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Welcome to the guide for Pips, the latest game in the New York Times collection. Released in August 2025, Pips offers a unique spin on dominoes, crafting a fun single-player experience that may become your next daily gaming habit.
If you’re stuck, the game currently only reveals the entire puzzle, making you move to the next difficulty level and start over. But we’ve got you covered! Below are incremental answers serving as hints to guide you through each difficulty level.
How to play Pips:
If you’ve played dominoes, you’ll have a general idea of how Pips is played. As described in our previous stories, the tiles are placed vertically or horizontally and connect like dominoes. The difference lies in the color-coded conditions to consider, where touching tiles don’t necessarily have to match.
The specific conditions tied to color-coded spaces are as follows:
– Number: All pips must add to the given number.
– Equal: Every domino half must have the same number of pips.
– Not Equal: Every domino half must have a different number of pips.
– Less than: Must add up to less than the number.
– Greater than: Must add up to more than the number.
If there’s no color coding, there are no conditions on those spaces.
Easy difficulty hints for April 6 Pips:
– Number (6): Red space totals 6 with 0-6 horizontally.
– Number (6): Purple adds up to 6 with 0-6 horizontally or 6-3 vertically.
– Equal (3): Equal to 3 with 6-3 vertically or 3-3 horizontally.
– Number (5): Total 5 with 3-0 horizontally or 2-6 vertically.
– Number (6): Dark blue totals 6 with 2-6 vertically.
Medium difficulty hints for April 6 Pips:
– Not Equal: All different with 0-6, 5-6 horizontally or 2-4 horizontally.
– Equal (4): Equal to 4 with 2-4 horizontally or 4-0 vertically.
– Equal (6): Equals 6 with 0-6, 5-6 horizontally, 6-6, or 6-2 vertically.
– Less Than (2): Less than 2 with 4-0 vertically.
– Less Than (4): Less than 4 with 6-2 vertically.
Hard difficulty hints for April 6 Pips:
– Number (7): Orange totals 7 with 6-6 horizontally or 1-4 vertically.
– Number (11): Totals 11 with 5-6 vertically.
– Less Than (6): Less than 6 with 0-3 horizontally.
– Number (7): Red totals 7 with 1-4 vertically.
– Number (3): Totals 3 with 3-2 horizontally.
– Equal (2): Equals 2 with 3-2 or 2-5 horizontally.
– Number (6): Green totals 6 with 6-4 vertically.
– Number (6): Light blue totals 6 with 1-0 vertically.
– Equal (0): Equals 0 with 0-2 horizontally or 0-0 vertically.
– Equal (4): Equals 4 with 4-4 or 6-4 vertically, 4-0 horizontally.
– Equal (0): Orange equals 0 with 1-0 vertically or 4-0 horizontally.
For more puzzles, Mashable offers Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more. Check out the games hub for more options.