A guide published April 22 walked readers through the Hard Pips puzzle for game, laying out the solution piece by piece after explaining how the logic game works. The puzzle was smaller than average, but it still required every domino to be used and every condition on the grid to be satisfied.
Pips is built around Easy, Medium and Difficult tiers, and the April 22 walkthrough focused on the hardest version of the day’s three puzzles. The guide said players had to place the 2/2 domino in the bottom two tiles of Purple =, then put the 2/3 domino above it, crossing into Green > 2.
From there, the solution moved across the board in a fixed chain. The 5/3 domino ran from Orange > 2 into Blue =, the 3/0 domino went from Blue = up into Orange < 2, and the 0/6 domino stretched from Orange < 2 over into Pink 6. The 6/4 domino then dropped from Pink 6 down into Dark Blue =, followed by the 4/3 domino, which went from Dark Blue = over into Pink > 2.
The last stretch finished the grid with the 6/1 domino going from Pink = into Purple =, the 1/0 domino moving from Purple = down into Blue =, and the 0/2 domino landing from Blue = into the one and only free tile. That final placement closed the board and completed the puzzle under the game’s rules.
That matters because Pips is not solved by filling space; it is solved by matching each domino to the color and number conditions on the board. The April 22 guide also underscored that there are three new puzzles every day — Easy, Medium and Hard — and that the hard one can still turn on a single free tile when the rest of the grid has already been locked into place.
The friction in the walkthrough is the same one that defines the game itself: a player can have the right set of dominoes and still lose if even one condition is off. On April 22, the published solution showed that the smaller board did not make the hard puzzle simple. It just made precision matter more.
For readers chasing the day’s answer, the conclusion was plain: the April 22 Hard Pips puzzle had a complete, exact solution, and every domino had to be placed in order for it to work. That is the whole game in miniature, and the walkthrough showed it without leaving room for guesswork.
