Pips has three boards a day. Each section below starts with a nudge and ends with the full solved board.
Welcome to today’s Pips domino puzzles, where each board has its own little logic twist. Start with the easy one, then work your way up to the trickier sets.
Easy board
5 dominoes, 4 rule sections.
| 5 | |||
| = | |||
| = | |||
| >1 |
Easy hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 cells that add up to 5
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 4 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell over 1
Easy hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 3|5 domino so the 3 sits in row 2, column 3 and the 5 sits in row 3, column 3.
Show the solved easy board
| 1 | |||
| 53 | 2 | ||
| =5 | 5 | ||
| =4 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 4 | >16 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Medium board
7 dominoes, 8 rule sections.
| <1 | ||||
| 3 | >2 | |||
| 1 | >9 | >9 | ||
| >3 | <1 |
Medium hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell under 1
- 2 cells that add up to 3
- 1 cell over 2
- 2 cells that add up to 1
- 2 cells that add up to more than 9
- 2 cells that add up to more than 9
- 1 cell over 3
- 1 cell under 1
Medium hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 1|5 domino so the 1 sits in row 3, column 1 and the 5 sits in row 3, column 2.
Show the solved medium board
| <10 | ||||
| 4 | 32 | 1 | >24 | |
| 11 | >95 | 5 | >95 | 5 |
| 0 | >34 | 3 | <10 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Hard board
14 dominoes, 13 rule sections.
| 4 | = | >8 | ||||
| 1 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| 5 | ≠ | |||||
| 1 | >9 | = | ||||
| 0 | 2 |
Hard hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell showing 4
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 3 cells that add up to more than 8
- 1 cell showing 1
- 1 cell showing 6
- 2 cells that add up to 2
- 1 cell showing 5
- 2 cells that are all different
- 1 cell showing 1
- 3 cells that add up to more than 9
- 4 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell showing 0
- 1 cell showing 2
Hard hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 5|5 domino so the 5 sits in row 5, column 7 and the 5 sits in row 6, column 7.
Show the solved hard board
| 2 | 44 | =0 | >83 | |||
| 11 | 66 | 0 | 21 | 2 | ||
| 55 | ≠2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | |
| 11 | 4 | >93 | =5 | 5 | ||
| 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 00 | 22 | 3 | 5 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
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