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I usually give you all the names when it comes to this water guide guide guide. Gorn players are “words”. Plaiers SLANDs are “Strandistars” or “Strandistas”. The connector players are “connections.” Mini Crossword players are “Crosswordlers”. But what about PIPS players? What should we call this new gang ladies and gentlemen? Pipsees? Pipers? Pipsqueaks?
Haha, somehow like Pipskup, though it is not necessarily flattering. Hermaring? Definitely. All right, Pipqueaks, let’s solve today’s pips!
Friday‘With pips? Read our guide here.
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. Play today’s puzzles here.
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 Lak Pips
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Middle
Today’s middle pips
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Tough
Ok, we dive into a difficult level of today’s faucets. Here’s how it looked before the start:
Today’s heavy pips
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This is very frightening. We have 13 dominoes in place. There are a lot of groups that must total various numbers: 11, 1, 4, 4, 12, 4, 0, 4 and 7. There are only two groups that must include all = numbers, one that has 3 and one that has 7 tiles. There are no <или> or = and there is only one tile that can be anything.
As I started that it identified the most difficult or specific state to fill the board. This time it is green = group. It must have 7 tiles of the same number of pips. I counted my dominoes and only two pipes have a total of 7. It meant that every domino with 2 pips with 2 pips on one side had to go to those green boxes on one side. It was only one 2/2 domino, so every other 2 had to be placed vertically, it was born or the vertically descends.
The top tiles on this board, above the Green Group, are located in five wide. This means that three cannot lie horizontally, so it must be some combination of horizontal and vertical fasting. I found 2/6 Domino and put it green in Orange 12 Group. Then I put 6/4 domino on the orange 12 group in the side in blue 4 tiles. 2/4 Domino I put in a green group vertically up inot dark blue 4 tiles. Then I put 1/5 domino in a pink 1 plate, horizontally in a group of purple 11. As well:
Today’s heavy pips
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This is not exactly the deterioration of the job, although I wasn’t 100% sure everything will work at this time. I have identified the state of the green group. I knew every 2 PIP is set to suit and correctly match each other plate or group that would separate.
From here you feel pretty confident, I was constantly working on the right side of the board. I had to figure out what the blue = group would be. Maybe they could be blanks or three, I concluded, but three looked more likely because there was a dark blue that should require, so three gaps. Working with that in mind, 2/0 I put the green group vertically down in a group of orange 4. Then I set 2/3 of green in blue =. I set 3/4 of blue = in orange 4 and 0/3 domino from dark blue 0 in blue =.
I should have wrapped a dark blue group so I put 0/4 domino in a lone pink 4 tiles and 0/6 domino from dark blue in purple 7. It was now a network:
PIPS difficult step 2
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At this point, I only had three Domans, and I was 100% sure I solved the puzzle. I put 2/1 domino from green in purple, 2/2 domino horizontally to finish the green group, and the final 6/3 domino vertically to end the upper purple 11 group. Voila!
Today’s heavy pips
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This was one of these pips riddles that initially seemed much worse with so many tiles and domains to cooperate. Scary at first, but then quite simply when you gained a small momentum. Lack of other conditions outside the total amounts and is as much less challenging. How did you do?
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