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Another day, another whole new set of pips puzzles to solve. Pips is the latest game on the New York Times game app and it turned out to be a pretty hit with players. I definitely enjoy three layers of hardship. Heat with easy and medium and then test your skills against heavy. It really makes you think about how to get closer to each puzzle, finding the most popular conditions and working. Anyway, let’s solve today!
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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. You can click Dominos 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 “more than”. It varies grid. Blank spaces can have anything. Different possible conditions are:
- = All pips must equal equal to each other in this group.
- = All pips must not equal to each other in this group.
- > The PIP in this tile must be greater 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.
Today’s Solution for Pips
I will just publish a solution for easy and medium, and then enter a little more detailed and severe depth. Spoiler forward.
Light
Today’s Pips
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Middle
Today’s Pips
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Tough
Ok, we dive into a difficult level of today’s faucets. This is what the puzzle looks today:
Today’s Pips
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I’m always looking for something that can’t do anywhere else. In today’s case, green boxes that must be equal to zero were a good place to start. There were only two dominoes with the gaps (emptiness = zero pips) on them. I knew they had to go to green tiles, but I wasn’t sure exactly.
The next place for the look is an = group that has lots of tiles. There is usually just one pip that will succeed because it requires so much. The only possibility today – for a blue group five boxes – were dominoes with 1 pip on them, because it was five of them. So I set 0/1 Domino where 0 entered green and that 1 entered the blue. Then I put 0/5 domino into green and gray.
I have been looking for other specific conditions from here. The pink box (= 5) corresponds to the account, because only one domino remains. I set it up with 2 down in the dark blue group, as well:
Today’s Pips
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At this point, most of the hard work was from the outside. I moved to purple 6 and noticed that Domino was 6/4 Domino and 4/2 Domino. This meant that 6/4 could descend into the orange = group, and 4/2 can end orange and dark blue groups.
The second 6/6 Domino had to go in pink = 6 tiles. Dmino 2/2 had to go in blue = 2 tiles. The remaining 1/1 Domino filled the left plate blue = group, and 1/3 Domino filled the last plate in that group. . . And that was it! It’s pretty simple compared to someone.
Today’s Pips
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How did you do today on your pips riddles? Do you feel like you’ll get the hanging of this game? I like her quite simple, but still thinks you. I imagine to get some super challenging puzzles in the future.
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