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It’s Thor’s day. The first week of September is flying. The latest NIT puzzles took many American occupied, because we understand how to match Domains on the grid of colorful tiles. It’s a fun little challenge made for a nice change of tempo from my usual words puzzles. Let’s solve today, right?
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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
Screenshot: Erik Cain
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 To win, you must use all your domins by filling out all squares, be sure to fit each state. Play today’s puzzles here. Below are solutions for simple and medium plates. After that, I’ll walk you through a difficult puzzle. Spoiler forward. Today’s Pips Screenshot: Erik Cain Today’s Pips Screenshot: Erik Cain Let’s make complete hallways of today’s heavy pips. It starts like this: Today’s Pips Screenshot: Erik Cain A little scarcy pipes today, because it is not quite clear how to start. We have several total groups, parse = group and only one> tile, it could really be a few different things. I decided to use the purple group as my anchor point. Without 6 Pips Domines, my best assumption would require four tiles of 5 pipes and one 4 tiles. I decided to set up 2/5 domino into a pink> tile, to the purple group. Based on the number 3 and 4 pipes of dominoes, I realized that dark blue = group will be 3, and the green = group would be 4. There were accessories each, but more 4 is from the 3’s. I used an additional 4 in 0/4 Domino to put in blue 0 tiles down in a purple 4 group. Then I put 1/5 domino in orange 4 / purple 24 and 3/5 domino into dark blue = / purple 24, as so: Today’s Pips Screenshot: Erik Cain It felt like a fairly solid foundation. One full angle is filled and I had a good feeling where I wanted to get out of here. I stuck 2/4 domino on orange 4 / green = and then 3/4 domino into dark blue = / green = and finally, rounded orange 4 with 1/0 domino in purple 0, as well as stomach 0 Today’s Pips Screenshot: Erik Cain I only had three domins, so if I didn’t fuck badly, I knew I would finish it. I put Domino on the open tile in Purple 24, ending that group. 1/4 Domino entered the open plate / green = and wrapped that group. Finally, 0/3 Domino went to the purple 0 and the last open plate and that, ladies and gentlemen, was that. Today’s Pips Screenshot: Erik Cain This one was a little supposed to start because there were great obvious ways to start, but with little deduction and counting Domino, I went to the good start and I managed to throw it out quickly. How did you do? Be sure to follow me for all my daily guides for puzzle rooms, TV show and movie review and more here on this blogRecording!
Today’s Solution for Pips
Light
Middle
Tough
