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Education NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Sunday, August 9 By Erik Kain ,
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Looking for help with today’s NYT Pips puzzles? You’ve come to the right place. Not only will you find strategies below, but full answers for each daily trio of Pips puzzles and a full walkthrough for the Hard Pips.
Alright, Pipsqueaks, it’s lazy Sunday time so let’s bust out our thinking caps, solve these Pips puzzles, and then do a whole lot of nothing. Onward!
Looking for Saturday ’ s Pips? Read our guide right here .
In Pips, you have a grid of multi=-colored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend filling in the grid. You must 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:
Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase
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 (hence the equal sign 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 will need to 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:
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 the word “NEW” though I almost thought it was “HEW” at first. It’s a tricky one, and I admit to making many alterations before finally getting to the finish line. We have three doubles but only one group that obviously requires a double, and no clue about what that might be. That’s in the “N” which also has a free tile. Forget the “N” for now. We’ll start at the “W” and work our way backwards.
Place the 3/1 domino from Purple < 4 down into Orange 7 and the 2/2 domino from Orange 7 down into Dark Blue < 3. The 5/1 domino goes from Pink > 4 down into Orange 7 and the 2/1 domino goes from Orange 7 down into Green < 2. Finish the “W” off with the 6/1 domino from Blue> 5 down into Orange 7. “W” done. Onto “E”.
Place the 6/2 domino from Pink > 5 into Purple 8 and the 6/4 domino from Purple 8 down into Orange =. The 4/2 domino goes from Orange = into Green 2 and the 4/5 domino goes from Orange = down into Dark Blue =. Wrap up the “E” with the 5/6 domino from Dark Blue = into Green > 5.
At last, the “N”. Place the 1/1 domino in the two Pink 2 tiles and the 4/4 above that in Blue =. The 3/6 domino goes from Orange < 4 up into Purple 15 and the 6/0 domino goes from Purple 15 into Dark Blue 0. The 4/3 domino goes from Blue 4 into the final Purple 15 tile and the 0/1 domino goes from Dark Blue 0 up into the one and only free tile. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is that!
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