Bug in Billiard Room?

[Mr.Oscar]

16 x 8 + 2 : 5 = 26??
But In game the answer is 20?

Is there something I am not understanding Or Is this perhaps an bug?

[Gorlom[Swe]]

I think you got multiply and divide mixed around.

16 (blue)
16 /8 = 2 (dark purple)
2+2 = 4 (blue)
4*5 = 20 (pink)

Without seeing the board there isnt much anyone can do except suggest you got turned around.

[Mr.Oscar]

First Pink

Then again Blue Now its 130

And last one was Purple. And that does not make any sense.

[Mr.Oscar]

But eh. :D Might been just me that I miss order it in some point. Probably in beginning.
That would explain why I got it wrong in the first place.

[Gorlom[Swe]]

Any chance you can provide a screenshot?

[adrien_perleflamme]

You're supposed to use the signs from the center to the border. So, it's always addition before anything else. Then subtraction. Then multiplication. Then division. Until you get other operations, of course.

[Gorlom[Swe]]

Originally posted by adrien_perleflamme:

You're supposed to use the signs from the center to the border. So, it's always addition before anything else. Then subtraction. Then multiplication. Then division. Until you get other operations, of course.

I belive i have sen boards start with minus usually when they square at some point.
I have had pink in both second innermost and outermost at the same time.

At some point they start switching it up and dont follow inner ring is +, second ring is minus third ring is multiply and fourth ring is div..

I guess a relevant question for Oscar is how many of the boards has he done so far? (the note in the hallway lists how many when you mouseover that trophy)

[Scrungus]

It's not obvious but when there are multiple reds in the same ring you multiply by each number separately and the same thing goes for purples.

[Silyon]

Order of Operations. You always work from inner-most to outer-most, regardless of conventional order of operations. You can consider each "Ring" or "layer" of the dartboard to be enclosed in it's own set of parenthesis.

It's pretty evident that any answer to the Dartboard must be a whole number between 1 and 20. Therefore any potential answer that falls outside of that must be incorrect for some mathematical reason. Keeping this in mind will help as puzzles grow more complex.

[adrien_perleflamme]

Originally posted by GorlomSwe:

Originally posted by adrien_perleflamme:

You're supposed to use the signs from the center to the border. So, it's always addition before anything else. Then subtraction. Then multiplication. Then division. Until you get other operations, of course.

I belive i have sen boards start with minus usually when they square at some point.
I have had pink in both second innermost and outermost at the same time.

At some point they start switching it up and dont follow inner ring is +, second ring is minus third ring is multiply and fourth ring is div..

I guess a relevant question for Oscar is how many of the boards has he done so far? (the note in the hallway lists how many when you mouseover that trophy)

Well, yeah, it's always the order I suggested until some point, hence the spoiler to give away the point at which it changes (at least in my experience).

[Gorlom[Swe]]

ok, that wasn't clear to me. The way you phrased it suggested that the other operations were what was the change to the order.

[Mr.Oscar]

It was:
First Ring = 16 (blue)
Second Ring = 16 /8 = 2 (dark purple)
Third Ring = 2+2 = 4 (blue)
Forth Ring = 4*5 = 20 (pink)

I was just honestly Either Drunk or just having brain farts to try memories everything out of my memory. But none the less it was solvable. As Gorlem Solved it beginning of this post. All good

[DrDeath8520]

In short: dartboard maths questions cannot be answered without a screenshot. There are many additional rules and variations on the base set that get added over time, and it is very likely that when your answer is wrong you've:
A: misunderstood a rule
B: missed a colour/symbol
C: made a mathematical error (we all do it sometimes haha)

[Mr.Oscar]

Originally posted by GorlomSwe:

I guess a relevant question for Oscar is how many of the boards has he done so far? (the note in the hallway lists how many when you mouseover that trophy)

Right now, I have solved total 20 of Billiard boards. So it starts to get bit confusing. But Since you can just brute force some answer. You can pretty much do infinite amount. And would not be surprised if this changes in some point. But I would always try do the math first before trying brute force the answer.

[Mr.Oscar]

Originally posted by DrDeath8520:

In short: dartboard maths questions cannot be answered without a screenshot. There are many additional rules and variations on the base set that get added over time, and it is very likely that when your answer is wrong you've:
A: misunderstood a rule
B: missed a colour/symbol
C: made a mathematical error (we all do it sometimes haha)

Most likely missed the color.

[Harwin]

Around puzzle 20 they stopped doing the colors in the same order, if you were used to doing operations in a fixed order, that's probably what got you.