Today’s Nit Pips hints and solutions for Friday, 12. September

It’s a little hard for me to keep my mind from news. Current jobs are what they are, it’s all pretty dark and depressed. But I’ll be distracted from all this madness, playing games. Specifically, PIPS match. Let’s solve today’s.

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How to play pips

In PIPS you have a multicolor box network. Any colored area represents a different “state” you need to achieve. You have a number of Domin’s products that you need to spend charging in the network. You must use each domino and to achieve any condition correctly to win. There are easy, medium and heavy layers.

Here is an example of difficulty tier pipes:

An example of PIPS

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As you can see, the network has a bunch of symbols and numbers with each color. On the other hand, three purple squares must not be one of the same equal (hence the equal sign stopped). Two pink squares next to that must be equal to a total of 0. Zig-zeagging blue square must be equal to each other. Click on Domains to rotate them and they will need to rotate to fit where they belong.

Not shown on this network are other conditions, such as “less than” or “higher”. If there are multiple tiles with> or

• = All pips must equal equal to each other in this group.
• = All pips must not equal to each other in this group.
• > PIP in this tile (or tiles) must be higher than the specified number.
• The correct number (like 6) PIP must be equal to the correct number.
• Tiles without conditions cannot be anything.

To win, you must use all your domins by filling out all squares, be sure to fit each state. Play today’s puzzles here.

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Today’s Solution for Pips

Below are solutions for simple and medium plates. After that, I’ll walk you through a difficult puzzle. Spoiler forward.

Light

Today’s Pips

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Middle

Today’s Pips

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Tough

Let’s make complete hallways of today’s heavy pips. It starts like this:

Today’s Pips

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I’m not sure what this pipper should be, but I’m going with a donkey. A donkey named Pipsi. This donkey has a very large trace hidden in the ear. The purple 1 tile on top is a easy place to start, because there is only one domino with 1 pip.

The second big mark in this puzzle is three 0 tiles. There are exactly three dominoes with empty sides, so we know each of them must go into one of the three tiles.

We also have two large total groups: Green 30, which must use five 6 domestic pipes, and dark blue 20, which (given 6s for green) must use four 5 Domin’s faucets.

I put 1/4 Domino in the Pink Group = to start and then prophesy 4/5 domino from blue 4 in pink =. It meant that we had 5 and 4 in pink tiles, so I used 0/3 domino from orange 0 in pink =. Just to circle my head, I covered 2/5 of the pink = in a dark blue 20, as so:

Today’s Pips

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I originally put 0/5 domino in pink 0 / purple = in a misty tail. I realized that it left me without an option to make a dark blue 20 in green 30 (I needed 5/6 to do it with 0/4 and put it in a 6/6 domino next to that and 5/5 domino in dark blue, as so:

Today’s Pips

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The rest was quite simple. I put 5/6 domino from dark blue 20 down in green 30. 6/3 Domino wrapped green 30 and crossed the free tile. The final two domains entered the donkeys of the legs, as well:

Today’s Pips

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I like these forms of animals. It makes me think of animal crackers. I prefer the animal creckers to death because of ordinary. Now I’m craving for animals crackers, take it.

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