How To Solve Today’s NYT Pips Puzzles, Sunday August 23

Looking for help with today’s NYT Pips puzzles? You’ve come to the right place. Not only will you find strategies below, but full answers for each daily trio of Pips puzzles and a full walkthrough for the Hard Pips.

My dearest of Pipsqueaks, ladies and gentlesqueaks, solver of domino puzzles, we have three Pips puzzles to solve this fine Sunday and I say we get right down to it! Looking for Saturday’s Pips? Read our guide right here.

Key Analysis and Detailed Timeline

In Pips, you have a grid of multi=-colored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend filling in the grid.

You must use every domino and achieve every condition properly to win. There are Easy, Medium and Difficult tiers. Here’s an example of a difficult tier Pips: Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase As you can see, the grid has a bunch of symbols and numbers with each color.

On the far left, the three purple squares must not equal one another (hence the equal sign crossed out). The two pink squares next to that must equal a total of 0. The zig-zagging blue squares all must equal one another.

Broader Impact and Sector Outlook

You click on dominoes to rotate them, and will need to since they have to be rotated to fit where they belong. Not shown on this grid are other conditions, such as “less than” or “greater than.” If there are multiple tiles with > or < signs, the total of those tiles must be greater or less than the listed number.

It varies Blank spaces can have anything. The various possible conditions are: In order to win, you have to use up all your dominoes Sometimes there’s only one way to solve the puzzle. Other times, there can be two or more different solutions.

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Play today’s Pips puzzle here. Below are the solutions for the Easy and Medium tier Pips. After that, I’ll walk you through the Hard puzzle.

Spoilers ahead. Today’s Hard Pips is “R” and “r” as in Rock and roll. Which is what we’re going to do solving this thing.

The first obvious clue is the Dark Blue 5 tile, since we have only two 5’s and one of them is 5/0 which can’t possibly work with a two-tile Blue 7. Everything sort of flows from this revelation. Place the 5/1 from Dark Blue 5 into Blue 7 and the 6/4 domino from Blue 7 into Pink 4.

The 0/5 domino goes from Pink 4 into Purple 8 (and now we’re out of 5’s) and the 3/1 goes below that from Purple 8 into Orange 3. Now we know that we have to go down from Orange 3 because there are only three tiles beneath it, so place the 2/0 domino from here to Purple 12 and the 6/6 domino in the next two Purple 12 tiles.

Next, place the 0/6 domino in the top two Green 12 tiles and the 6/1 domino (our last 6) from Green 12 into Pink 9. The 4/4 domino finishes up both Pink 9 and the “R” and we hop over to the little “r” and toss the 2/4 domino from Dark Blue 2 into Blue = and the 4/3 domino from Blue = into Orange > 2.

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