Digits is a math-based game developed and published by New York Times. Each day, there are five puzzles released, and in each puzzle, players have six numbers that they can add, subtract, multiply, or divide by in order to reach the target number. Once you use a number, you cannot use it again in another operation. If you’ve having trouble solving the NYT Digits puzzles for June 3rd, 2023, we have the answers for you!
NYT Digits, Puzzle 1 Answer for June 3 2023
The target is 51. There are four operations to get to 3-stars for the one puzzle.
- 10 + 4 = 14
- 14 + 2 = 16
- 16 + 1 = 17
- 17 × 3 = 51
NYT Digits, Puzzle 2 Answer for June 3 2023
The target is 184. There are three operations to get to 3-stars for the two puzzle.
- 25 + 10 = 35
- 35 × 5 = 175
- 175 + 9 = 184
NYT Digits, Puzzle 3 Answer for June 3 2023
The target is 236. There are three operations to get to 3-stars for the three puzzle.
- 9 × 6 = 54
- 54 + 5 = 59
- 59 × 4 = 236
NYT Digits, Puzzle 4 Answer for June 3 2023
The target is 319. There are three operations to get to 3-stars for the four puzzle.
- 15 × 7 = 105
- 105 × 3 = 315
- 315 + 4 = 319
NYT Digits, Puzzle 5 Answer for June 3 2023
The target is 437. There are four operations to get to 3-stars for the five puzzle.
- 20 + 13 = 33
- 11 + 3 = 14
- 33 × 14 = 462
- 462 - 25 = 437
Digits rewards players with up to 3-stars; you’ll get 3-stars for getting to the target exactly, 2-stars if you are within 10 of the target, and 1-star if you are within 25 of the target. Players can start a new operation by selecting a different number, and fractions or negative numbers are not accepted. New puzzles are released daily at midnight.
When working on a target from Digits, one of the first things you can do is to look for factor pairs of the target number, which can sometimes clue you into the direction you need to go. This is often the last operation of the solution, and you’ll use other operations to get to the numbers you need for the final factor pair.
We hope our NYT Digits June 3, 2023 Answer Guide helped you out on today’s puzzles! Check out more of our NYT Digits coverage.
For those of us who do puzzles ( competitively ) with friends, how about a scoring system that rewards elegant solutions, i.e. 4 points for solving in 2 steps, 3 in 3, 2 in 4, and 1 in 5 ? Also, if you have access to NYT game developers, are all digit puzzles designed to be solved in 3 or less ?
Is there a benefit to reaching the answer in fewer steps? For example, puzzle 1 solution could have been reached in 2 steps, 25X2
50+1. Is the goal to solve the puzzle in the fewest steps possible?
Not really! Digits rewards with 1 star, 2 stars, or 3 stars based on how close you are to the target number, so the fewest steps doesn’t have any benefit for scoring. The answers we list here are the ones officially listed by NYT (if you were to click “Reveal” for the puzzle’s solution).