NYT's Sunday Pips puzzle pairs dominoes with colored grids. The stock has Alpha Score 39/100, Mixed. Pips is one of NYT's daily puzzle products.
New York Times Co. publishes a daily domino puzzle called Pips. Sunday's Aug. 16 edition got a full walkthrough. The hard tier used upper and lower-case K shapes.
The game works like this. A grid holds colored zones, and each zone carries a condition. A crossed-out equal sign means the tiles in that zone cannot match. A plain equal sign means they must. Less-than and greater-than signs set the zone's total against a listed number. Blank spaces carry no restriction. Players rotate and place dominoes until every square is filled and all conditions are met. The walkthrough notes some puzzles have one solution while others have two or more.
Pips is one of NYT's daily puzzle products, and the stock trades in the communication services sector. AlphaScala's Alpha Score for NYT is 39/100, labeled Mixed. More detail is on the NYT stock page.
The hard walkthrough starts with a 5/1 domino from a purple 9 zone into dark blue 2, then places the 4/4 domino from purple 9 into a green zone marked less than 5. The remaining moves shuffle pieces across the blue and orange zones before the final double, a 5/5, lands in the pink equals zone.
The Alpha Score of 39/100 is AlphaScala's current read on the stock.
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