Pips has three boards a day. Each section below starts with a nudge and ends with the full solved board.
Easy board
5 dominoes, 4 rule sections.
| = | |||
| = | |||
| <1 | |||
| <1 |
Easy hint 1: The rule sections
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 3 cells that add up to less than 1
- 1 cell under 1
Easy hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 0|0 domino so the 0 sits in row 3, column 1 and the 0 sits in row 4, column 1.
Show the solved easy board
| =5 | |||
| 3 | =1 | 5 | |
| <10 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 0 | <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.
| 1 | >2 | ||||
| <3 | = | 7 | 4 | ||
| >3 |
Medium hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell showing 1
- 1 cell over 2
- 2 cells that add up to less than 3
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 2 cells that add up to 7
- 2 cells that add up to 4
- 1 cell over 3
Medium hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 2|3 domino so the 2 sits in row 2, column 2 and the 3 sits in row 1, column 2.
Show the solved medium board
| 11 | >23 | ||||
| 2 | <32 | =3 | 3 | 75 | 42 |
| >34 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Hard board
13 dominoes, 18 rule sections.
| 6 | ||||||||
| <2 | 0 | |||||||
| 5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 4 | ||
| = | 6 | 3 | 9 | 2 | ||||
| 6 | ||||||||
| <7 | 5 |
Hard hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell showing 6
- 1 cell under 2
- 1 cell showing 0
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 0
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell showing 6
- 1 cell showing 4
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 2 cells that add up to 6
- 1 cell showing 3
- 2 cells that add up to 9
- 1 cell showing 2
- 2 cells that add up to 6
- 2 cells that add up to less than 7
- 2 cells that add up to 5
Hard hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 4|5 domino so the 4 sits in row 4, column 6 and the 5 sits in row 5, column 6.
Show the solved hard board
| 66 | ||||||||
| <21 | 3 | 00 | ||||||
| 55 | 33 | 00 | 44 | 44 | 66 | 44 | ||
| =6 | 6 | 64 | 33 | 95 | 4 | 22 | ||
| 6 | 2 | 65 | 1 | |||||
| <73 | 3 | 51 | 4 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
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