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Looking for help with today\u2019s Easy, Medium and Hard NYT Pips puzzles? Whether you\u2019re after a nudge in the right direction or just want to compare notes, below you\u2019ll find everything you need to solve each of today\u2019s Pips plus a full walkthrough for today\u2019s Hard Pips. <\/p>\n
Another Sunday, another Pips puzzle to solve. Well, three Pips puzzles to solve, as it so happens. Today\u2019s Hard Pips continues the World Cup theme we\u2019ve seen lately as soccer fever takes over the nation (and the world). If you\u2019re not a big fan of soccer, however, there are plenty of other great things to watch this weekend.<\/p>\n
Forbes<\/span>What To Watch This Weekend: New Shows And Movies To Stream On Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Apple TV And More<\/span>By Erik Kain<\/span><\/small><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n But first, grab some dominoes and let\u2019s to solving!<\/p>\n Looking for Saturday<\/em>\u2019s Pips? <\/em>Read our guide right here<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n Play Puzzles & Games on Forbes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\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<\/section>\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 the first half of the word \u201cSOCCER\u201d and there are a couple of important observations. First, we only have two blanks in our domino stash today, and both will be needed in Dark Blue 0. Second, in the \u201cC\u201d we need two 4\u2019s and then pips to fulfill Blue = and Purple = which means that we\u2019ll need pips that have one domino with both. I checked through our 4\u2019s and found that a 4\/6 and 4\/1 combination would work here, so that\u2019s where I began.<\/p>\n Place the 4\/6 domino from Pink 4 into Purple = and the 6\/6 domino in the next two Purple = tiles. The 6\/1 domino goes from Purple = into Blue = and the 1\/4 domino goes from Blue = into Orange 4. Hop up to the \u201cS\u201d and place the 4\/0 domino from Blue > 1 into Dark Blue 0 and the 0\/1 domino from Dark Blue 0 into Orange 10 (they can\u2019t go the other way, after all).<\/p>\n Hard Pips<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Move to the \u201cO\u201d and place the 5\/3 domino from Green > 4 into Purple = and the 3\/3 domino below that. The 3\/2 domino goes from Purple = into Green < 3 and the 4\/3 domino goes from PInk > 3 into Dark Blue < 4.<\/p>\n Hard Pips<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Place the 1\/3 domino in the next two tiles of Orange 10 and the 5\/5 domino from Orange 10 into Blue 10. The 5\/4 domino goes above that and the 6\/2 domino goes from Purple 10 into Pink 10. Wrap up this Hard Pips with the 4\/4 domino in the last two Pink 10 slots. T<\/p>\n Hard Pips<\/span><\/p>\n Screenshot: Erik Kain<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n This was another Pips that I thought would be harder than it ended up being, but luckily for all of us, it wasn\u2019t so bad.<\/p>\n 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<\/section>\n<\/div>\n
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