Board 8 > Pips Topic 1 - the most fun anyone's had with dominos since $5 pizzas

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9/29

e: 0:12
m: 0:34
h: 4:01

Felt like I was flying today and then ran into a roadblock at the very end of hard and it took ages to deconstruct where things got fouled up

9/30

e: 0:15
m: 0:54
h: 4:05

Zzz, I'm already washed

10/01

e: 0:14
m: 1:44
h: 1:54

I misread a > as a < on the medium and stared at it for over a minute before I found the mistake

10/02

e: 0:21
m: 1:05
h: 2:57

10/03

e-0:19
m-1:14
h-1:48

Oct 3
e: 0:14
m: 1:02
h: 2:02

Kinda weird that they replaced "12" with ">11" and "0" with "<1". Though aside from those, it's neat that they're starting to do some inequalities on more than one square.

10/03

e: 0:12
m: 0:58
h: 5:45

I cleared everything but the top segment and then didn't put it in because I thought I messed up and had the wrong final two pieces. I thought the >9 was =9 so I spent minutes turning the whole bottom section upside down looking for a way to fill it in that would give me different final tiles. Then I finally realized I had it right all along

10/4

e - 1:38
m - 1:06
h - 1:08

i lost the coin flip on the assumption for easy and then also dropped my phone oops

Oct 4
e: 0:14
m: 0:52
h: 0:49
Medium had more dominoes than hard that time.

10/04

e: 0:18
m: 0:59
h: 0:52

I really liked medium today with all the equals. It felt reasonably tricky without being unfair

10/5

e-0:18
m-1:48
h-1:10

medium did not feel like it had an easily noticeable starting point today

10/05

e: 0:17
m: 3:38
h: 1:22

Wtf medium

Oct 5
e: 0:17
m: 1:10
h: 1:28

yeah, agree that medium was tougher than usual.

10/6
e 0:30 (oops didnt see the second 7 tile)
m 2:54 (oops)
h 2:50

not a good day for me, lots of dumb mistakes, probably because its 1:30am

Oct 6
e: 0:43 (I didn't see the third 7 tile at first)
m: 1:12
h: 2:37

10/06

e: 0:20 i saw all three 7 tiles and made the lucky guess
m: 1:10
h: 2:15

Oct 7
e: 0:18
m: 1:04
h: 1:45

Im drunk and camping but medium fucked with me and I gave up so no scores today

10/07

e: 0:15
m: 2:51
h: 7:25

Jesus. Just gonna chalk tonight up to being exhausted.

Edit: I started on my attempt before seeing JC's post. I feel better now

E: 0:10
M: 1:17
H: 6:08

E was barely a puzzle but H was probably the best one Ive done. Admittedly, I took a three week break but still!

10/08

e: 0:07
m: 0:42
h: 4:27

Oct 8
e: 0:11
m: 0:54
h: 13:24
Yeah, I was being an idiot on hard

Oct 9
e: 0:19
m: 0:59
h: 2:35
Much better

10/09

e: 0:22
m: 1;42
h: 8:05

I was even worse today, but there were SO many almost answers on hard

Oct 10
e: 0:12
m: 1:00
h: 2:23

10/10

e: 0:12
m: 0:47
h: 5:38

Once again very few guaranteed places to start and then what feels like too many workable options in the mid game.

e-0:12
m-1:02
h-2:23

oct 10

disagree re your assessment of hard today FD. bottom right corner with the four 0s made it relatively straightforward to logic out. and it wasnt a trial and error starting point since the 5 had to go at the bottom and 4 at the top of the column were the only numbers that could work.

Yes I filled in the entire right section and half of the left section and wound up in a situation where the remaining pieces didn't work, I had to fix several pieces from the right section first but it wasn't obvious.

As you said I began with the 0s and correctly followed upwards with the 4, but for the final 4 you could do 4/1 or 4/3 and you could successfully finish that second regardless of which one you used. And then you only have one 0 remaining so you can start with the left half of the N and finish that and don't hit any issues until there are only a few pieces left. So I missed the coin flip by doing 4/3 but it took a few minutes to realize how far back in the progress I had to go to find the deviation.

Nothing about that decision had a logical clue except that you knew it couldn't be 4/5 because then you would have to use your 0 which couldn't be done because there was a 0 locked into the beginning of the N.

Ah interesting. I moved over and did the 6s after sorting out the 0s and it all kinda flowed from there. Cant go back and revisit now though, weird how they dont launch games with archives.

10/11

e-0:12
m-0:39
h-5:47

my brain just couldnt do todays hard oops lol

Oct 11
e: 0:13
m: 0:54
h: 9:07
Chaeix posted...

my brain just couldnt do todays hard oops lol

Same...I stared with the 0/4 in the right place, but didn't find the right combination of other tiles, and moved it over to a couple other places and tried everything, which didn't work. Eventually I moved it back to the right place and then solved it.

10/11

e: 0:13
m: 1:26
h: 2:36

10/12

e 0:10
m 1:45
h 3:21

Oct 12
e: 0:14
m: 1:21
h: 1:16

10/12

e: 0:11
m: 0:41
h: 8:09

I keep reaching hard with confidence only to get dumped on.

Tried this for the first time today.

3:34 for hard. Didn't keep track of my other times but I believe they were all less than that.

Oct 13
e: 0:37
m: 0:30
h: 1:01

10/13

e: 0:44
m: 0:37
h: 2:01

Better today but I'm still regularly doing worse than I was a week+ ago

Oct 14
e: 0:21
m: 0:27
h: 2:22

That hard puzzle looked intimidating, but you could work out the domino locations one by one.

10/14

e: 0:20
m: 0:43
h: 3:00

10/15

e: 0:10
m: 0:57
h: 5:05

Oct 15
e: 0:18
m: 0:49
h: 2:22
...exactly the same hard time as yesterday.

10/16

e: 0:34
m: 0:34
h: 0:52

Finally a proper solid day.

Oct 16
e: 1:31
m: 0:55
h: 3:45
Hard felt like one of those where I was going to spend a bunch of time on it and then sort of just got the answer.

10/17

e: 0:52
m: 2:44
h: 1:57

Easy and medium were legitimately tricky, and hard had a clear path that could be set in motion with the sixes.

10/18

e: 0:17
m: 1:24
h: 2:11

10/19

e: 0:15
m: 0:45
h: 0:54

Another good day

Oct 20
e: 0:41
m: 0:42
h: 2:11

E: 0:31
M: 0:48
H: 8:12

That hard puzzle was the longest any has taken me by a mile jfc

Pips #65 Hard 7:57

First day seeing this topic and hearing about this game. That was a doozy