Looking for help with today’s Easy, Medium, and Hard NYT Pips puzzles? Whether you need guidance or want to compare approaches, here’s everything required to solve each tier, including a step-by-step walkthrough for the Hard puzzle.
How to Play Pips
In Pips, you fill a grid of multicolored tiles using dominoes under specific conditions. Each color group has rules: equality, inequality, or numerical constraints. All dominoes must be placed to satisfy every condition, with Easy, Medium, and Hard tiers offering escalating complexity.
For example, a grid might require:
- = All tiles in a group must share the same value.
- ≠ No two tiles in a group can have identical values.
- > Tiles must exceed a listed number.
- < Tiles must remain below a specified value.
- Exact numbers (e.g., 6) enforce precise placement.
- Unmarked tiles accept any value.
Today’s Pips Solutions
Easy Pips Solution
Easy Pips
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Medium Pips Solution
Medium Pips
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Hard Pips Walkthrough
Begin with the Dark Blue = tiles. Place the 2/2 domino to satisfy the equality condition. Move the 2/0 domino to connect Dark Blue to Purple 3. Use the 3/5 domino to link to Blue 11. Continue placing dominoes strategically:
– 0/0 in Orange 0, 0/5 in Green 9
– 1/4 in Pink 7, 3/3 in Dark Blue 9
– 0/6 in Blue > 0 (only valid option remaining).
Subsequent steps involve pairing 6/5 and 4/4 in Purple 13, then arranging 4/6, 5/5, and 6/6 dominoes to finalize the grid. Complete the puzzle by ensuring all conditions are met across every color group.
Hard Pips
Screenshot: Erik Kain
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