Struggling with Easy, Medium, or Hard levels? We’ve got all the help you need here.
Welcome to your guide on Pips, the newest game in the New York Times collection. Launched in August 2025, Pips offers a fresh take on dominoes, providing an enjoyable single-player experience that could become your next daily obsession. Currently, if you find yourself stuck, the game only allows you to reveal the entire puzzle, requiring you to start over at the next difficulty level. Don’t worry, we have you covered! Below, you’ll find piece-by-piece answers that offer hints to help you progress through each difficult level.
How to play Pips:
If you’ve played dominoes before, you’ll have a basic understanding of how Pips works. Similar to dominoes, tiles are placed either vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between traditional dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you need to address. The touching tiles do not necessarily have to match.
The conditions to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For instance, a single number requires every side of a tile in that space to add up to the given number. It’s possible for only half a tile to reside within a color-coded space. Common conditions across difficulty levels include:
– Number: All pips in this space must sum up to the number.
– Equal: Every domino half in this space must show the same number of pips.
– Not Equal: Every domino half must display a different number of pips.
– Less than: Every domino half must sum to less than the number.
– Greater than: Every domino half must sum to more than the number.
Uncolored areas have no conditions on the domino portions within those spaces.
Easy difficulty hints and answers for March 26 Pips include:
– Greater than (4): Everything must be greater than 4. The answer is 5-2, placed horizontally.
– Less than (4): Everything must be less than 4. The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally.
– Equal (2): Everything must equal 2. The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally; 2-6, placed vertically.
– Greater than (11): Everything must be greater than 11. The answer is 0-6, placed vertically; 2-6, placed vertically.
Medium difficulty hints and answers include:
– Greater than (4): Everything must be greater than 4. The answer is 6-5, placed horizontally.
– Number (3): Must add up to 3. The answer is 0-0, placed horizontally; 3-3, placed horizontally.
– Number (12): Must add up to 12. The answer is 6-5, placed horizontally; 6-0, placed horizontally.
– Equal (3): Everything must equal 3. The answer is 3-3, placed horizontally; 3-1, placed horizontally.
– Equal (2): Must be equal to 2. The answer is 2-2, placed vertically.
– Equal (1): Must be equal to 1. The answer is 3-1, placed horizontally; 1-5, placed vertically.
– Greater than (4): Must be greater than 4. The answer is 1-5, placed vertically.
Hard difficulty hints and answers include:
– Number (1): Must add up to 1. The answer is 1-2, placed vertically.
– Equal (3): Must be equal to 3. The answer is 3-2, placed vertically; 3-3, placed vertically.
– Number (8): Must add up to 8. The answer is 1-2, placed vertically; 3-2, placed vertically; 4-0, placed vertically.
– Equal (0): Must be equal to 0. The answer is 4-0, placed vertically; 0-0, placed horizontally; 0-1, placed horizontally.
– Number (8): Must add up to 8. The answer is 6-3, placed vertically; 2-6, placed horizontally.
– Number (3): Must add up to 3. The answer is 4-3, placed horizontally.
– Equal (1): Must be equal to 1. The answer is 0-1, placed horizontally; 1-1, placed vertically.
– Number (18): Must add up to 18. The answer is 2-6, placed horizontally; 6-6, placed horizontally.
– Number (4): Must add up to 4. The answer is 5-2, placed horizontally; 2-4, placed horizontally.
– Number (7): Must add up to 7. The answer is 6-3, placed vertically; 2-4, placed horizontally.
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