Gaming NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Wednesday, July 29 By Erik Kain ,
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Today's Pips Credit: NYT 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.
Grab your dominoes, Pipsqueaks, and let’s get to solving!
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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:
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.
Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Today’s Medium Pips Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Hard Pips Walkthrough And Solution Here’s today’s Hard Pips:
Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Today’s Hard Pips is an ostrich or perhaps a flamingo. Either that or an oddly shaped lawnmower. Let’s say flamingo and just imagine he has a little leg sticking out from his body with a few more tiles to fill up. That would maket his a super hard Hard Pips. It’s not the easiest as it stands.
Start with the 5/5 domino in the Orange 10 tiles and the 6/4 domino directly next to that, from Green 24 up into Purple 8. We need four 6’s down here and 2 up in Purple 12, so place the 6/5 next to that from Green 24 into Blue 9 and the 6/6 domino horizontally in the rest of the Green 24 tiles. Finisht his step with the 3/3 domino from Dark Blue 3 into Pink 3.
Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Step 2 Next, place the 4/1 domino from Blue 9 into Dark Blue 3 and the 2/2 domino from Dark Blue 3 into Green 5. The 3/4 domino goes from Green 5 into Purple 8 and the 1/2 domino fills up the Orange 3, which I almost called the camel’s hump. Maybe this isn’t a flamingo. MAYBE IT’S A CAME…