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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue. Released in August 2025, Pips offers a unique spin on dominoes for a fun single-player experience. If you’re stuck, the game typically reveals the entire puzzle, but we provide hints to guide you through each difficulty level.
How to play Pips: Similar to dominoes, Pips involves placing tiles vertically or horizontally, connecting them based on color-coded conditions. The touching tiles don’t necessarily have to match.
Conditions for play include:
– Number: Pips within this space must add up to the specified number.
– Equal: Every domino half in the space must share the same number of pips.
– Not Equal: Every domino half must have a different number of pips.
– Less than: Pips must total less than the specified number.
– Greater than: Pips must total more than the specified number.
Hints for April 19:
– Easy:
– Equal (0): 6-0 horizontally; 0-2 vertically.
– Equal (3): 3-3 vertically.
– Number (1): 1-4 vertically.
– Equal (4): 1-4 vertically; 2-4 horizontally.
– Equal (2): 0-2 vertically; 2-4 horizontally.
– Medium:
– Number (7): 3-0 horizontally; 5-4 horizontally.
– Equal (0): 3-0 horizontally; 0-5 vertically.
– Equal (5): 5-4 horizontally; 5-1 horizontally.
– Less Than (7): 1-6 vertically; 0-5 vertically.
– Number (7): 5-1 horizontally; 1-6 vertically.
– Equal (6): 6-6 horizontally; 6-5 vertically.
– Greater Than (1): 6-5 vertically.
– Hard:
– Number (2): 1-0 horizontally; 1-2 vertically.
– Less Than (2): 1-0 horizontally; 0-2 horizontally; 0-0 vertically.
– Number (5): 0-2 horizontally; 3-4 vertically.
– Number (5): 3-4 vertically; 1-6 vertically.
– Number (2): 1-2 vertically; 0-6 vertically.
– Equal (3): 3-3 vertically.
– Number (9): 1-6 vertically; 3-6 vertically.
– Number (8): 6-4 vertically; 4-2 horizontally.
– Number (4): 4-2 horizontally; 2-6 horizontally.
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