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 puzzle lineup, with easy, medium, and hard boards to tackle. Take your time, trust the domino logic, and enjoy the solve.
Easy board
5 dominoes, 4 rule sections.
| 5 | >3 | ||
| 5 | |||
| 9 | |||
Easy hint 1: The rule sections
- 5 cells that add up to 5
- 1 cell over 3
- 1 cell showing 5
- 2 cells that add up to 9
Easy hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 6|1 domino so the 6 sits in row 3, column 3 and the 1 sits in row 2, column 3.
Show the solved easy board
| 51 | >34 | ||
| 55 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1 | 1 | 96 | |
| 3 | 4 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Medium board
7 dominoes, 7 rule sections.
| >7 | 4 | ||||
| ≠ | = | <2 | 10 | ||
| <5 | |||||
Medium hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 cells that add up to more than 7
- 1 cell showing 4
- 4 cells that are all different
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell under 2
- 2 cells that add up to 10
- 1 cell under 5
Medium hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 6|3 domino so the 6 sits in row 4, column 2 and the 3 sits in row 3, column 2.
Show the solved medium board
| >75 | 44 | ||||
| 3 | ≠4 | 5 | =2 | <21 | 106 |
| 3 | 2 | 2 | <54 | 4 | |
| 6 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Hard board
15 dominoes, 13 rule sections.
| 2 | = | 12 | |||||
| <2 | |||||||
| = | |||||||
| <9 | |||||||
| <5 | <2 | >4 | |||||
| 5 | <7 | 3 | |||||
| 9 |
Hard hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 cells that add up to 2
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 3 cells that add up to 12
- 1 cell under 2
- 4 cells that are all the same number
- 3 cells that add up to less than 9
- 2 cells that add up to less than 5
- 1 cell under 2
- 1 cell over 4
- 1 cell showing 5
- 2 cells that add up to less than 7
- 2 cells that add up to 3
- 2 cells that add up to 9
Hard hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 6|3 domino so the 6 sits in row 7, column 1 and the 3 sits in row 7, column 2.
Show the solved hard board
| 22 | 0 | =6 | 124 | ||||
| <21 | 4 | 6 | 6 | ||||
| 4 | 3 | 6 | =2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| <92 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| 3 | <51 | <21 | >45 | ||||
| 55 | 3 | <72 | 33 | ||||
| 96 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
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