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Published on April 19, 2026.
Welcome to your essential guide for Pips, the newest addition to the New York Times game collection. Launched in August 2025, Pips offers a unique twist on dominoes, turning it into an engaging single-player game that might become your next daily pastime.
Currently, the game allows revealing the full puzzle only, making you advance to the next difficulty and start afresh. But don’t worry! We’ve provided incremental hints to help you solve each difficulty level.
How to play Pips
If you’ve played dominoes before, you’ll find Pips familiar. As detailed in our previous hints for Pips, the tiles are aligned vertically or horizontally and connect with one another. However, unlike traditional dominoes, Pips includes color-coded conditions. It’s not necessary for adjacent tiles to match.
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Each color-coded area has specific conditions to fulfill. For instance, if a single number is provided, every side of a tile within that space must collectively meet that number. It is common for only part of a tile to occupy a color-coded area.
Common conditions across levels include:
– Number: All pips in this space add up to the number.
– Equal: Each domino half in this space has the same number of pips.
– Not Equal: Each domino half in this space has different numbers of pips.
– Less than: Each domino half in this space adds up to less than the number.
– Greater than: Each domino half in this space adds up to more than the number.
Areas without color-coding impose no conditions on the segments of dominoes within them.
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Easy difficulty hints, answers for April 20 Pips
– Number (24): Total in this purple area is 24. Answer: 0-6 horizontally; 3-6 horizontally; 6-6 horizontally.
– Number (0): Each domino half in this red area has 0 pips. Answer: 0-3 horizontally; 0-0 horizontally.
– Number (12): Total in this light blue area is 12. Answer: 0-3 horizontally; 3-6 horizontally; 3-3 horizontally.
Medium difficulty hints, answers for April 20 Pips
– Less Than (2): Domino half in this purple area has less than 2 pips. Answer: 0-2 vertically.
– Greater Than (5): Domino half in this red area has more than 5 pips. Answer: 6-1 vertically.
– Equal (5): Each domino half in this light blue area has 5 pips. Answer: 5-5 horizontally; 5-2 horizontally.
– Equal (2): Each domino half in this yellow area has 2 pips. Answer: 0-2 vertically; 5-2 horizontally.
– Number (5): Total in this dark blue area is 5. Answer: 6-1 vertically; 4-5 horizontally.
– Equal (5): Each domino half in this green area has 5 pips. Answer: 5-0 horizontally; 4-5 horizontally.
– Number (12): Total in this purple area is 12. Answer: 5-0 horizontally; 6-6 horizontally.
Hard difficulty hints, answers for April 20 Pips
– Number (1): Total in this purple area is 1. Answer: 1-2 vertically; 0-3 horizontally.
– Greater Than (1): Domino half in this red area has more than 1 pip. Answer: 0-3 horizontally.
– Number (0): Domino half in this light blue area has 0 pips. Answer: 0-1 horizontally.
– Number (2): Total in this yellow area is 2. Answer: 0-1 horizontally; 1-4 vertically.
– Equal (2): Each domino half in this dark blue area has 2 pips. Answer: 1-2 vertically; 2-2 horizontally.
– Greater Than (1): Domino half in this green area has more than 1 pip. Answer: 3-3 vertically.
– Greater Than (1): Domino half in this purple area has more than 1 pip. Answer: 1-3 vertically.
Does Not Equal: Everything in this red area has differing pip numbers. Answer: 2-2 horizontally; 3-3 vertically; 6-2 vertically; 0-0 horizontally; 4-4 horizontally; 5-5 vertically; 1-6 vertically.
– Number (2): Domino half in this light blue area has 2 pips