GAME đź§© Pips

If you meet or beat the goal time for each difficulty, you receive an emoji reward.

Difficulty Time Reward
Easy :green_circle: 0:20 :cookie:
Medium :yellow_circle: 0:40 :cookie:
Hard :red_circle: 1:00 :cookie:

There are three difficulty levels per puzzle. Please combine all results into one post

  • Here’s a place to post your wins, losses, frustration, and despair.
  • As this puzzle has multiple difficulties, please post all results in a single response. Feel free to come back and edit your post as you complete the other levels.
  • If you post clues or answers, please blur them with the [ spoiler] [/spoiler] tag.
  • Brag if you must. Just don’t be a spoilsport.

Tutorials for the Woot Forums
Click the â–ş icons below to expand the related tutorial

How to Ignore or Mute a User in the Forum

Ignore = Suppress all posts, messages, notifications, personal messages, and chat direct messages from these users.

Mute = Suppress all notifications, personal messages, and chat direct messages from these users.

Please note, Ignoring a user has the greatest restrictions which includes muting the user

  1. Click on your avatar at the top right of the screen
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  1. Click the person silhouette
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  1. Click on Preferences from the dropdown
  1. Click Users from the left panel
  1. Decide if you want to ignore or mute a user. If you only want to mute a user, skip to step 11.
  1. To IGNORE a user, press the +Add button under the Ignored section
  1. Click in the box under Username and enter the name of the user you want to ignore
  1. Click in the box under Duration and select the timeframe you’d like to ignore the user for
  1. Click the Ignore button to confirm
  1. Repeat the above steps for any additional users you want to ignore
  1. To MUTE a user, click in the field below Muted
  1. Enter the username of the user you want to mute
  1. Select the username from the dropdown
  1. Repeat the above steps for any additional users you want to mute
  1. "Click the Save Changes button
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How to make a poll
  1. In a text field, click on the cog wheel
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  1. Click Build Poll
  1. Click the cog wheel at the bottom right to view poll setup options
  1. Decide whether you want to create a single choice, multiple choice, or number rating poll
  1. Enter the parameters for your poll. Please note, each poll has different parameters
    Single Choice


    Mulitple Choice


    Number Rating
  1. Click the Insert Poll button
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  1. The poll will now be set up in the text field.
  1. Click Message to post the poll
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Once you post a poll, you can only edit it for 5 minutes. Any votes cast during those 5 minutes will be erased.

How to blur text or items in your post
  1. Enter your text or item in the comment box
  1. Highlight what text or item you want to blur
  1. Click on the cogwheel above where you enter your text or item
  1. A list of options will appear under the cogwheel. Click on Blur Spoiler
  1. The spoiler tag will be added and the highlighted text or item will now be blurred
  1. Repeat these steps to blur any additional text or items as needed.

After you post your comment, anyone can then click on the blurred text or item to reveal it.

How to Set a Custom Status
  1. Click on your avatar at the top right
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  1. Click on Preferences (the person silhouette)
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  1. Click + Set Custom Status
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  1. Click the emoji icon and select the emoji you want to display
  1. Enter the text you want to display with your status
  1. Press Save to set your status (If you want it to be temporary, you can select options on this screen accordingly).
How to Search the Forums for Items

When I’m looking for specific things or want to find something I saw before but don’t remember what category it was in, I come to the forums and do the following:

  1. Click the magnifying glass at the top right
    If you don’t know what a magnifying glass is, it’s this thing:
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  1. In the search bar, enter Deal Chatter and then your search terms with a + before each term ensuring to put a space before the + (e.g. Deal Chatter +dewalt +drill)
  1. Press Enter (or the equivalent on your device)
  1. Press More at the bottom of the list
  1. Change Sort By to Latest Post
  1. Click on the links to whatever you’re interested in and buy it if you want it/if still available

:w_devil: If you ever feel like being particularly disappointed by woot, just enter www.woot.com/random as a url in your internet browser and it’ll bring you to a random item you probably never wanted. Want extra disappointment? Enter that url again and it might show you another random item that you also probably don’t want. :exploding_head:

How to Change Default Notification Settings for Forum Threads
  1. Click your avatar at the top right of your screen
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  2. Click the Profile icon
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  3. Click Preferences
  4. Click Tracking
  5. Under Topics change Automatically track topics I enter to never

In addition to the above default setting, near the bottom of every thread, you can manually set that topic accordingly.

