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 domino puzzles! Easy, medium, and hard are ready when you are.
Easy board
5 dominoes, 4 rule sections.
| = | ||||
| = | <1 | |||
| >5 |
Easy hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 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 over 5
Easy hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 0|0 domino so the 0 sits in row 2, column 4 and the 0 sits in row 2, column 5.
Show the solved easy board
| 1 | =2 | 2 | ||
| =0 | <10 | 0 | ||
| >56 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Medium board
7 dominoes, 8 rule sections.
| <5 | >8 | ||
| 2 | |||
| = | 8 | ||
| <4 | = | 2 |
Medium hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 cells that add up to less than 5
- 2 cells that add up to more than 8
- 1 cell showing 2
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 2 cells that add up to 8
- 1 cell under 4
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell showing 2
Medium hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 2|0 domino so the 2 sits in row 2, column 2 and the 0 sits in row 2, column 3.
Show the solved medium board
| <54 | >86 | ||
| 0 | 22 | 0 | 3 |
| =5 | 5 | 85 | 3 |
| <43 | =6 | 6 | 22 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Hard board
14 dominoes, 15 rule sections.
| 8 | 4 | ≠ | 2 | |||||
| 5 | ||||||||
| 3 | 0 | |||||||
| 5 | >1 | 5 | ||||||
| 0 | 5 | = | ||||||
| 10 | ||||||||
| = | ||||||||
Hard hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 cells that add up to 8
- 2 cells that add up to 4
- 3 cells that are all different
- 2 cells that add up to 2
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 0
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell over 1
- 2 cells that add up to 5
- 1 cell showing 0
- 1 cell showing 5
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 3 cells that add up to 10
- 2 cells that are all the same number
Hard hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 6|6 domino so the 6 sits in row 5, column 8 and the 6 sits in row 5, column 9.
Show the solved hard board
| 86 | 41 | 3 | ≠6 | 22 | 0 | |||
| 2 | 55 | 2 | ||||||
| 2 | 33 | 3 | 00 | |||||
| 55 | >12 | 51 | ||||||
| 00 | 6 | 55 | 4 | =6 | 6 | 6 | ||
| 103 | ||||||||
| 4 | 3 | |||||||
| =0 | ||||||||
| 0 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
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