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 challenge, with puzzles for every mood. Start easy, then see how far your domino skills can go.
Easy board
5 dominoes, 6 rule sections.
| 10 | 4 | |||
| 10 | ||||
| 10 | ||||
| 4 | ||||
| >4 |
Easy hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 cells that add up to 10
- 2 cells that add up to 10
- 3 cells that add up to 10
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell over 4
Easy hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 4|3 domino so the 4 sits in row 4, column 1 and the 3 sits in row 4, column 2.
Show the solved easy board
| 105 | 44 | |||
| 105 | 5 | |||
| 101 | 5 | |||
| 44 | 3 | |||
| 6 | >45 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Medium board
7 dominoes, 5 rule sections.
| <6 | |||||
| >2 | = | 0 | ≠ | ||
Medium hint 1: The rule sections
- 2 cells that add up to less than 6
- 1 cell over 2
- 4 cells that are all the same number
- 1 cell showing 0
- 3 cells that are all different
Medium hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 1|3 domino so the 1 sits in row 2, column 6 and the 3 sits in row 1, column 6.
Show the solved medium board
| 3 | <63 | ||||
| 3 | >24 | =6 | 00 | ≠3 | 1 |
| 2 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
Hard board
16 dominoes, 26 rule sections.
| 2 | 3 | 4 | |||
| 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | ||
| 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 0 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 5 | |
| 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Hard hint 1: The rule sections
- 1 cell showing 2
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell showing 0
- 2 cells that add up to 8
- 1 cell showing 2
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 0
- 1 cell showing 4
- 1 cell showing 0
- 1 cell showing 0
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell showing 0
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell showing 2
- 1 cell showing 5
- 1 cell showing 2
- 1 cell showing 2
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 3
- 1 cell showing 1
- 1 cell showing 5
Hard hint 2: Where one domino goes
Place the 0|1 domino so the 0 sits in row 2, column 1 and the 1 sits in row 1, column 1.
Show the solved hard board
| 1 | 1 | 22 | 33 | 44 | |
| 00 | 84 | 4 | 22 | 55 | |
| 44 | 33 | 33 | 00 | 44 | 00 |
| 00 | 55 | 6 | 00 | 33 | 55 |
| 22 | 55 | 1 | 22 | 22 | |
| 33 | 33 | 11 | 55 | 1 |
Each number is the pip count on that square. Blank squares are not part of the board.
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