Welcome to your manual for Pips, the newest addition to the New York Times game collection. Launched in August 2025, Pips introduces a distinctive take on dominoes, offering an enjoyable solo gaming experience that might turn into your next daily entertainment ritual. At present, if you’re at an impasse, the game only allows the full puzzle to be revealed, compelling you to advance to a higher difficulty level and restart. Nevertheless, we have solutions for you! Below are incremental clues that will guide you through each difficulty tier.
How to engage with Pips
If you have ever engaged with dominoes, you will have a basic understanding of how Pips functions. As previously detailed in our hints sections for Pips, the tiles, similar to dominoes, can be arranged vertically or horizontally and connect with one another. The key distinction between a classic domino game and Pips lies in the color-coded requirements you must fulfill. The adjacent tiles do not have to be identical.
The requirements you need to satisfy pertain to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it specifies a single digit, all sides of a tile in that area must total the number indicated. It is feasible — and typical — for only part of a tile to lie within a color-coded region.
Here are typical instances you’ll encounter throughout the difficulty tiers:
– Number: All the pips in this area must total the specified number.
– Equal: Every domino half in this space must present the same count of pips.
– Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must showcase completely different counts of pips.
– Less than: Every domino half in this space must total less than the specified number.
– Greater than: Every domino half in this space must total more than the specified number.
If a section lacks any color coding, this implies there are no stipulations on the segments of dominoes residing in those areas.
Easy difficulty clues, solutions for May 10 Pips
– Less Than (1): Everything in this area must be below 1. The solution is 0-6, arranged vertically.
– Equal (4): Everything in this area must equal 4. The solution is 4-0, arranged horizontally; 4-3, arranged vertically.
– Equal (6): Everything in this area must equal 6. The solution is 0-6, arranged vertically; 6-2, arranged vertically.
– Number (8): Everything in this area must add up to 8. The solution is 4-3, arranged vertically; 3-5, arranged horizontally.
– Equal (2): Everything in this area must equal 2. The solution is 6-2, arranged vertically; 2-1, arranged horizontally.
– Less Than (2): Everything in this area must be below 2. The solution is 2-1, arranged horizontally.
Medium difficulty clues, solutions for May 10 Pips
– Greater Than (0): Everything in this area must exceed 0. The solution is 1-6, arranged horizontally.
– Equal (6): Everything in this area must be equivalent to 6. The solution is 6-6, arranged horizontally; 1-6, arranged horizontally; 6-5, arranged horizontally.
– Greater Than (3): Everything in this area must exceed 3. The solution is 6-5, arranged horizontally.
– Greater Than (1): Everything in this area must exceed 1. The solution is 6-3, arranged horizontally.
– Number (2): Everything in this area must total 2. The solution is 2-6, arranged horizontally.
– Equal (6): Everything in this area must equal 6. The solution is 0-6, arranged horizontally; 6-3, arranged horizontally; 2-6, arranged horizontally; 6-4, arranged horizontally.
– Equal (4): Everything in this area must equal 4. The solution is 6-4, arranged horizontally; 4-4, arranged horizontally.
Hard difficulty clues, solutions for May 10 Pips
– Number (5): Everything in this area must total 5. The solution is 5-6, arranged vertically.
– Number (10): Everything in this area must total 10. The solution is 5-6, arranged vertically; 4-4, arranged vertically.
– Greater Than (3): Everything in this area must exceed 3. The solution is 4-1, arranged vertically.
– Less Than (2): Everything in this area must be below 2. The solution is 0-4, arranged vertically.
– Greater Than (2): Everything in this area must exceed 2. The solution is