Blue Prince: How to solve Dartboard puzzle in the Billiards room

There are several intimidating puzzles to solve in Blue Prince, but none of them seem as complicated as the Darboard puzzle in the Billiard room. Thankfully, we’ve gathered some tips and tricks for it to make your problem-solving experience easier. 

The Dartboard puzzle in Blue Prince isn’t about throwing darts as you may think. Rather, it requires you to bring your mathematical skills to the table. It has a number of quirky rules you need to be aware of, but once you learn the basics, you’d be scoring these riddles in seconds. Here’s how to crack the Dartboard puzzle in Blue Prince.

How to solve the Dartboard Billiard Room puzzle in Blue Prince

The Dartboard puzzle in Blue Prince has a few basic mechanics you have to keep in mind. For starters, each of those colors on the board indicates a mathematical operation. The circular board is divided into 20 parts, each representing a number. There are multiple inner circles, too, divided into several parts to help you build an equation to solve.

Here’s what the color codes indicate:

• Blue: Addition
• Yellow: Subtraction
• Pink: Multiplication
• Purple: Division

Instead of the iconic BODMAS rule, the Dartboard puzzle follows a system of its own: It uses the partitions on the board to decide which operation to solve first. To elaborate further, you begin from the center and solve your way out to the edge of the circle. 

Here’s a basic Dartboard puzzle that spawned during one of my sessions to help you understand:

1. We start with the number in blue, which is 10 in the first inner circle from the center. Since it’s the first number we have in the equation, we add it to zero: 0+10=10.
2. In the second inner circle, we have two numbers—four and two—depicted in yellow (subtraction). So, we subtract those two numbers from the result that we got in step one: 10-4-2=4.
3. In the third inner circle, we have one pink (multiplication) operation with two. So, we multiply two with the result we got in step two: 2×4=8.
4. In the fourth inner circle, we have one purple (division) operation with two. So, we divide the result we got in step three with two: 8/2=4. 
5. The answer is four.

As you progress in days or draft Billiard Rooms at higher ranks, these puzzles will get substantially difficult. In fact, you may soon encounter a colored square or other symbols at the center or edge of your Dartboard, leaving you wondering what they depict.

Here’s a table to explain what these Dart Puzzle symbols mean in Blue Prince and how to tackle them. 

How to make the Dartboard puzzle permanently easier in Blue Prince

If you want to eliminate the headache of solving complicated math in Blue Prince, look for Upgrade Disks as you explore the manor. This is a rare item, but if you find one, you can use it to permanently upgrade the Billiard Room at a terminal and force it to spawn easier puzzles.

Terminals are found in four rooms: Security Room, Office, Laboratory, and Shelter.

What can you get after completing Dartboard puzzles in Blue Prince?

You’re usually rewarded with an electronic keycard after completing one of these mathematical riddles. But you may find keys and other items inside the safe, too. As you progress and successfully solve more complicated versions of these puzzles, you may uncover rarer items.