Gaming NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Monday, July 20 By Erik Kain ,
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Today's Pips Credit: NYT Looking for help with today’s Easy, Medium and Hard NYT Pips puzzles? Whether you’re after a nudge in the right direction or just want to compare notes, below you’ll find everything you need to solve each of today’s Pips plus a full walkthrough for today’s
Monday, Monday. Here we go again. We’re in the third act of July now, though we still have one more Monday after this, and plenty of time to enjoy this rainy, summery month. Grab your dominoes, Pipsqueaks, and let’s get puzzling.
Looking for Sunday ’ s Pips? Read our guide right here .
In Pips, you have a grid of multicolored 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.
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Here’s an example of a difficult tier Pips:
Pips example Screenshot: Erik Kain 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:
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.
Easy Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Today’s Medium Pips Medium Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Hard Pips Walkthrough And Solution Here’s today’s Hard Pips:
Hard Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Today’s Hard Pips is a penguin. Or perhaps a puffin. I’m going with penguin, however, and not the Batman villain. The cute aquatic bird. There’s not an obvious starting point, but we do have lots and lots of 6’s in our domino stash, so I’m going with 6’s for for the Dark Blue center, and 1’s for Green =. That should get us started.
Place the 6/0 domino from Dark Blue = up into Orange = and the 0/0 domino in the remaining Orange = tiles. The 6/1 domino goes from Dark Blue = into Green = and the 1/0 domino from Green = into Blue 0.
Hard Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Step 2 Place the 6/5 domino from Dark Blue = into Pink > 3 and the 6/3 domino from Dark Blue = into Purple =. The 3/3 domino fills up the remaining Purple = tiles and the 1/1 domino fills in the remaining Green = tiles.
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