(Thanks to mareli83 for the text above)

This is another of the free NYTimes daily games along with
GAME :jigsaw: Wordle,
GAME :jigsaw: Connections,
GAME :jigsaw: The Mini Crossword
GAME :jigsaw: Strands

Pips #1 Easy :green_circle:
0:24

Pips #1 Medium :yellow_circle:
0:58

Pips #1 Hard :red_circle:
1:46

1 Like

Pips #1 Easy :green_circle:
0:29

Pips #1 Medium :yellow_circle:
1:33

Pips #1 Hard :red_circle:
1:06

:woman_shrugging: Not sure I like this.

2 Likes

Pips #1 Easy :green_circle:
3:53 :exploding_head:
I’m scared to try medium & hard!
Pips #1 Medium :yellow_circle:
5:48
I’m super scared to try hard!
Yeah, I gave up on Hard. I might need 42 more tutorials on how to play this one. :roll_eyes:

3 Likes

Pips #2 Easy :green_circle:
0:16 :cookie:

Pips #2 Medium :yellow_circle:
0:42

Pips #2 Hard :red_circle:
1:24

3 Likes

Pips #2 Easy :green_circle:
3:46
Pips #2 Medium :yellow_circle:
3:43
#3 revealed
Lesigh

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Pips #2 Easy :green_circle:
0:53
Pips #2 Medium :yellow_circle:
1:58
Pips #3 Hard :red_circle:
Revealed :roll_eyes:

Should we quote posts or is it too much?

1 Like

I think simple replies are okay, but all in one message per person. I’ll update the top section.

2 Likes

Pips #3 Easy :green_circle:
0:12 :cookie:

Pips #3 Medium :yellow_circle:
0:19 :cookie:

Pips #3 Hard :red_circle:
1:13

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I don’t know about this game…it’s a challenge!

Pips #3 Easy :green_circle:
1:56
Pips #3 Medium :yellow_circle:
4:56
Pips #3 Hard :red_circle:
4:09

3 Likes

Pips #3 Easy :green_circle:
0:47
Pips #3 Medium :yellow_circle:
3:33
Pips #3 Hard :red_circle:
Revealed :roll_eyes:

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Yeah, but at least you solved the Hard one. :tada: I have not yet. :roll_eyes:

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It reminds me a BIT of sudoku, but with less options. It might be obvious, but I start by trying to find the ONLY answer that can go somewhere and build out from there.

My only real complaints are that you cannot re-arrange the tiles that you’re working on, and, at least on mobile, when you move a tile off of the playing field because you think it was wrong, you have to be precise where you put it instead of just flinging it off to a side.

2 Likes

Pips #4 Easy :green_circle:
0:18 :cookie:

Pips #4 Medium :yellow_circle:
0:55

Pips #4 Hard :red_circle:
2:40

2 Likes

Pips #4 Easy :green_circle:
0:27

Pips #4 Medium :yellow_circle:
4:51

Pips #4 Hard :red_circle:
13:27

1 Like

Yep, that’s what I’ve been doing with the ONLY answer. And I’m great at sudoku, but my brain is just struggling with this, especially the placement of the =. I have a hard time telling which “area” is supposed to = which other “area” on the bigger puzzles. :woman_shrugging:

For example - what = what in this puzzle & how is my answer not right?

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Pips #4 Easy :green_circle:
3:37
Pips #4 Medium :yellow_circle:
1:42
Pips #4 Hard :red_circle:
5:55

I am not a fan. This game makes me feel dumb. I am fantastic at Sodoku. IDK.
Still on the fence, I suppose.

2 Likes

Pips #4 Easy :green_circle:
2:21
Pips #4 Medium :yellow_circle:
1:42
Pips #3 Hard :red_circle:
Revealed :roll_eyes:

2 Likes

Pips #5 Easy :green_circle:
0:25

Pips #5 Medium :yellow_circle:
0:30 :cookie:

Pips #5 Hard :red_circle:
1:01

3 Likes

The color of the condition matches the color of the squares.

So, your purple equal sign shows all the purple squares should be the same. You have 2 x 1, 2, 4, and 6 in there. Similarly, the orange/yellow equal sign indicates those 5 squares in a cross pattern should be equal, and you have 3 x 1, 5, and 6.

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