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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, creating a fun single-player experience. However, if you’re stuck, the game only reveals the entire puzzle, forcing you to move on to the next difficulty level and start over. We’ve got you covered with piecemeal answers to guide you through each difficulty level.
How to play Pips
If you’ve played dominoes, you’ll understand how Pips is played. As shared in previous hints stories, tiles are placed vertically or horizontally, connecting with each other. The main difference lies in the color-coded conditions. Touching tiles don’t necessarily have to match.
The conditions specific to the color-coded spaces include:
– Number: All pips in the space must add up to the number.
– Equal: Every domino half in the space must be the same number of pips.
– Not Equal: Every domino half must have a different number of pips.
– Less than: Every domino half must add up to less than the number.
– Greater than: Every domino half must add up to more than the number.
Uncolored areas have no conditions.
Easy difficulty hints, answers for May 10 Pips
– Less Than (1): Everything must be less than 1. Answer: 0-6, placed vertically.
– Equal (4): Everything must be equal to 4. Answer: 4-0, horizontally; 4-3, vertically.
– Equal (6): Everything must be equal to 6. Answer: 0-6, vertically; 6-2, vertically.
– Number (8): Everything must add up to 8. Answer: 4-3, vertically; 3-5, horizontally.
– Equal (2): Everything must be equal to 2. Answer: 6-2, vertically; 2-1, horizontally.
– Less Than (2): Everything must be less than 2. Answer: 2-1, horizontally.
Medium difficulty hints, answers for May 10 Pips
– Greater Than (0): Everything must be greater than 0. Answer: 1-6, horizontally.
– Equal (6): Everything must be equal to 6. Answer: 6-6, horizontally; 1-6, horizontally; 6-5, horizontally.
– Greater Than (3): Everything must be greater than 3. Answer: 6-5, horizontally.
– Greater Than (1): Everything must be greater than 1. Answer: 6-3, horizontally.
– Number (2): Everything must add up to 2. Answer: 2-6, horizontally.
– Equal (6): Everything must be equal to 6. Answer: 0-6, horizontally; 6-3, horizontally; 2-6, horizontally; 6-4, horizontally.
– Equal (4): Everything must be equal to 4. Answer: 6-4, horizontally; 4-4, horizontally.
Hard difficulty hints, answers for May 10 Pips
– Number (5): Everything must add up to 5. Answer: 5-6, vertically.
– Number (10): Everything must add up to 10. Answer: 5-6, vertically; 4-4, vertically.
– Greater Than (3): Everything must be greater than 3. Answer: 4-1, vertically.
– Less Than (2): Everything must be less than 2. Answer: 0-4, vertically.
– Greater Than (2): Everything must be greater than 2. Answer: 0-4, vertically.
– Less Than (2): Everything must be less than 2. Answer: 1-1, vertically.
– Greater Than (2): Everything must be greater than 2. Answer: 4-4, vertically.
– Greater Than (4): Everything must be greater than 4. Answer: 1-5, vertically.
– Equal (1): Everything must be equal to 1. Answer: 1-5, vertically; 4-1, vertically; 1-2, vertically.
– Number (2): Everything must add up to 2. Answer: 1-1, vertically; 1-3, vertically.
– Greater Than (2): Everything must be greater than 2. Answer: 1-3, vertically.
– Equal (2): Everything must be equal to 2. Answer: 1-2, vertically; 2-2, vertically.
– Less Than (2): Everything must be less than 2. Answer: 0-1, horizontally.
– Number (6): Everything must add up to