Welcome to your resource for Pips, the newest game featured in the New York Times collection. Launched in August 2025, Pips offers a fresh take on dominoes, providing an enjoyable solo gaming experience that might just become your daily routine. At present, if you find yourself stuck, the game only allows you to unveil the entire puzzle, compelling you to advance to the next difficulty tier and restart. Nonetheless, we are here to assist! Below are incremental answers that will act as clues for you to navigate through each level of difficulty.

How to engage with Pips

If you’ve engaged in dominoes before, you’ll have a basic understanding of how Pips operates. As we have detailed in our earlier hint articles for Pips, the tiles, akin to dominoes, are arranged either vertically or horizontally and connect with one another. The primary distinction between a standard domino game and Pips lies in the color-coded requirements you must fulfill. The adjacent tiles need not match.

The requirements you need to satisfy are specific to the color-coded regions. For instance, if it shows a single number, every side of a tile in that area must total the number indicated. It is common — and possible — for only part of a tile to fall within a color-coded area.

Here are typical scenarios you will encounter at various difficulty levels:

Number: All the pips in this area must sum to the number.

Equal: Every domino half in this area must possess the same number of pips.

Not Equal: Every domino half in this area must consist of entirely distinct numbers of pips.

Less than: Every domino half in this area must total less than the number.

Greater than: Every domino half in this area must total more than the number.

If a region lacks any color coding, it indicates there are no restrictions on the domino portions within those areas.

Easy difficulty hints, answers for May 15 Pips

Number (1): All items in this area must sum to 1. The answer is 0-0, positioned vertically; 1-0, positioned horizontally.

Equal (4): All items in this area must equal 4. The answer is 4-5, positioned horizontally; 4-6, positioned horizontally.

Number (7): All items in this area must total 7. The answer is 4-6, positioned horizontally; 1-3, positioned horizontally.

Medium difficulty hints, answers for May 15 Pips

Number (5): All items in this area must total 5. The answer is 4-5, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): All items in this area must equal 4. The answer is 0-4, positioned vertically; 4-5, positioned vertically.

Not Equal: All items in this area must differ. The answer is 3-3, positioned horizontally; 1-5, positioned horizontally; 4-2, positioned vertically; 0-6, positioned vertically.

Number (11): All items in this area must sum to 11. The answer is 5-6, positioned horizontally; 5-2, positioned vertically.

Equal (2): All items in this area must equal 2. The answer is 5-2, positioned vertically; 2-1, positioned vertically.

Number (1): All items in this area must total 1. The answer is 2-1, positioned vertically.

Hard difficulty hints, answers for May 15 Pips

Number (10): All items in this area must sum to 10. The answer is 5-3, positioned horizontally; 5-6, positioned vertically.

Number (5): All items in this area must total 5. The answer is 5-3, positioned horizontally; 2-1, positioned vertically.

Number (10): All items in this area must total 10. The answer is 5-1, positioned vertically; 5-4, positioned vertically.

Number (4): All items in this area must total 4. The answer is 5-4, positioned vertically.

Number (12): All items in this area must sum to 12. The answer is 5-6, positioned vertically; 0-1, positioned horizontally; 6-4, positioned vertically.

Equal (1): All items in this area must equal 1. The answer is 2-1, positioned vertically; 0-1, positioned horizontally; 1-1, positioned horizontally; 1-3, positioned vertically.

Number (6): All items in this area must sum to 6. The answer is 6-6, positioned horizontally.

Equal (4): All items in this area must equal 4. The answer is 6-4, positioned vertically; 4-4, positioned