How to recover restriction passcode that i forgot?

attempted 22 tries to turn off my restriction passcode,never succeed.

The recommended solution is that you have to reset the device as new because if you restore from a backup, the backup will also have the forgotten Passcode in it and yo will just be restoring that Passcode to the iPad. However, if you have a backup that does not contain the Passcode, you can restore from that backup and that should solve the problem.
If you are a little more daring, I found this in my Pages app. I copied this months ago and forgot all about it. You can read it and see if you want to give it a try. Everything inside of the + signs is what I copied from another discussion and they are not my instructions.
+1. Download iPhone Backup Extractor http://supercrazyawesome.com/ (This is for OSX, if you are using Windows there are other Backup Extractor programs although my iPhone syncs with a Mac so you will have to tweak these directions to work with the Windows program, here is one of the Windows programs I found: http://www.iphonebackupextractor.com/)
2. Extract the Zip file you downloaded, move the App to your Applications folder, then run the App
3. Click on Read Backups, in the window that pops up click on the backup file of the device you need the lost pin for, then click Choose
4. You will have a list of all the Apps on the phone. Scroll to the bottom of the list and click on iOS Files, then click on Extract. Choose a folder where you want the files to be extracted to.
5. After it finishes extracting go to the folder where you extracted the files and follow this directory path: iOS Files --> Library --> Preferences
6. In that folder find the file "com.apple.springboard.plist" and open it. (Read note below if on Windows)
7. In Property List Editor look for the key titled "SBParentalControlsPin"
8. Look to the right of that entry and you will see the 4 digit PIN. You can now remove/modify parental controls
(NOTE: If you are on Windows and do not have a program that will read PLIST files then open the file with Notepad instead. It will mostly look like garbled junk and words running together but towards the end of the file look for 4 successive digits, if there is more than one place with 4 successive digits then try them all, one of them will be your pin).+

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