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NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Solution And Walkthrough For Tuesday, November 18

The post NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Solution And Walkthrough For Tuesday, November 18 appeared com. Another day, another Pips puzzle to solve. Well, I suppose we actually have three to solve: Easy, Medium and Hard. I’m still waiting for the New York Times Games department to add a Mega Super-Duper-Extra Challenging tier. A boy can dream. In any case, the numbers just keep coming, with no discernible order, in nearly every Hard Pips we’ve had over the past week-and-a-half. Today’s Hard Pips is the number 9. If I hadn’t already lost track of these by now, I might have the full string of numbers since two Saturdays ago. Oh well! I was hoping it would be the numbers from Lost but that does not seem to be the case. Right then, let’s solve these Pips puzzles, my Pipsqueaks! Looking for Monday’s Pips? Read our guide right here. How To Play Pips In Pips, you have a grid of multicolored 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. Play Puzzles & Games on Forbes Here’s an example of a difficult tier Pips: Pips example Screenshot: Erik Kain 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. 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.