What is Custom Pips?
Custom Pips is a powerful puzzle creation tool that lets you design your own domino-based logic puzzles. Unlike playing pre-made puzzles, Custom Pips gives you complete control to craft unique challenges.
With Custom Pips on Pips Hint, you become the puzzle master. Set up grids, place dominoes, define rules, and create brain-teasing challenges that can be shared with friends or the global puzzle community.
Whether you're an educator creating learning materials, a puzzle enthusiast designing challenges, or someone who wants to test their creativity, Custom Pips provides all the tools you need.
Intuitive Design
Easy-to-use grid editor
Auto Generation
Smart domino pairing
Custom Rules
Multiple constraint types
Easy Sharing
One-click link generation
Powerful Custom Pips Features
Everything you need to create professional-quality domino puzzles
12×12 Grid Canvas
Work with a flexible 12×12 grid to design puzzles of any complexity. Place values from 0-6 or leave cells empty.
Auto Domino Generation
Our smart algorithm automatically pairs adjacent cells into valid dominoes, ensuring perfect puzzle structure every time.
Five Rule Types
Add constraints with equals, unequal, sum, greater than, and less than rules to create diverse puzzle challenges.
Real-time Validation
Instant feedback shows if your rules are satisfied, helping you create solvable and balanced Custom Pips puzzles.
Instant Sharing
Generate compressed URLs to share your Custom Pips creations. No account needed, just create and share!
Difficulty Levels
Set difficulty manually or let the system auto-detect based on domino count: easy, medium, or hard.
How to Create Custom Pips Puzzles
Follow these simple steps to design your first puzzle
Set Cell Values
Click cells on the 12×12 grid and select values from 0-6. These represent the solution to your puzzle.
Generate Dominoes
Click "Generate Dominoes" to automatically pair adjacent cells. The system ensures all cells are properly matched.
Add Rules
Select rule types and click cells to apply constraints. Choose from equals, sum, greater than, and more.
Share & Play
Copy the generated link or preview your Custom Pips puzzle. Share it with others to challenge them!
Who Uses Custom Pips?
Puzzle Enthusiasts
Design challenging Custom Pips puzzles to share with the community and test your creative puzzle-making skills.
Educators
Create educational Custom Pips exercises for students to develop logic, pattern recognition, and problem-solving abilities.
Game Designers
Prototype domino-based game mechanics and test different rule combinations using the Custom Pips editor.
Custom Pips FAQs
Custom Pips is a puzzle creation tool on Pips Hint that lets you design domino-based logic puzzles. You place values on a grid, generate dominoes automatically, add constraint rules, and share your creation via a unique link.
No account required! Custom Pips is completely free to use. Simply visit Pips Hint, create your puzzle, and share the generated link with anyone.
Custom Pips uses an intelligent backtracking algorithm to automatically pair adjacent cells into valid dominoes. You just set the cell values, and the system handles the pairing.
Custom Pips supports five rule types: equals (all values must match), unequal (all values must differ), sum (values must equal a target), greater than (values exceed a threshold), and less than (values below a threshold).
Custom Pips puzzles are encoded in the URL, so each link represents a specific puzzle state. To make changes, create a new puzzle in the editor and generate a new link.
Custom Pips offers auto-detection based on domino count (4-6 dominoes = easy, 7-9 = medium, 10+ = hard) or you can manually set the difficulty level.
Yes! Custom Pips is fully responsive and works on desktops, tablets, and smartphones. Create and share puzzles from any device.
Custom Pips puzzles you create are yours to use. However, please review Pips Hint terms of service for specific licensing details regarding commercial use.
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