How To Solve Today’s NYT Pips Puzzles, Wednesday August 19

Today's Pips

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Looking for thief pinch today’s NYT Pips puzzles? You’ve travel to the correct place. Not only will you find strategies below, but afloat answers for each regular trio of Pips puzzles and a afloat walkthrough for the Hard Pips.

Alright Wednesday puzzle-solvers. It’s the time of Odin, that trickster god, and possibly the champion time of the week for solving puzzles. Grab immoderate dominoes and bring your reasoning cap, because these are surely a challenge.

Looking for Tuesday’s Pips? Read our guideline correct here.

How To Play Pips

In Pips, you person a grid of multi=-colored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you person to achieve. You person a prime number of dominoes that you person to walk filling successful the grid. You must usage each domino and execute each information decently to win. There are Easy, Medium and Difficult tiers.

Here’s an illustration of a difficult tier Pips:

As you tin see, the grid has a bunch of symbols and numbers pinch each color. On the acold left, the 3 purple squares must not adjacent 1 different (hence the adjacent motion crossed out). The 2 pinkish squares adjacent to that must adjacent a full of 0. The zig-zagging bluish squares each must adjacent 1 another. You click connected dominoes to rotate them, and will request to since they person to beryllium rotated to fresh wherever they belong.

Not shown connected this grid are different conditions, specified arsenic “less than” aliases “greater than.” If location are aggregate tiles pinch > aliases < signs, the full of those tiles must beryllium greater aliases little than the listed number. It varies by grid. Blank spaces tin person anything. The various imaginable conditions are:

• = All pips must adjacent 1 different successful this group.
• ≠ All pips must not adjacent 1 different successful this group.
• > The pip successful this tile (or tiles) must beryllium greater than the listed number.
• < The pip successful this tile must beryllium little than the listed number.
• An nonstop number (like 6) The pip must adjacent this nonstop number.
• Tiles pinch nary conditions tin beryllium anything.

In bid to win, you person to usage up each your dominoes by filling successful each the squares, making judge to fresh each condition. Sometimes there’s only 1 measurement to lick the puzzle. Other times, location tin beryllium 2 aliases much 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 locomotion you done the Hard puzzle. Spoilers ahead.

Today’s Easy Pips

Today’s Medium Pips

Hard Pips Walkthrough And Solution

Here’s today’s Hard Pips:

Today’s Hard Pips is “L” arsenic successful “Logic” and small “l” arsenic successful “little.” The instrumentality present is the “l” which is simply a ≠ group wholly detached from immoderate different groups. Often I constituent retired that doubles are useful pinch ≠ groups because you tin almost ever spot them astir the perimeter of one, half successful the ≠ group and half outside. That isn’t an action today, and we person 2 doubles to contend pinch — don’t get each the measurement to the extremity pinch a 3/3 aliases a 6/6 that can’t fresh successful Dark Blue ≠.

It’s evident based connected numbers that:

• We will person 6’s successful the Purple = group.
• There are only 2 blanks and they will some request to spell into Dark Blue < 2.
• We should prevention the small “l” for last.

With each that successful mind, we person a clear spot to statesman . . . .

Step 1

Place the 5/3 domino from Orange > 3 down into Dark Blue < 2 and the 3/0 domino from Blue 7 into Dark Blue < 0. Since we cognize the 6’s are going successful Purple =, spot the 1/6 domino from Dark Blue < 2 into Purple = and the 4/6 domino from Blue 7 into Purple =.

Step 2

This adjacent conception I had to fiddle pinch extensively, but the reality is we request astatine slightest 2 5’s for the Purple 10 astatine the top. Yes, we could do it pinch a 4 and a 6 but that intends we person nary 6’s for Dark Blue ≠ and since we person nary blanks left, we need our past 6 for that (since we request 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6).

Place the 3/3 domino successful Pink = and the 6/6 domino correct adjacent to that successful Purple =. The 4/2 domino goes from Green > 3 up into Orange < 3 and the 6/3 domino goes from Purple = up into Blue =. We are now wrong striking distance, folks.

Solution

The 5/4 domino goes from Purple 10 into Pink > 3 and the 5/3 domino goes from Purple 10 into Blue =. We now person the 1/4, 2/3 and 5/6 domino and they tin spell into Dark Blue ≠ successful immoderate bid you please.

Have a wicked Wednesday, Pipsqueaks!

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