Today’s Nit Pips hints and solutions for Wednesday, 3. September

The rain came to the mountain. Thunder and lightning, very frightening. But good for these dry forests and good for the soul. You know what else is good for the soul? Solving today’s puzzle, the latest game in the New York Times Games app. Let’s solve that, don’t we?

Looking for tuesday‘With pips? Read our guide here.

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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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As always, the trick here is the identification that the tiles can only be used in one way. This is hard because the only terms of the total group are. There is no = or less than or more than anything else. I started asking for a total value that matched only once domino. It was blue 4, which I set the empty half in the purple 9 group, so I put Domino 5/5 there in purple 9. To complete the purple group, I slot 2/2 domino into the upper left. As well:

Today’s Pips

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From here I put 2/1 domino in a pink 2 plate, down in a group of oranges 7. I then put 6/1 domino in purple 6 tiles and pink 1 plate. At this point I just used my best guesses. It was possible that I would still have to come back, but so far, so good:

Today’s Pips

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With only three domins left, I finished the orange group with 3/3 domino and put 3/6 domino into the green 3 plate, down in the Blue 8 Group. Now I knew I was on the right track and I put 1/1 Domino in the final 2 blue 8 tiles as so:

Today’s Pips

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Lately we had a lot of heavy pits for pips that have mostly total groups, sometimes with an = group thrown, but very fewer or bigger that to deal with, and Nari does not exist. This creates its challenge, but also retains things. . . Well. . . Simple. I hope to get more challenging entry soon!

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