 to the register. ™ # End switch statement. # -rR prints the value in the register rawly. In other words, as a number.  • What are the rR flags for? – RGS Mar 2 at 8:58 • @RGS -rR prints the value in the register rawly. In other words, as a number. – Lyxal Mar 2 at 9:04 • @RGS more accurately: at the end of the program, whatever is stored in the register will be printed as if ⑻. had been appended to the program after autocompletion of brackets. – Lyxal Mar 2 at 10:06 # Rabbit~, 31 _[.0{.51}{+.2}{.53}{+.4}>]_+++:  Explanation: _ - Move to input [.0 >] - Loop over die rolls {.51}{+.2} - If die roll is 3 add 2 {.53}{+.4} - If die roll is 5 add 4 _+++: - Move out of the way, flush and print addition result  51 and 53 is ascii for 3 and 5 # Husk, 6 bytes Σm←f%2  Try it online! Direct port of my Haskell answer.  f%2 Take the odd numbers m← Decrement them Σ Sum  # Pure data, 401 bytes #N canvas;#X obj 0 0 inlet;#X obj 0 0 list split 1;#X obj 0 0 i;#X obj 0 0 outlet;#X msg 0 0 0;#X obj 0 0 t l;#X obj 0 0 del;#X obj 0 0 expr$i2+$i1%2*($i1>>1);#X obj 0 0 i;#X connect 0 0 4 0;#X connect 0 0 5 0;#X connect 1 0 7 0;#X connect 1 1 5 0;#X connect 1 2 6 0;#X connect 2 0 3 0;#X connect 4 0 8 0;#X connect 5 0 1 0;#X connect 6 0 2 0;#X connect 7 0 8 0;#X connect 8 0 7 1;#X connect 8 0 2 1;


Pure Data is a graphical programming language for audio processing.

Here is what my the source looks like:

It is pretty unreadable since I saved bytes by placing all elements at coordinate 0 0. Here it is reorganized so you can read the elements.

It is important to note that execution in pure data sometimes depends on the order in which objects were created, which is not visible in images like this. For this answer to work The inlet object must be connected to the 0 message before the t 1 object. This shows up in the source code as that connection being earlier on.

Most of the program is just list processing. The logic is actually handled in the expr block

#X obj 0 0 expr $i2+$i1%2*($i1>>1);  Here $i1 is the current element and \$i2 is the result of the last expr. So this bitshifts the element down by one, which is intended result for odd numbers. To make even numbers we then multiply it by its 2 modulus, which is zero for even numbers and 1 for odd numbers.

Thanks to 0 ' for working on this with me.

# JavaScript (V8), 34 bytes

r=>r.map(i=>d+=i&1&&i>>1<<1,d=0)|d


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