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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest addition to the New York Times games catalogue. Released in August 2025, Pips offers a fresh take on dominoes, providing a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.
If you’re currently stuck, the game only allows the option to reveal the entire puzzle, compelling you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. But we have you covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints to help you navigate through each difficulty level.
How to play Pips
If you’ve played dominoes before, you’ll find Pips similar. The tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The primary difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you must address; the touching tiles don’t necessarily have to match.
The conditions are tied to the color-coded spaces. For instance, if a single number is provided, each side of a tile in that space must add up to the given number. It’s possible — and common — for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space. Here are common examples you’ll encounter in different difficulty levels:
– Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the specified number.
– Equal: Every domino half in this space must have the same number of pips.
– Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.
– Less Than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the specified number.
– Greater Than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the specified number.
If there’s no color coding in an area, it means there are no conditions for the domino portions within those spaces.
Easy difficulty hints for March 22 Pips
– Number (6): Must add up to 6. Answer: 6-0, placed vertically.
– Number (5): Must add up to 5. Answer: 6-0, placed vertically; 5-5, placed vertically.
– Number (2): Must add up to 2. Answer: 2-3, placed horizontally.
– Equal (3): Must equal 3. Answer: 2-3, placed horizontally; 1-3, placed vertically.
– Number (5): Must add up to 5. Answer: 1-3, placed vertically; 6-4, placed vertically.
– Number (6): Must add up to 6. Answer: 6-4, placed vertically.
Medium difficulty hints for March 22 Pips
– Less Than (4): Must be less than 4. Answer: 3-2, placed vertically.
– Greater Than (4): Must be greater than 4. Answer: 6-0, placed vertically.
– Equal (2): Must equal 2. Answer: 2-2, placed horizontally; 0-2, placed horizontally.
– Greater Than (4): Must be greater than 4. Answer: 6-0, placed vertically.
– Equal (1): Must equal 1. Answer: 1-1, placed horizontally; 1-5, placed vertically.
– Less Than (2): Must be less than 2. Answer: 6-0, placed vertically; 0-2, placed horizontally.
Hard difficulty hints for March 22 Pips
– Number (2): Must add up to 2. Answer: 2-2, placed vertically.
– Number (3): Must add up to 2. Answer: 3-3, placed horizontally.
– Number (3): Must add up to 3. Answer: 3-3, placed horizontally.
– Number (2): Must add up to 2. Answer: 2-4, placed vertically.
– Number (0): Must add up to 0. Answer: 0-3, placed vertically.
– Number (4): Must add up to 4. Answer: 4-3, placed vertically.
– Number (2): Must add up to 2. Answer: 2-2, placed vertically.
– Number (0): Must add up to 0. Answer: 1-0, placed horizontally.
– Number (4): Must add up to 4. Answer: 2-4, placed vertically.
– Number (3): Must add up to 3. Answer: 0-3, placed vertically.
– Number (3): Must add up to 3. Answer: 4-3, placed vertically.
– Number (3): Must add up to 3. Answer: 3-1, placed horizontally.
– Number (0): Must add up to 0. Answer: