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, with a little something for every mood. Easy, medium, and hard boards are ready when you are.
Easy board
5 dominoes, 5 rule sections.
| <2 | |||
| 7 | |||
| <3 | = | ||
| = | |||
Easy hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell under 2
- 2 cells that add up to 7
- 1 cell under 3
- 2 cells that are all the same number
- 3 cells that are all the same number
Easy hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 3|4 domino so the 3 sits in row 3, column 3 and the 4 sits in row 2, column 3.
Show the solved easy board
| <20 | |||
| 74 | 3 | ||
| <31 | =3 | 3 | |
| =1 | 1 | ||
| 1 | 4 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Medium board
7 dominoes, 7 rule sections.
| 5 | 6 | 0 | |
| 7 | |||
| 3 | = | >4 | |
Medium hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 cells that add up to 5
- 1 cell showing 6
- 1 cell showing 0
- 3 cells that add up to 7
- 1 cell showing 3
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell over 4
Medium hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 2|6 domino so the 2 sits in row 1, column 1 and the 6 sits in row 1, column 2.
Show the solved medium board
| 52 | 66 | 00 | 2 |
| 3 | 71 | 3 | 4 |
| 33 | =0 | 3 | >45 |
| 0 | 0 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Hard board
15 dominoes, 18 rule sections.
| 3 | >8 | >4 | ||||||
| 5 | = | >2 | ||||||
| 8 | 0 | = | ||||||
| >1 | 10 | |||||||
| <2 | ||||||||
| 3 | ||||||||
| >2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Hard hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell showing 3
- 2 cells that add up to more than 8
- 1 cell over 4
- 1 cell showing 5
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell over 2
- 2 cells that add up to 8
- 1 cell showing 0
- 3 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell over 1
- 3 cells that add up to 10
- 1 cell under 2
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell over 2
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 0
- 2 cells that add up to 5
Hard hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 5|3 domino so the 5 sits in row 2, column 1 and the 3 sits in row 1, column 1.
Show the solved hard board
| 33 | >84 | 5 | >46 | 2 | ||||
| 55 | =5 | >26 | ||||||
| 84 | 00 | 5 | =1 | |||||
| 4 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | ||||||||
| >12 | 105 | |||||||
| <21 | 2 | |||||||
| 33 | 3 | |||||||
| >23 | 44 | 33 | 00 | 52 | 3 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
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