Gaming How To Solve Today’s NYT Pips Puzzles, Monday August 24 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.
Monday, Monday. Day of the moon. Day of returning to work after a weekend filled with fun and games. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have more fun and games. Let’s have some right now!
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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.
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 This funky-looking Pips isn’t really any discernable shape or letter or animal. And there’s not entirely obvious starting points, though I did notice right off the bat that there are only two dominoes with 2 pips. One is 2/2 and the other is 2/6. We can’t really put the 2/2 from Orange 2 to either Green > 8 or Dark Blue = which means we have to use the 2/6. The only sensible place to begin, then, is . . .
Place the 2/6 domino from Orange 2 up into Green > 8 and the 6/1 domino above that from Green > 8 into Orange 1. Th 0/5 goes from Orange 1 into Purple 10 and the 10/4 from Purple 10 into Pink =.
Hard Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Step 2 We know we can’t make Dark Blue 2 work with a single domino so we have to place the 4/3 domino from Pink = over into Blue = and the 0/3 domino from Dark Blue 2 into Blue =. The 3/3 domino goes in…