Greetings this Tuesday and welcome to your guide for Pips, the latest addition to the New York Times games lineup.
Today’s puzzles have difficulty levels that escalate quickly, but we have all the strategies you need to maneuver through them.
Launched in August 2025, Pips provides a fresh take on dominoes, offering an enjoyable single-player experience that might just become your new daily gaming routine.
If you find yourself stuck, the game currently only allows for revealing the entire puzzle, which leads you to progress to the next difficulty level and restart. However, we’re here to assist you! Below are partial answers that will serve as clues to guide you through each level of difficulty.
How to play Pips
If you’ve played dominoes, you’ll grasp the fundamentals of how Pips operates. As we have mentioned in previous hints articles for Pips, the tiles, similar to dominoes, are arranged either vertically or horizontally and interconnect. The primary distinction between classic dominoes and Pips lies in the color-coded conditions you must fulfill. The adjacent tiles do not necessarily need to match.
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The requirements you need to meet are specific to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it specifies a single number, every edge of a tile in that area must total the given number. It’s possible – and often the case – for only part of a tile to be situated within a color-coded area.
Here are common scenarios you’ll face across the various difficulty levels:
Number: All the pips in this area must sum up to the number.
Equal: Each domino half in this area must possess the same count of pips.
Not Equal: Each domino half in this area must present completely distinct numbers of pips.
Less than: Each domino half in this area must sum to less than the number.
Greater than: Each domino half in this area must total more than the number.
If an area lacks any color coding, it indicates there are no conditions regarding the sections of dominoes within those spaces.
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