The Billiard Puzzle is broken.

[gabeclone]

I've been playing Blue Prince for a while; I got the inheritance on the 23'rd day, and I'm just continuing on the same save, to try to get everything. The Dart Board Puzzle worked fine for a while, but now it's constantly messing up; I looked up the instructions for it, online, when I first started having trouble, so I know what all the symbols, colors, and position orders are supposed to mean... But eventually it started giving me problems that I was definitely solving correctly, but the actual solution was some other random number. And I know I was solving them correctly, because after a while, I got out a calculator to make absolutely certain that it wasn't me who was messing up. An example, i just ran into, would be Blue 2 squared, yellow 2, blue 2 (Either squared again, or not; I tried it both ways.): So that's supposed to be 2x2-2+2, or possibly 2x2-2+(2x2), right? The Answer is DEFINITELY either 4 or 6. The solution was 16.

[Levi4than]

If the square is blue, you square after each blue step

Blue 2 = 2
2 squared = 4
-2 yellow = 2
+ 2 blue = 4
4 Squared = 16

[Roan]

+2 = 2
2x2 = 4
4-2 = 4
2+2 = 4
4 squared is 16.

You're not squaring the number that's on the board, you're squaring the total *after* completing that operation.

[Gorlom[Swe]]

Originally posted by Roan:

+2 = 2
2x2 = 4
4-2 = 4
2+2 = 4
4 squared is 16.

You're not squaring the number that's on the board, you're squaring the total *after* completing that operation.

You need to check your third line. You have written 4-2 = 4.

A bit of further clarification: you don't square the result after each operation, but you square the result after each ring using that operation.
Say you got 3 blue numbers in the second ring with a blue square on the bullseye, you then add all three of them to the result of the first ring and only then square the result of that.

[Wireless Fire]

Don't square until you're there.
Also, it's kind of crazy to assume the puzzle is broken after you've played a modest amount of the game, rather than question if the rules are not what you believe them to be.
"...that I was definitely solving correctly".

[gabeclone]

Thanks, that worked... I do think that the rules should just be more clearly explained... Perhaps on the chalkboard beside the dartboard.

[Jaqalyte]

The operations are explained in various classrooms, with the basic colors in Grade 2, I think? and the advanced operations much later... 6 or 7?

[Vercci ]

Originally posted by gabeclone:

Thanks, that worked... I do think that the rules should just be more clearly explained... Perhaps on the chalkboard beside the dartboard.

You have to stop assuming you have everything needed to tackle a puzzle just because you've discovered it.

[gabeclone]

I literally described looking up the information on the puzzle, online, in order to make sure that I had a full understanding, and only after that didn't help, did I ask for help from the community... If that's assuming I have a full understanding of it... Then we have VERY DIFFERENT definitions of that phrase.

Originally posted by Vercci :

Originally posted by gabeclone:

You have to stop assuming you have everything needed to tackle a puzzle just because you've discovered it.

[Gorlom[Swe]]

Originally posted by gabeclone:

I literally described looking up the information on the puzzle, online, in order to make sure that I had a full understanding, and only after that didn't help, did I ask for help from the community... If that's assuming I have a full understanding of it... Then we have VERY DIFFERENT definitions of that phrase.

Originally posted by Vercci :

You have to stop assuming you have everything needed to tackle a puzzle just because you've discovered it.

You did say that "The Answer is DEFINITELY either 4 or 6." when you still had misunderstandings about how the puzzle worked. I don't know if the place you looked up gave you wrong information or if you misunderstood it.

The puzzle is clearly explained *in other places*, which was what Vercci was trying to explain. Not every explanation is given NEXT to the puzzle.

[Gord10]

I was also confused when the center icon was diamond. I was trying to square it, but couldn't get meaningful answers. I found out the center icons can be different than the square and they each have different meanings.