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Today's Pips Credit: NYT The last weekend of October is behind us and the final few days of the month stretch out ahead. The leaves are all brilliant yellows and oranges and reds and yards are decorated with ghouls and goblins and witches and skeletons. We have another NYT Pips puzzle to solve on this lovely, spooky autumn day. Below you’ll find solutions for the Easy and Medium Monday Pips. I’ll give you a hint for the Medium tier puzzle right now: Start with the 2/5 domino and begin in the Purple 2 tile. For the Hard tier walkthrough, read on, Pipsqueaks! Looking for Sunday’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. Here’s an example of a difficult tier Pips: Pips example Screenshot: Erik Kain MORE FOR YOU 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 “less than” or “greater than.” If there are multiple tiles with > or The pip in this tile (or tiles) must be greater than the listed number. 5 (in either spot). And that’s a wrap! Today's Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain I definitely struggled a bit at first trying to figure out which Purple = block needed 1’s and which needed 0’s but ultimately I realized I needed the second 4 to go into the Pink >5 group since I absolutely needed Blue = to be all 3’s. At that point it was pretty obvious what had to happen. How did you do? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook. Be sure to follow me for all your daily puzzle-solving guides, TV show and movie reviews and more here on this blog! Editorial StandardsReprints & Permissions
