Today’s NYT -PIPS NYT -HINTS and SOLUTIONS FOR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 15

Monday is back. The weekend passed quickly! I suppose it is all these puzzles that we have to solve every day. Between Pips and Wordle, connections and strands, spelling bee and what else you play, it is a good piece of time. Nice distractions from the state of the world, I think. Okay, let’s arrange some dominoes!

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How to play pips

In Pips you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you must reach. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend on filling in the grid. You must use any domino and reach any condition correctly to win. There are easy, medium and difficult levels.

Here is an example of difficult tier -pips:

As you can see, the schedule has a number of symbols and numbers with every color. On the far left, the three purple squares are not allowed to be equal to each other (hence the equal sign crossed). The two pink squares next to it must be the same as a total of 0. The zigzagging blue squares must all be the same. You click on Domino’s to rotate them, and that must be necessary because they have to be turned to fit where they belong.

Not shown on this grid are other conditions, such as “less than” or “bigger than”. If there are several tiles with> or

• = All PIPs must be equal in this group.
• ≠ All pips may not be equal in this group.
• > The pip in this tile (or tiles) must be larger than the stated number.
• An exact number (such as 6) The PIP must be equal to this exact number.
• Tiles without disorders can be something.

To win, you have to use all your Domino’s by filling in all the squares and ensuring that you match each condition. Play the Pips -Puzzle of today here.

Today’s Pips solution

Below are the solutions for the easy and medium -sized tier pips. Then I will lead you through the difficult puzzle. Spoilers forward.

Simple

Medium

Difficult

Let’s do a complete Walkthrough of the difficult pips of today. It starts as follows:

This is clearly a bungalow. It has a door and such. Some planters at the front. A cozy house or house. It is also a very unique pips. I have never seen a total group so large. 63! You could spend a long time tormenting of how you can add the right dominoes, but I don’t recommend it.

This is what I did.

Step 1

I placed these dominoes a little differently the first time. I put the 1/2 domino of pink 1 down in purple 63 and the 1/5 Domino in blue 1 in the free tile. I finally had to exchange it, but I thought I could. My strategy was to prevent counting, and only the dominoes I knew could * work in all the tiles that were not the huge Purple 63 group.

I knew that the 6/5 Domino in Orange 6 had to go to Purple 63. This was the only 6 on the board and so it had to go there. I then placed the 4/4 in the green 4 / pink 4 tiles and the 0/0 domino in the dark blue 0 / blue 0 tiles. I didn’t know this would be correct, but I thought I would put them all down and see what happened.

As I noticed above, I had to exchange the 1/5 and 1/2 dominoes, but otherwise my placement was perfect. The rest of the Domino’s I just placed randomly over the Purple 63 group and that eventually did the trick. HUZZAH!

These were probably the easiest pips I have played so far, but it was quite daunting in the beginning. We have never had such a large group and I was afraid it would be difficult to get the right number. Fortunately that was not the case!

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