Pips July 19, 2026
Puzzle #336 · Sunday
This is the pips puzzle for July 19, 2026 — all three boards, free to play, with no subscription and no account. The hard board has 20 squares, 10 dominoes and 7 regions — 3 exact-sum, 1 less-than, 1 greater-than and 2 unconstrained regions.
By Sukie · Puzzle editor
20 squares · 10 dominoes · regions overlap heavily
Your dominoes
Tap a domino, then tap a square to place it. Press R to rotate, U to undo. Tap a placed domino to lift it again.
What's on the July 19, 2026 boards
easy
The easy board has 8 squares, 4 dominoes and 4 regions — 3 exact-sum and 1 unconstrained regions.
Start with the "= 4" region. It spreads 4 pips across 1 square, averaging 4.0 per square, so the halves that can legally sit there are limited before you have placed anything at all.
medium
The medium board has 14 squares, 7 dominoes and 6 regions — 3 exact-sum, 1 greater-than and 2 unconstrained regions.
Start with the "= 4" region. It spreads 4 pips across 3 squares, averaging 1.3 per square, so the halves that can legally sit there are limited before you have placed anything at all.
hard
The hard board has 20 squares, 10 dominoes and 7 regions — 3 exact-sum, 1 less-than, 1 greater-than and 2 unconstrained regions.
Start with the "= 12" region. It spreads 12 pips across 3 squares, averaging 4.0 per square, so the halves that can legally sit there are limited before you have placed anything at all.
Where people get stuck
Two or more regions here carry no constraint at all. Those are not free wins — they are the squares you should fill last, because they will absorb whatever tiles the constrained regions reject.
A note that applies to every board in the archive: a domino can straddle two regions, and each half only has to satisfy the region it lands in. That is the single most common misreading of the format — people assume a tile must sit inside one region, which makes perfectly solvable boards look impossible. The rules page works through it with examples.
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