Gaming NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Wednesday, August 5 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.
Wednesday, Odin’s Day, and rain on the horizon. Many problems to solve, projects to finish and dominoes to lay down on colorful tiles. Today’s Pips puzzles are tricky, especially the Medium and Hard. Let’s solve them, shall we?
Looking for Tuesday ’ s Pips? Read our guide right here .
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.
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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 another one of these mildly annoying ones that are challenging mostly because they have so few obvious starting points and require lots of trial and error. Or maybe I’m just in a grouchy mood. Either way, notice there are only two 3’s in your domino stash and both will be needed for two specific tiles. The rest of the “3” tiles are > or < and there are an annoying abundance of these. We just don’t know which way they should go yet, so skip those for now. We have four 6’s in our stash as well, all of which will be needed in Dark Blue and Purple 12. That’s a better place to begin, even if some guessing is still very much required.
Start with the 6/0 domino from Dark Blue 12 up into Purple = and the 6/4 domino from dark Blue 12 down into Orange =. The 2/5 domino goes into Green < 3 down into Pink > 3. The 6/1 domino…