Billiard Room Puzzles have stopped making sense

[FinetalPies]

I'm on Day 22, and while adding squares and sqroots has been great at keeping the math puzzles fresh, I just got + 16 - 2 * 1. There is no way that this isn't 14 but the answer is apparently 7.
idk if I can add a screenshot but it's blue 16, purple 2 and yellow 1, there is no mark in the center or anywhere else. Someone please help me understand this.

(As a fun bonus, I also got + 9 - 4 * 20, which is 100, and I thought: "Well 100 in base 6 is 36, and 36 mod 20 is 16, so maybe the answer is 16." And it was. Was I actually onto something or am I just losing my mind.)

Great game btw

[FinetalPies]

K typing it out did help, I was being bamboozled by the position of the indicator, not the colour. blue 16, purple 2 and yellow 1 is actually +16 - 1 / 2. Which is 7.5 but I think rounding down is the norm.

[Iavra]

Operations are done based on ring position, from inner to outer, the color dictates what operation.
So, your example would be (16 / 2) - 1 = 7.
Also, i don't think there's a square root operation, the diamond reverses the numbers.

[BobThePenguin]

The game tricks you into complacency early on. Then suddenly it changes things up after the first 20-odd puzzles and you have to reconsider your initial assumptions about it.

As for this:

Blue 16, Purple 2, Yellow 1. Assuming that's written in order from innermost to outermost, you first do 16 / 2 = 8, then subtract 1 to get 7.

[Badgerlord]

Originally posted by BobThePenguin:

The game tricks you into complacency early on. Then suddenly it changes things up after the first 20-odd puzzles and you have to reconsider your initial assumptions about it.

As for this:

Blue 16, Purple 2, Yellow 1. Assuming that's written in order from innermost to outermost, you first do 16 / 2 = 8, then subtract 1 to get 7.

Hehehe... wait until the 70th and beyond puzzles ;)

[BobThePenguin]

Originally posted by Badgerlord:

Hehehe... wait until the 70th and beyond puzzles ;)

Yep, it just keeps getting more and more complicated. :)

[Glaeneator2000]

If you go to "school" you might learn about all the possible rules in the game.

[Pandorian]

Originally posted by Glaeneator2000:

If you go to "school" you might learn about all the possible rules in the game.

You won't. Later billiards puzzles have things not mentioned in school.
The billiards board gains an extra outer ring which can have X, two dots, or a / . You can also have 1/3 of the of the light being lit up.

[Varsoon]

Never slammed a room upgrade faster in my life than SpeakEasy.

[ShadowNightPack]

Originally posted by Iavra:

Operations are done based on ring position, from inner to outer, the color dictates what operation.
So, your example would be (16 / 2) - 1 = 7.
Also, i don't think there's a square root operation, the diamond reverses the numbers.

There is no square root operations, that I have come across yet at 30+, but there is a squared operation which is a square in the center instead of the diamond

[Nokturnal]

Originally posted by ShadowNightPack:

Originally posted by Iavra:

Operations are done based on ring position, from inner to outer, the color dictates what operation.
So, your example would be (16 / 2) - 1 = 7.
Also, i don't think there's a square root operation, the diamond reverses the numbers.

There is no square root operations, that I have come across yet at 30+, but there is a squared operation which is a square in the center instead of the diamond

Yea, Diamond is reversing the current number of the equation based on color. So say it's a Blue Diamond and you're at the Blue part of the operation on the dartboard, if 13 is the number, it becomes 31. Same goes for squaring it.

If you have a Blue Square in the center and there's 2 Blue parts on the Dartboard, do the operation as normal until you're about to move onto the next step, then Square it. So imagine we have a Blue Square, and the inner circle is Blue 3, Middle Line is Yellow 5, Square 3 first to make 9 then subtract 5. Then if there's another Blue on the outer circle, Add that to 4 and Square it before moving onto the last ring of the circle.

[FinetalPies]

Yeah I have also realized there's no square root operation, I think what happened is through a combination of misunderstanding and coincidence, I thought a yellow square was like a "negative square", and this assumption did lead to the correct answer so I just kept that assumption going forward lol