The darts puzzle within the Billiard Room is a Blue Prince puzzle you’ll encounter early throughout your day by day expeditions by means of Mt. Holly.
Whereas not important for reaching the fabled Room 46, it’s nonetheless price taking the time to resolve the darts puzzle on every run. Fixing the darts puzzle rewards you with a randomized key (or two!), which may also help you get by means of locked doorways.
Right here’s the way to resolve the Billiard Room dart puzzle in Blue Prince.
Tips on how to resolve the darts puzzle within the Billiards Room
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Each time you draft the Billiard Room, you’ll be capable of entry the darts puzzle. As with each good dive, it’s positioned on the far wall behind the pool desk.
At its core, the darts puzzle is a sequence of randomized mathematical equations. Every colour represents a mathematical operate to its corresponding quantity on the darts board. Yow will discover what operate every colour represents through the use of the magnifying glass on a doc within the Nook, which reveals the next:
- Blue = addition
- Yellow = subtraction
- Pink = multiplication
- Purple = division
Be aware that PEMDAS — the parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction order of operations — doesn’t apply right here. Quite, the order of operations for every darts puzzle equation begins from the ring closest to the bullseye and strikes its manner outward.
Additionally in our testing, at the least within the early goings, the primary equation consists of only one blue quantity. Since X quantity + 0 = X quantity, choose the quantity that’s highlighted in blue and also you’ll transfer on to the second equation. At that time, although, it’s a must to really do some math.
Let’s undergo a full sequence of examples for the darts puzzle:
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For this one, 20 is marked blue and three is marked yellow.
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On this one, 1 is blue and 17 is pink.
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On this one, 10 is blue and a couple of is purple. Since 2 / 10 doesn’t divide right into a quantity that exists on a dartboard…
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Right here’s the place it will get extra difficult. Bear in mind the rule concerning the order of operations? On this case, the blue 13 is your base quantity, then the yellow 3, the pink 5, and the purple 10. Breaking it down…
13 – 3 = 10
10 x 5 = 50
50 / 10 = 5
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When you resolve the ultimate puzzle, the dartboard will shift upward, revealing your reward of both keys, a silver key (which results in rooms with a number of doorways), a Secret Backyard Key, or an digital keycard (which unlocks electronically locked doorways).
Superior darts puzzle symbols
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In accordance with our testing, the extra occasions you full the darts puzzle, the extra difficult every equation will get — even folding in some newer, extra flummoxing math symbols.
Listed below are some further symbols — set in both the bullseye or order border of the dartboard — we’ve encountered alongside temporary definitions of what they imply. You’ll apply these symbols after doing no matter steps correspond with the colour of the bullseye.
- Sq. = ^2
- Diamond = reverse the numbers
- Purple dots = repeat this step primarily based on what number of dots are displayed
- Purple X = skip this step
- Purple / = slash your remaining quantity in half
- Two squiggly traces = spherical (up or down) to the closest 1
- 4 squiggly traces = spherical to the closest 10
- Six squiggly traces = spherical to the closest 100
- The part of the dartboard is 1/3 full = divide that quantity by 3
As one game-feeds staffer put it in our Slack channel, “there was a time when i favored the billiards room puzzle however now that i’m on day 50 or so, i hate the billiards room puzzle.”
For extra Blue Prince guides, try our full walkthrough on the way to attain Room 46, discover ways to resolve the breaker field puzzle, the way to discover the terminal password, the place to search out the Secret Backyard Key, or learn the way to open the Storage door, Orchard Gate, and West Gate.
