Welcome to your walkthrough for Pips, the latest game in the New York Times collection. Debuting in August 2025, Pips delivers a novel twist on dominoes, offering an engaging single-player experience that could turn into your new daily gaming ritual. Presently, if you hit a roadblock, the game divulges the complete puzzle, prompting you to advance to a higher difficulty level and restart. However, there’s no need to fret; we’re here to assist! Below are segmented hints that will guide you through each level of difficulty.
How to engage with Pips
If you are familiar with dominoes, you will grasp the fundamentals of how Pips operates. As noted in our earlier hints regarding Pips, the tiles, similar to dominoes, are positioned vertically or horizontally and link to one another. The primary distinction between a conventional domino game and Pips lies in the color-coded conditions that you must fulfill. The adjacent tiles are not required to match.
The criteria you need to satisfy are unique to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it presents a single numeral, all sides of a tile in that area must total the indicated number. It is commonplace – and entirely feasible – for just a portion of a tile to reside within a color-coded area.
Here are typical instances you’ll face across the various difficulty levels:
– Number: All pips in this area must equal the specified number.
– Equal: Each domino half in this space must have the identical number of pips.
– Not Equal: Each domino half in this area must possess a completely unique number of pips.
– Less than: Each domino half in this area must total to less than the mentioned number.
– Greater than: Each domino half in this area must total to more than the specified number.
If a section lacks any coloration, it implies there are no requirements for the parts of dominoes within those areas.
Easy difficulty hints, solutions for Nov. 17 Pips
– Equal (5): Everything in this area must equal 5. The answer is 6-5, positioned horizontally; 5-5, positioned vertically.
– Number (4): Everything in this orange area must total 4. The answer is 4-2, positioned horizontally.
– Number (4): Everything in this red area must total 4. The answer is 3-3, positioned vertically; 0-1, positioned horizontally.
– Less Than (4): Everything in this area must be below 4. The answer is 0-1, positioned horizontally.
Medium difficulty hints, solutions for Nov. 17 Pips
– Greater Than (2): Everything in the purple area must exceed 2. The answer is 2-6, positioned horizontally.
– Greater Than (2): Everything in the light blue area must exceed 2. The answer is 1-5, positioned horizontally.
– Equal (4): Everything in this orange area must equal 4. The answer is 4-4, positioned horizontally; 4-1, positioned horizontally.
– Equal (3): Everything in this dark blue area must equal 3. The answer is 3-3, positioned horizontally; 3-5, positioned horizontally.
– Greater Than (2): Everything in the green area must exceed 2. The answer is 3-5, positioned horizontally.
– Equal (1): Everything in this area must equal 1. The answer is 1-0, positioned vertically; 1-5, positioned horizontally; 1-1, positioned vertically.
Hard difficulty hints, solutions for Nov. 17 Pips
– Greater Than (2): Everything in the purple area must exceed 2. The answer is 3-6, positioned horizontally.
– Number (10): Everything in this red area must total 10. The answer is 5-5, positioned horizontally.
– Greater Than (3): Everything in this area must exceed 3. The answer is 4-6, positioned horizontally.
– Number (24): Everything in this area must total 12. The answer is 3-6, positioned horizontally; 4-6, positioned horizontally; 6-0, positioned vertically; 6-1, positioned vertically.
– Number (2): Everything in this area must total 2. The answer is 2-2, positioned horizontally.
– Number (0): Everything in this area must total 0. The answer is 0-1, positioned vertically.
– Number (3): Everything in this area must total 3. The answer is 3-5, positioned horizontally.
– Number (1): Everything in this area must total 1. The answer is 0-1, positioned vertically.
– Number (3): Everything in this area must total 3. The answer is …