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 a little something for every solver. Easy, medium, and hard are all waiting for you, so enjoy the domino fun!
Easy board
5 dominoes, 6 rule sections.
| <2 | ||||
| = | = | |||
| 2 | >2 | 2 |
Easy hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell under 2
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell showing 2
- 1 cell over 2
- 1 cell showing 2
Easy hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 1|0 domino so the 1 sits in row 2, column 2 and the 0 sits in row 1, column 2.
Show the solved easy board
| <20 | 4 | |||
| 6 | =1 | 1 | =3 | 3 |
| 22 | >25 | 22 |
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 | <1 | ||
| <3 | |||
| 4 | 7 | ||
| >2 |
Medium hint 1: The rule sections
- 3 cells that add up to less than 4
- 2 cells that add up to more than 7
- 1 cell under 1
- 1 cell under 3
- 1 cell showing 4
- 2 cells that add up to 7
- 1 cell over 2
Medium hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 2|0 domino so the 2 sits in row 3, column 4 and the 0 sits in row 2, column 4.
Show the solved medium board
| <40 | |||
| >72 | 3 | 0 | <10 |
| 6 | 4 | 6 | <32 |
| 44 | 2 | 71 | |
| >23 | 6 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Hard board
13 dominoes, 12 rule sections.
| 6 | |||||||
| = | |||||||
| >3 | |||||||
| 15 | |||||||
| = | 7 | ≠ | |||||
| 4 | |||||||
| >4 | |||||||
| <4 | <2 | ||||||
| 5 |
Hard hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell showing 6
- 4 cells that add up to 15
- 1 cell over 3
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 2 cells that add up to 7
- 3 cells that are all different
- 3 cells that add up to 4
- 1 cell over 4
- 1 cell under 4
- 2 cells that add up to less than 2
- 1 cell showing 5
- 4 cells that are all the same number
Hard hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 5|3 domino so the 5 sits in row 10, column 3 and the 3 sits in row 9, column 3.
Show the solved hard board
| 66 | |||||||
| =1 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 1 | >34 | ||||||
| 152 | |||||||
| 6 | |||||||
| 2 | =4 | 4 | 74 | 3 | ≠0 | ||
| 5 | 4 | 40 | 1 | 1 | |||
| >45 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| <43 | <20 | ||||||
| 55 | 1 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
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