Puzle 22 - Don't understand the puzzle

[GAMING_Alligator]

I'm not sure if I missed an explanation somewhere earlier in the game (I'm pretty sure I didn't, but can't find a similar thread so maybe I did or its just obvious to everyone else), but could someone please help me undertand what's being asked for here?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=936047593

I don't mean the solution, but the actual puzzle mechanic that's being expressed by having different totals on the left and right of a line of blocks. I haven't seen that before.

[j.mcleod]

Think about how the order of the symbols affects the outcome.

An unrelated example:

+1 x 2 +2 = 4

+2 x 2 +1 = 5

The game doesn't employ any form of the usual mathematical ordering (i.e. Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition then Subtraction).

[GAMING_Alligator]

Originally posted by j.mcleod:

Think about how the order of the symbols affects the outcome.

An unrelated example:

+1 x 2 +2 = 4

+2 x 2 +1 = 5

The game doesn't employ any form of the usual mathematical ordering (i.e. Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition then Subtraction).

I'm not sure I understand how that helps me, it doesn't seem to be related to my question (or I'm not seeing how it's related).

Specifically, my question was what do the numbers 13 on the left and the 7 on the right actually mean in this puzzle?

The only thing I've seen before is the sum on the right, so I don't understand how I'm meant to use the fact that I now have a sum on either side of the row.

[GAMING_Alligator]

So for anybody else scratching their head about it, I finally worked it out (but more by accident than by design).

The position of those numbers tells you the direction in which to solve the problem. So for the level I posted, the 7 tells you that starting form the left, going right, you need to combine the numbers to get 7, but if you start from right, going left, those same numbers need to combine to make 13.

[D.A.R.K.]

When you see ">" or "<" [works vertically as well] means you need to use in that order to find the resolution. In that case, we have:

13 < +1 x2 x3 +4 +5 > 7

This means, to LEFT from RIGHT, you need to use some of those tiles to find 7 as answer.
This also means, to RIGHT from LEFT, you need to use some of those tiles to find 13.

Got it? You can see from different directions and find different results to the math.
I will give you the answer, but I will put the spoiler tag =)

13 < +1 x2 x3 +4 +5 > 7

You will use: +1, x3 and +4;

from LEFT to RIGHT: 1 x 3 + 4 = 7;
from RIGHT to LEFT: 4 x 3 + 1 = 13;


PS.: There's only ONE WAY to do it.

[BlueRaja]

It's a tutorial, to teach you the new mechanic. Try out different things and figure out the mechanic.

[Zell]

This is coming in 2 years late, but thanks for posting the explanation. The game doesn't explain this at all, and I was too tired to brainstorm without direction.