NYT โคPips puzzle Solved: Tuesday, September 9th Hints โคadn Solution
Domino enthusiasts facedโข aโ moderately challenging “Pips” โคpuzzle from The New โYork Times today, requiring strategic placement to complete the car-shaped grid. The puzzle, released Tuesday, September 9th, tested โฃplayers’ spatial reasoning and numerical deduction skills.
The solution, detailed by puzzle solver Erik Kain on Forbes, began with strategically placing the 6/2 domino into the Purple 2 tile and โthe 6/5 domino โฃinto the Pink 20 group, followed by the 5/5 dominoโ at the baseโค of Pink โ20. โขProgressing to the car’s trunk (Green 6 โฃgroup), the solver utilized 3-pip and 1-pip dominoes โto fill the pink 3 and purple = groups respectively. Key moves โฃincluded placing the 3/1 domino into Dark Blue โ1 and the 3/6 domino into Blue 24,โข alongside โthe 6/6 domino at the base of Blue โค24 and the 6/1 domino into โคa free tile – a placement initiallyโ attempted in the Orange โ group.
The finalโ stages โinvolved โขcompleting theโ front of the car with dominoes like the 5/4, 3/4, 4/4, โฃand 1/1, โคbefore finishing with the 1/2 and 3/2 dominoes in the Pink 3 โฃand final free โคtile, respectively. Kain noted the Orange โ group presented a slight challenge,โข but ultimately found the puzzle simpler thanโ the previous day’s iteration.