Sunday, July 19 NYT Pips solutions: Easy, Medium, and Hard puzzles solved with full walkthrough. Domino-by-domino guide for today's Hard tier tree puzzle.
Looking for help with today's Easy, Medium and Hard NYT Pips puzzles? Whether you're after a nudge in the right direction or just want to compare notes, below you'll find everything you need to solve each of today's Pips plus a full walkthrough for today's.
Lazy Sunday is here and I'm feeling lazy. Let's just get right to solving today's Pips.
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In Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different "condition" you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you must spend filling in the grid. Use every domino and achieve every condition properly to win. There are Easy, Medium and Difficult tiers.
Here's an example of a difficult tier Pips:
As you can see, the grid has a bunch of symbols and numbers with each color. On the far left, the three purple squares must not equal one another (the equal sign is crossed out). The two pink squares next to that must equal a total of 0. The zig-zagging blue squares all must equal one another. You click on dominoes to rotate them, and that's necessary since they have to be rotated to fit where they belong.
Not shown on this grid are other conditions, such as "less than" or "greater than." If there are multiple tiles with > or < signs, the total of those tiles must be greater or less than the listed number. It varies by grid. Blank spaces can have anything. The various possible conditions are: =, ≠, >, <, 0.
In order to win, you have to use up all your dominoes by filling in all the squares, making sure to fit each condition. Sometimes there's only one way to solve the puzzle. Other times, there can be two or more different solutions. Play today's Pips puzzle here.
Below are the solutions for the Easy and Medium tier Pips. After that, I'll walk you through the Hard puzzle. Spoilers ahead.
Today's Hard Pips is a tree, I think. We'll call it a tree. This one requires some trial and error, or at least it did for me. We'll start where all trees start: Down at the roots.
Place the 5/4 domino from Dark Blue > 4 into Orange 4 and the 2/4 domino from Pink < 4 into Blue 4 (there are many 4 tiles in today's Pips!) The 3/3 domino goes above that in the bottom two Purple = tiles and the 3/0 domino goes from Purple = into Orange 0.
Place the 1/1 domino next to that in Green = and the 0/1 domino from Blue < 4 into Green =. The 0/4 domino goes from Orange 0 into Dark Blue 4 and the 4/6 domino goes from Pink 4 up into Blue 6.
Next, place the 4/1 domino from Purple 4 into Green = and the 2/1 domino above that, from Pink 2 into Orange 7. The 5/1 domino goes from Dark Blue 5 into Green = and the 4/4 domino goes from Orange 4 up into Green 4.
Place the 1/6 domino from Purple 1 into Blue 9 and the 4/3 domino from Pink 4 into Blue 9. The 6/6 domino goes from Orange 7 into Dark Blue > 4 and the 2/2 domino goes at the tippy-top of the tree, in Purple 4. We planted a tree, folks. A domino tree!
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