Today’s Pips
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Looking for help with today’s NYT Pips puzzles? You’ve come to the right place. Not only will you find strategies below, but full answers for each daily trio of Pips puzzles and a full walkthrough for the Hard Pips.
Another day, another Pips. Grab your dominoes, Pipsqueaks, and let’s knock ‘em down.
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In Pips, you have a grid of multi=-colored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend filling in the grid. You must use every domino and achieve every condition properly to win. There are Easy, Medium and Difficult tiers.
Here’s an example of a difficult tier Pips:
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As you can see, the grid has a bunch of symbols and numbers with each color. On the far left, the three purple squares must not equal one another (hence the equal sign crossed out). The two pink squares next to that must equal a total of 0. The zig-zagging blue squares all must equal one another. You click on dominoes to rotate them, and will need to since they have to be rotated to fit where they belong.
Not shown on this grid are other conditions, such as “less than” or “greater than.” If there are multiple tiles with > or < signs, the total of those tiles must be greater or less than the listed number. It varies by grid. Blank spaces can have anything. The various possible conditions are:
- = All pips must equal one another in this group.
- ≠ All pips must not equal one another in this group.
- > The pip in this tile (or tiles) must be greater than the listed number.
- < The pip in this tile must be less than the listed number.
- An exact number (like 6) The pip must equal this exact number.
- Tiles with no conditions can be anything.
In order to win, you have to use up all your dominoes by filling in all the squares, making sure to fit each condition. Sometimes there’s only one way to solve the puzzle. Other times, there can be two or more different solutions. Play today’s Pips puzzle here.
Below are the solutions for the Easy and Medium tier Pips. After that, I’ll walk you through the Hard puzzle. Spoilers ahead.
Today’s Easy Pips
Today’s Medium Pips
Today’s Hard Pips is the letter “S” and its lower-case counterpart “s” as in “simple” or “super” or “sleepy.” This is a shockingly, surprisingly, super simple Pips as far as these go. All I really had to do was think about how to get rid of my doubles as fast as possible, and that’s where I started . . .
Step 1
I noticed that the 1/1 plus a 6 would equal 8, perfect for Pink 8, and if we used the 6/6 right after, we could couple that with the 3/5 from Purple 9 up into Dark Blue 10. I also noticed we had lots of blank pips, so I tossed the 5/0 into Orange 4.
Step 2
Next, place the 4/6 domino from Orange 4 into Blue 6 and the 0/2 domino from Blue 6 into Purple 2. The 0/6 domino goes from Purple 2 into Pink 9 and the 3/3 domino goes from Pink 9 into the one and only free tile. Our last double is gone, and all we have left are three dominoes with different Pips across the board.
Solution
Place the 3/1, 0/4 and 5/2 dominoes into the Green ≠ group in any order you please, and you’re all done!
Have a tremendous Tuesday, Pipsqueaks!
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