3 weeks Ago By [email protected] (Tom Bardwell)
I’ve played a lot of Blue Prince recently to the point that this deceptively complex puzzler has annoyingly seeped into my nights. One recent feverish dream involved an unsolvable dartboard puzzle. It took on the shape of an endless Sisyphean slog through several stages only to fail the last.
Over and over again. As hard as I tried, there was just no solution and the dartboard never heaved upward to reveal the concealed cubby.I won’t harp on too much about it because no one’s all that interested in what goes on inside my noggin when I’m lying supine.
Let’s just say I’m not one for mathematics so me and that run-slowing puzzle have been at odds. I’ve pushed past day 70 and every visit to the dartboard is unintelligible numerical hell and a hurdle to more pressing metapuzzles and attempting to wrangle RNG in my favour. I dread and fear it, the snappy rush of solving fairly-simple mathematical operations long gone.
I hate the dartboard with a passion, but pigheadedness means I’m never leaving without something to show for spending longer than I’d care to admit in that cursed room.I’d wager a lot of Blue Prince players have a similarly contentious relationship with it. Solving increasingly tougher mathematical operations starts to grate past day 40 when squiggly lines, red dots, number flips, and square roots make their debut.
Yes, you can skip it entirely, but a keycard, special key, or a pair of standard keys is too good to pass up early in a run. Also, the Bullseye Trophy for solving 40 dartboard puzzles is one of the game’s less tangled and convoluted achievements. It’s low-hanging fruit by Blue Prince’s standards.
The Billiard Room’s L shape also makes it really rather useful when filling up the lower ranks of that ever-shifting manor so it’s hard to pass up. It’d be silly not to at least try to solve the puzzle every time you draft the room.An absolute boon for the mathematically averse.
Credit Lymm37/Captured by VideoGamerOut of desperation and with a bit of luck I stumbled on this nifty little Blue Prince dartboard puzzle solver. Don’t be fooled by the rudimentary layout and simplistic UI, it’s an absolute godsend. All you need to do is highlight the colour segments (including the bullseye if needed) and input any symbols or fractions as they appear in-game, tap solve, and voila, the solution! The tool replicates the puzzle’s rules to a tee, including those galling late-game tricks and sideswipes, washing away all that pain and frustration.
After extensive use it’s never failed me once. Credit and a heartfelt thank you from the maths-averse to the creator, Lymm37, for bringing it to life. Piecing it together probably wasn’t a gargantuan task, but it has made visiting the Billiard Room almost pleasant and a damn sight less tedious.
It’s become a mainstay for every visit to Mt. Holly alongside a notebook and liberal use of the screenshot key. Though purists might balk at the idea of outside help, that vile dartboard won’t be getting the better of me ever again.
Now, if only someone could cook one up for the Parlor puzzle..
