Andrew Healey • 10/18/2025

Solving NYT's Pips Puzzle

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This technical article explains how the author created a solver for The New York Times' Pips domino puzzle. It covers encoding the game logic in TypeScript, implementing a Depth-First Search (DFS) algorithm with optimizations for efficiency, building a UI for debugging, and visualizing the search tree. The post includes code snippets for data structures and the adjacency list generation.

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