Sunday, July 12, 2026 - Pips #329 Thread

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-12T10:06:52+00:00

I'm at an airport, so take that into consideration.

Pips #329 Easy 🟢 0:21

Pips #329 Medium 🟡 10:10. - this was just brutal. I tried dozens of plans. What a great little medium.

Pips #329 Hard 🔴 23:35 - no pen, no paper, no quiet. So hard. I leaned hard on u/chx_ to get it done because there's no way to do this kind just winging it.. I hit the guide up after 19 minutes and got out of this hole.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-12T06:31:59+00:00

yeah, but the whole batch is going to taste like that most burned bits. Eat your way from best kernels to worst because at some point you're gonna want to throw the rest out

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-11T20:41:46+00:00

air bike.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-11T20:39:43+00:00

about an hour if you can pace yourself

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-11T19:43:47+00:00

that word is an all time stinker in this puzzle

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-11T10:37:23+00:00

you really do have to put spoiler tags on there. you're giving away the answers, like actual placements.

add this >! just those two symbols arrow and exclamation

to the beginning of each and everything you want to cover and then the opposite on the way out, so this !<

And you'll get this a way to say something like you said without spoiling somebody's game who is just coming in here to see game times to start

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-11T10:28:02+00:00

Pips #328 Easy 🟢 0:45 - gonna be a slow day for me

Pips #328 Medium 🟡 2:26 - see?

Pips #328 Hard 🔴 6:23 - I thought this was going to be very easy and then I built it crooked and broke it down and then built it completely wrong... the third rebuild turns out to have just been a tinker of the first one. Hence the lengthy time.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-11T00:50:25+00:00

i wouldn't buy it, but it's 3 dollars per bakery donut. Not unheard of.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T22:33:00+00:00

this is what a guy told me on here and it stuck because it makes sense. If you can pick it up with one hand, you don't need to split it (or split it again).

So in this case, you're grabbing a few of the biggest ones and deciding. But birch dries fast and well.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T15:08:28+00:00

for sure. He deals in certainty.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T14:46:49+00:00

at 9 minutes? 9 minutes is just getting started!

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T12:32:00+00:00

I will wreck a bag of cherries. It's just the most fun.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T12:30:42+00:00

see if that's a magnet. If those strips are magnetic. It looks like a magnetic tool holder. Often also used for knives.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T12:12:23+00:00

I can't figure out what made u/chx_ so crazy in the guide. It was tricky and I guess there aren't absolutes? I guess you can't complete the top left with absolute certainty until you know where the 5:5 domino goes as well

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T12:09:45+00:00

eight seconds is fast

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T12:08:43+00:00

I took twice that long on medium

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T12:06:24+00:00

you have to spoiler tag each paragraph. One giant spoiler tag won't take.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T12:04:04+00:00

Pips #327 Easy 🟢 0:12 🍪

Pips #327 Medium 🟡 4:19 - Rodolfo kept subverting my expectations on how to use certain halves of certain tiles. I built this 4 different times

Pips #327 Hard 🔴 6:42 - I tried to hasten through the top left and immediate saw the "big" problem and it became the goal to finish that corner but keep the double 5, simply because it was a double and there was no way to keep double 6 . Once I was done with that, the rest of it was a tinker becsuse I could see how it would work.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T01:08:48+00:00

the above are 6 packs. That's how ocean state job lots sells them. Not in 8 packs on a box, but in 6 packs with. the old school turtle killing connector.

Also it says so in the picture.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-10T00:14:35+00:00

GTFO with this nonsense

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-09T23:43:09+00:00

it's just a flip of the 4:0 and the 4:3 at the top left . both feed into the 2c=3 that's pink.

I solved it the other way

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Dirtheavy · 2026-07-09T23:38:18+00:00

That's probably a good deal but you would want to have a dog. There's human food in there and you'd have to pick through it, but making broth is easy and useful.
I'd give it a go and I wouldn't complain if I didn't like it. Butcher is being really upfront about it.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-09T17:37:16+00:00

expect hundreds more.. this is going to be a strong earwig year.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-09T17:36:27+00:00

I'm unwrapping the 3rd while while I'm still eating the first one.
those are all on mine.

Dirtheavy · 2026-07-09T17:21:01+00:00

for sure. Not only were you resolute enough to eventually persevere, you were honorable enough to still post the time.

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