NYT Pips Answers And Walkthrough For Wednesday, October 7

How To Play Pips

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:

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

• = All pips must equal one another in this group.
• ≠ All pips must not equal one another in this group.
• > The pip in this tile (or tiles) must be greater than the listed number.
• An exact number (like 6) The pip must equal this exact number.
• Tiles with no conditions can be anything.

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.

Today’s Pips Solutions And Walkthrough

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 Easy Pips

Today’s Medium Pips

Hard Pips Walkthrough And Solution

Here’s today’s Hard Pips:

I believe CU is the periodic element abbreviation for COPPER. As in the metal, not a policeman in the UK. It’s a pretty straightforward Hard Pips. We only have two doubles and we can get them out of the way right away, since we can safely assume that the 6’s go in Blue since we need a big enough number to pair with for Pink 11 and we’ll need our 0/5 domino for the Green 0 / Orange 6 pairing.

Step 1

Start with the 0/0 domino in the bottom tiles of Dark Blue = and the 6/6 directly below that in Blue =. The 6/4 goes from Blue = into Pink 11 and the 4/3 finishes up that group.

Step 2

Place the 0/5 domino from Green 0 into Orange 6 and the 1/5 from Orange 6 into Pink 5. The 0/2 goes from Dark Blue = into the only free tile (since it’s the only blank we have left) and the 6/2 goes in the Purple >10 group in the “C”.

The Solution

Place the 3/1 domino from Purple > 10 into Blue > 6 and the 4/2 in the remaining Blue > 6 tiles. The 4/1 goes in the left tiles of Purple ≠ and the 3/5 goes from there into Orange 5 and you’re done!

Have a wonderful Wednesday, Pipsqueaks!

How’d you do on today’s Pips?

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