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 trio, from easy to hard. Take a breath, trust the dots, and enjoy the domino fun.
Easy board
5 dominoes, 5 rule sections.
| 10 | 10 | >4 | |||
| 5 | |||||
| <1 |
Easy hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 cells that add up to 10
- 2 cells that add up to 10
- 1 cell over 4
- 2 cells that add up to 5
- 1 cell under 1
Easy hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 3|6 domino so the 3 sits in row 2, column 3 and the 6 sits in row 2, column 2.
Show the solved easy board
| 0 | 104 | 106 | >46 | ||
| 6 | 53 | 2 | 4 | ||
| 1 | <10 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Medium board
7 dominoes, 7 rule sections.
| >4 | ≠ | = | ||
| >7 | ||||
| >5 | 6 | |||
| 8 |
Medium hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell over 4
- 3 cells that are all different
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 2 cells that add up to more than 7
- 2 cells that add up to more than 5
- 1 cell showing 6
- 2 cells that add up to 8
Medium hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 2|6 domino so the 2 sits in row 3, column 3 and the 6 sits in row 3, column 4.
Show the solved medium board
| >45 | ≠2 | =1 | 1 | |
| >75 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 3 | >54 | 2 | 66 | |
| 84 | 4 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Hard board
16 dominoes, 21 rule sections.
| <3 | >3 | = | 5 | >1 | ||||
| 2 | <3 | 1 | 5 | |||||
| = | >0 | 5 | 3 | |||||
| 9 | 7 | 3 | ≠ | |||||
| 3 | 0 | |||||||
| 3 | 5 |
Hard hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell under 3
- 1 cell over 3
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell over 1
- 1 cell showing 2
- 2 cells that add up to less than 3
- 1 cell showing 1
- 1 cell showing 5
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell over 0
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell showing 3
- 2 cells that add up to 9
- 3 cells that add up to 7
- 1 cell showing 3
- 2 cells that are all different
- 2 cells that add up to 3
- 2 cells that add up to 0
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 5
Hard hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 4|3 domino so the 4 sits in row 4, column 9 and the 3 sits in row 4, column 8.
Show the solved hard board
| <32 | >34 | =4 | 4 | 55 | >12 | |||
| 22 | <32 | 11 | 4 | 55 | ||||
| =5 | 0 | 0 | >04 | 55 | 33 | |||
| 5 | 93 | 6 | 74 | 2 | 33 | ≠4 | ||
| 31 | 00 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | 0 | 33 | 55 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
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