Someone explain this dartboard to me.

[Fiona Kaenbyou]

So I've been basically running a clean sweep so far on my dartboards about 30 days in, but I just got handed this formation and I cannot for the life of me figure out how I'm supposed to get a real answer from it.

https://i.imgur.com/uhUxvBE.png

The routes I've tried:
4^2 = 16
16/8 = 2
2 + 1 = 3
3 - 8 = -5??

4/8 = 0.5
0.5 + 1 = 1.5
1.5^2 = 2.25
2.25 - 8 = -5.75?

(4+1)^2 = 25
25/8 = 3.125
3.125 - 8 = -4.875???

No matter what I try the answer always seems to be some sort of ugly negative number which can't possibly be right.

I ended up brute forcing this puzzle and the answer the game expected was 1. I have NO idea how you get to 1 from here.

The only sensible answer I can think of is that the 4 and 8 on the inner rings are in the wrong order. Switching those around the sum becomes
8/4 = 2
2+1 = 3
3^2 = 9
9-8 = 1

Is this a bug or have I completely forgotten how to math???

[Handful_of_Dust]

When the bullseye area contains a square, you square the result after each step with a matching color. Working from the outside in, that board goes as follows:
Inner ring: 0 + 4 = 4
(Squared): 4^2 = 16
2nd ring: 16 / 8 = 2
3rd ring: 2 + 1 = 3
(Squared): 3 ^ 2 = 9
Outer ring: 9 - 8 = 1

[Acherow]

youre supposed to do the square after each blue step. so
4^2 = 16
16/8 = 2
2+1 = 3
3^2 = 9
9-8 = 1

[Jabroni]

I just used the color of the square for the order it's supposed to be in so you don't multiply it each time

Ok this one is giving me a headache lol

[Fiona Kaenbyou]

Aaaah, I never realised you had to square EVERY number of the related colour. Apologies for the confusion!

[Jabroni]

Ok so the answer is 1[\spoiler] whew that's good practice I haven't had one that hard yet

30 days in I wonder what level this is

[Handful_of_Dust]

Originally posted by Fiona Kaenbyou:

Aaaah, I never realised you had to square EVERY number of the related colour. Apologies for the confusion!

You don't. You square after any step in which you used the operation indicated by the color of the bullseye.

The different rings of the dartboard are what set the order of operations and divide one step from another, not the colors (though at first, you always get a certain color in each ring). Later on, you might get rings with different colors than you expect, but you still do them starting from the inner, wide ring of the dartboard, then the next thin ring, then the outer wide ring, and then finally the outer thin ring.

When you have something like the square in the center bullseye, you do it after any of those four steps where you used the operation indicated by the color of the bullseye.

So on this puzzle, you have two different rings that are both blue. and you have to square it after each of those rings/steps. It wouldn't matter if one of those rings had 3 colored in blocks or just 1, you still square it after you are done with that entire ring.

[Planter of Dreams]

I hope you don't mind me jumping in with a dartboard question of my own, I don't want to open the second discussion in less than a day about it.

https://imgur.com/a/GKOerXe

This is my first time getting this specific sign in the bullseye and I have no idea whats going on. It's also the sixth calculation of that puzzle - more than I had in earlier difficulties.

The first two were easy but only had 2 wavey lines in the bullseye, that was solveable with Division, rounding up and a few tries. With number 3 and 4 (4 wavey lines) I had intuitively good guesses, but I couldn't figure out the system behind it, especially with the sign changing during the puzzle.


I'm also pretty sure I guessed the whole board by now, so I appreciate any help. I had to end this day for different reasons, so I can't verify any answers, but hope someone has figured out the operation behind these wavy lines.

[Handful_of_Dust]

Originally posted by Planter of Dreams:

https://imgur.com/a/GKOerXe

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This is my first time getting this specific sign in the bullseye and I have no idea whats going on. It's also the sixth calculation of that puzzle - more than I had in earlier difficulties.

I'm also pretty sure I guessed the whole board by now, so I appreciate any help. I had to end this day for different reasons, so I can't verify any answers, but hope someone has figured out the operation behind these wavy lines.

Warning: Spoilers for what the wavy lines mean below. Don't read if you want to figure it out yourself.

The wavy lines indicate you should round the value off to some precision. 1 line at the top and bottom means "to the nearest whole number" (21.3 would become 21, 21.6 would become 22). Two wavy lines at the top and bottom mean you should round to the nearest 10. Three wavy lines are the nearest 100.

For this puzzle, that means you would do the following steps:
Innermost ring, blue: 0+10 = 10
Second ring, pink: 10 * 10 = 100
Third ring, yellow: 100 - (20+3) = 77
After the third ring you round to the nearest 100, because of the yellow bullseye modifier: 77 becomes 100.
Fourth ring, purple: 100/5 = 4

[∞DarkNinMagic Brony WTF BRBU]

Can anyone help me? I have on my board 1/3 of 20, and I don't know what to do for it?

[Acherow]

Originally posted by ∞DarkNinMagic Brony WTF BRBU:

Can anyone help me? I have on my board 1/3 of 20, and I don't know what to do for it?

can you show a screenshot of the actual board?

[Fish]

Originally posted by ∞DarkNinMagic Brony WTF BRBU:

Can anyone help me? I have on my board 1/3 of 20, and I don't know what to do for it?

The 1/3 should cancel in some way when you take into account the other steps

[Curious Duck]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3465882664 This is quite confusing. I've only discovered the notes regarding colour not shapes.

[Acherow]

Originally posted by Curious Duck:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3465882664 This is quite confusing. I've only discovered the notes regarding colour not shapes.

shapes you gotta figure out on your own as far as I can tell. square means you need to square the number after the colored step (in this case, after the subtraction.)