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The dog days of April are upon us, and by the end of this week we\u2019ll be in May. School is wrapping up for students around the country. If you\u2019re about to head into finals week, may the study gods be with you. If you\u2019re about to be on summer break, hang in there. For now, grab your dominos and let\u2019s solve today\u2019s Pips!<\/p>\n
Looking for Sunday<\/em>\u2019s Pips? <\/em>Read our guide right here<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n In Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different \u201ccondition\u201d 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.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s an example of a difficult tier Pips:<\/p>\n Pips example<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n 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. <\/p>\n Not shown on this grid are other conditions, such as \u201cless than\u201d or \u201cgreater than.\u201d 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:<\/p>\n 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\u2019s only one way to solve the puzzle. Other times, there can be two or more different solutions. Play today\u2019s Pips puzzle here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Below are the solutions for the Easy and Medium tier Pips. After that, I\u2019ll walk you through the Hard puzzle. Spoilers ahead.<\/p>\n Easy Pips<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Medium Pips<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Here\u2019s today\u2019s Hard Pips:<\/em><\/p>\n Hard Pips<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Today\u2019s Hard Pips is brought to you by the word \u201cPIP\u201d which is about as appropriate as you can get. If they\u2019d used the word WORDLE we\u2019d need a lot more dominoes! In any case, I just started with the first \u201cP\u201d and determined where the 3\/4 domino could go. As you can see, there are several instances of 3 and 4 next to one another, but we only have one 3\/4 domino. Looking at the rest of the tiles, it seemed clear that 3\/4 would need to go from Purple 3 down to Green 4 (based on the Pink 10 we really didn\u2019t have any options to go from Pink 10 down into a three-tile Purple =). So we\u2019ll start there.<\/p>\n Place the 3\/4 domino from Purple 3 down into Green 4 and the 3\/0 domino from Blue 3 into Purple =. The 0\/0 domino fits into the remaining Purple = tiles and the 5\/5 goes in Pink 10.<\/p>\n Hard Pips<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Next, place the 6\/6 domino in Pink > 10 (the 6\/5 won\u2019t work because we\u2019ll need that 5 in a minute) and the 4\/5 domino from Orange > 3 into Pink > 4. The 6\/5 domino goes from Blue > 4 into Dark Blue 10 and the 5\/1 domino goes from Dark Blue 10 into Green 3. <\/p>\n Hard Pips<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n The 2\/3 domino goes from Green 3 into Dark Blue 4 and the 1\/3 domino goes from Dark Blue 4 into Orange 3. The 4\/0 domino goes from Blue 4 into the one and only free tile and the 2\/2 domino rounds things out back at the first \u201cP\u201d in the Purple = tiles.<\/p>\n Hard Pips<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Once again, I struggled more with the Medium Pips than the Hard Pips today, though the Hard Pips was a decent enough challenge. That\u2019s fine. I love it when the Medium Pips is more challenging than usual, and I suppose it was fun that today\u2019s Pips was the word PIP (or the word \u201cdid\u201d upside down). How\u2019d you do on today\u2019s Pips?<\/p>\n Follow me on Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, or Facebook<\/a>. Be sure to follow me for all your daily puzzle-solving guides, TV show and movie reviews and more here on this blog!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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