Welcome to your resource for Pips, the newest game featured in the New York Times collection. Launched in August 2025, Pips brings a distinctive twist to dominoes, introducing an enjoyable single-player adventure that might turn into your next daily gaming ritual. Right now, if you find yourself at an impasse, the game only provides the option to unveil the entire puzzle, compelling you to advance to the next difficulty tier and restart. Nevertheless, we’ve got you sorted! Below are segmented answers that will act as clues, helping you navigate through every difficulty level.

How to engage with Pips

If you’ve previously played dominoes, you’ll be somewhat acquainted with how Pips operates. As noted in our earlier hint features for Pips, the tiles, similar to dominoes, are arranged either vertically or horizontally and connect with one another. The primary distinction between a standard game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded requirements you need to fulfill. The adjacent tiles do not necessarily need to correspond.

The requirements to satisfy are unique to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it indicates a single number, every side of a tile in that location must sum up to the specified number. It’s entirely possible — and frequent — for only a portion of a tile to be situated within a color-coded area.

Here are typical instances you’ll encounter throughout the difficulty levels:

– Number: All the pips in this area must tally to the indicated number.
– Equal: Each domino half in this section must possess the same number of pips.
– Not Equal: Each domino half in this area must have entirely different numbers of pips.
– Less than: Each domino half in this space must total less than the indicated number.
– Greater than: Each domino half in this area must total more than the indicated number.

If an area lacks any color coding, it signifies there are no conditions on the segments of dominoes within those sections.

Easy difficulty hints, responses for April 30 Pips

Number (4): All components in this purple section must sum to 4. The answer is 4-2, positioned horizontally.

Number (4): All components in this red section must sum to 4. The answer is 4-2, positioned horizontally; 1-1, positioned vertically.

Number (4): All components in this light blue section must sum to 4. The answer is 0-4, positioned horizontally.

Number (4): All components in this orange section must sum to 4. The answer is 4-5, positioned horizontally.

Greater Than (4): All elements in this section must exceed 4. The answer is 4-5, positioned vertically.

Number (4): All components in this green section must sum to 4. The answer is 2-2, positioned horizontally.

Medium difficulty hints, responses for April 30 Pips

Number (3): All components in this area must total 3. The answer is 3-5, placed horizontally.

Equal (6): All components in this area must equal 6. The answer is 1-6, placed horizontally; 6-2, placed vertically.

Greater Than (8): All components in this region must exceed 8. The answer is 3-5, placed horizontally; 5-2, placed horizontally.

Equal (2): All components in this section must equal 2. The answer is 5-2, placed horizontally; 2-1, placed vertically; 6-2, placed vertically.

Number (3): All components in this section must sum to 3. The answer is 3-1, placed horizontally.

Equal (1): All components in this section must equal 1. The answer is 3-1, placed horizontally; 2-1, placed vertically.

Number (3): All components in this section must total 3. The answer is 0-3, placed horizontally.

Hard difficulty hints, responses for April 30 Pips

Number (2): All elements in this section must total 2. The answer is 2-5, placed vertically.

Number (4): All elements in this area must sum to 4. The answer is 4-5, placed vertically.

Number (2): All components in this area must add up to 2. The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally.

Number (3): All components in this section must total 3. The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally.

Number (4): All components in this section must sum to 4. The answer is 4-2, placed horizontally.

Number (5): All elements in this area must sum to 5. The answer is 2-5, placed vertically.

Number (5): All elements in this section must total 5. The answer is 4-5, placed vertically.