Not sure to understand: I see what I just collected but what cost but not what I will collect for what cost.
Here a capture :

Here, what is the difference between lightning on the first row, the one below and the one on the right?
Thinking in progress, please be patient…
Ok, I got it after experimenting more. We should not consider each tile independently but as a cluster. Having so much distance between each column and not the same distance with the rows made me consider each tile as independent. Having a more homogeneous grid with little gap would have help me understand I think.
I read again the description:
This time machine runs on resources that can be collected from the tachyon grid. Click a resource to collect all of the touching/matching resources of that type in that row and column. (See screenshots for illustration)
I may have miss that information. The screenshots are not visible, you need to setup the theme for it:
