hahaha. me too. it wasn’t until after reading moes lotion’s proof and corroborated with indistinguishable’s that i finally laid that dime down flat (in my head).
The whole trick is that the words “rotation” and “revolution” do not mean the same thing in the context of this question. Using two quarters with the eagles head to head and rolling one around the other, the edge of the moving (rolling) quarter makes one complete revolution around the static quarters until it comes back to the head to head position, but it rotates twice around it’s own axis while making this trip.
Sure, but the wording given in, say, post #2 just mentions “revolution upon its own axis” and “rolling … around a fixed wheel”. The word “rotation” never comes up, and the uses of “revolution” and “rolling” make clear what is meant. The puzzle isn’t one of trick wording.