Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles (Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles (Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles (Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles (Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles (Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles (Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles (Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles (Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles
(Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
I'm back on EST TIME tomorrow!
Post your results and commentary for today's puzzles
(Depending on where you are in the world, the game number might be off, so match your puzzle to the images and post accordingly)
[THIS IS A NEW THREAD]
I became a little obsessed with Pips and wanted a way to keep playing more than the daily puzzles, so I decided to build my own domino puzzle app.
It generates unlimited puzzles and gets more difficult the faster you solve levels.
I’d love feedback from fellow Pips fans if anyone wants to try it.
IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/piply/id6759636847
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.snapshotzdev.piply
IT HAPPENED. I’ve been playing religiously since it was launched and many times have bemoaned what felt like an impossible hard time limit.
BUT I DID IT.
Best day of my life!!!
Pips #269 Easy 🟢
0:13 🍪
Pips #269 Medium 🟡
0:28 🍪
Pips #269 Hard 🔴
0:50 🍪
I posted the strategies and notation helper here.
Usual chessboard notation: A1 is lower left corner, a 1, F1 is lower right corner, a 5, A5 is upper left corner, a 2, F5 is upper right corner, a 3.
I am unhappy with the guide today. These puzzles can be solved two ways: either arena driven where you look at a tile and its neighbours determine only one domino can fit there or domino driven where a domino has only one space.
I have two solutions, one is arena driven but it jumps all over the place, the other starts with placing a domino and then it's nice and tight arena driven where every placed domino touches the previous one. Both have its "deus ex machine" style moments, alas when I don't really have a good explanation why that's the next step for the first solution and the first step in the second.
Or
You could also start with trial-and-error: >!The 4-4 near the A5 corner is promising so if A5 goes down then B5 does too and so does C5 and then A3 can't be made so A5 goes right and then E2 goes down and you have arrived to F1-F2.!<
Or: >!The same 4-4 but look at C5. It can't go left, if it's right then B5 is left (down would be 4-0 again). If it's down (4-1) then A3 must go up which forces A5 to go right. So no matter which way C5 goes, A5-B5 is 2-4. And then the same E2 goes down and we are good.!<
When I see a ton of these cages on Hard I know I'm in for a ride (<- said affectionately, it Is my fave NYT Game after all)
Hey everyone,
Its been a busy stretch on dotio so I just wanted to pop back in with an update. Basically all of this comes from comments in this sub, and private messages / emails, so just wanted to report back!
Recent stuff:
Also finally fixed a few long-standing bugs and glitches that were really hard to track down, so thank you to everyone who kept reporting them!
Looking ahead to 1.5:
Drop whatever comes to mind. I'd rather build what people actually want than guess!
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/dotio-domino-logic-puzzles/id6757383411
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leoncross.dotio
Thanks!
I posted the strategies and notation helper here.
There's a lot of solutions but that doesn't bother us. The only challenge here is you need to count a little in the middle but I kept it to the minimal possible.
I posted the strategies and notation helper here.
This one is really challenging. I will mark the key points with a (*) so you can enjoy the solving yourself stopping after each. After the second you shouldn't need the guide, really.
I posted the strategies and notation helper here.
The guide is not the simplest today. Actually, it might be the longest guide I've ever posted. Owie.
Before placement.
Placement.
I posted the strategies and notation helper here.
This is another puzzle which looks real hard when randomly trying but careful application of logic solves this real quick. It's not easy but it's quick.
Before placement.
Placement.