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How to play Pips
- You get a shaped board and a rack of dominoes. Place every domino; each half covers one cell.
- Cells are grouped into colored regions. Each region shows a rule:
- a number — the pips in that region add up to it
- = — all pips in the region are the same
- ≠ — all pips in the region are different
- <N / >N — the pips add up to less than / more than N
- no label — anything goes
- A domino may straddle two regions. The board is solved when it's full and every rule is green.
- Tap a domino to rotate it a quarter turn. Drag it onto the board — the highlighted cells show where it will land. Tap a placed domino to turn it in place; drag it off the board to send it back to the rack.