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 puzzles, where the domino fun starts easy and then sneaks up on you. Enjoy the smooth first board, then see how the medium and hard sets keep things lively.
Easy board
5 dominoes, 6 rule sections.
| 5 | = | ||
| 9 | |||
| 5 | 3 | ||
| <3 |
Easy hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell showing 5
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 2 cells that add up to less than 3
- 2 cells that add up to 9
- 2 cells that add up to 3
Easy hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 0|3 domino so the 0 sits in row 4, column 2 and the 3 sits in row 4, column 3.
Show the solved easy board
| 55 | =4 | 4 | |
| 93 | |||
| 55 | 30 | 6 | |
| <30 | 0 | 3 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Medium board
7 dominoes, 7 rule sections.
| 10 | >1 | 8 | |||
| >2 | = | 0 | |||
| 5 |
Medium hint 1: The rule sections
- 3 cells that add up to 10
- 1 cell over 2
- 1 cell over 1
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell showing 0
- 2 cells that add up to 5
- 2 cells that add up to 8
Medium hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 3|6 domino so the 3 sits in row 2, column 1 and the 6 sits in row 3, column 1.
Show the solved medium board
| 101 | >12 | 2 | 83 | ||
| 3 | >25 | =2 | 2 | 00 | 5 |
| 6 | 1 | 54 | 1 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Hard board
15 dominoes, 18 rule sections.
| 1 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 13 | |
| 5 | 2 | ||||
| 4 | >4 | ||||
| 4 | 2 | <4 | |||
| = | 2 | 4 | = | ||
| >2 | >4 |
Hard hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell showing 1
- 3 cells that add up to 13
- 2 cells that add up to 4
- 1 cell showing 0
- 3 cells that add up to 13
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell showing 2
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell over 4
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell showing 2
- 2 cells that add up to less than 4
- 4 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell showing 2
- 1 cell showing 4
- 4 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell over 2
- 1 cell over 4
Hard hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 2|0 domino so the 2 sits in row 5, column 3 and the 0 sits in row 5, column 2.
Show the solved hard board
| 11 | 134 | 41 | 3 | 00 | 136 |
| 55 | 6 | 22 | 6 | 1 | |
| 44 | 3 | >45 | |||
| 44 | 22 | <42 | 1 | ||
| =0 | 0 | 22 | 44 | =6 | 6 |
| 0 | 0 | >23 | >45 | 6 | 6 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
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