Welcome to your information to Pips, the most recent sport within the New York Times catalogue.

Launched in August 2025, the Pips places a singular spin on dominoes, making a enjoyable single-player expertise that might grow to be your subsequent each day gaming behavior.

At the moment, when you’re caught, the sport solely provides to disclose the complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the following problem stage and begin over. Nonetheless, now we have you lined! Under are piecemeal solutions that may function hints so that you could discover your approach by every problem stage.

The way to play Pips

If you happen to’ve ever performed dominoes, you will have a passing familiarity for a way Pips is performed. As we have shared in our earlier hints tales for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are positioned vertically or horizontally and join with one another. The principle distinction between a conventional sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances you must deal with. The touching tiles do not essentially should match.

The circumstances you must meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it gives a single quantity, each facet of a tile in that house should add as much as the quantity offered. It’s attainable – and customary – for less than half a tile to be inside a color-coded house.

Listed here are widespread examples you will run into throughout the problem ranges:

• Quantity: All of the pips on this house should add as much as the quantity.

• Equal: Each domino half on this house have to be the identical variety of pips.

• Not Equal: Each domino half on this house will need to have a totally completely different variety of pips.

• Lower than: Each domino half on this house should add as much as lower than the quantity.

• Larger than: Each domino half on this house should add as much as greater than the quantity.

If an space doesn’t have any coloration coding, it means there are not any circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Simple problem hints, solutions for March 6 Pips

Equal (2): The whole lot on this house have to be equal to 2. The reply is 2-2, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (2): The whole lot on this house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 4-0, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): The whole lot on this house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 4-0, positioned vertically; 4-4, positioned horizontally; 4-3, positioned vertically; 4-6 positioned vertically.

Larger Than (4): The whole lot on this house have to be larger than 4. The reply is 4-6 positioned vertically.

Medium problem hints, solutions for March 6 Pips

Equal (4): The whole lot on this house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 4-6, positioned vertically; 4-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (8): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 8. The reply is 4-2, positioned vertically; 3-6, positioned horizontally.

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Much less Than (6): The whole lot on this house have to be lower than 6. The reply is 0-3, positioned horizontally.

Equal (3): The whole lot on this pink house have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-6, positioned horizontally; 0-3, positioned horizontally; 3-5, positioned horizontally.

Equal (5): The whole lot on this darkish blue house have to be equal to five. The reply is 5-1, positioned horizontally; 3-5, positioned horizontally.

Equal (1): The whole lot on this inexperienced house have to be equal to 1. The reply is 5-1, positioned horizontally; 1-4, positioned horizontally.

Arduous problem hints, solutions for March 6 Pips

Quantity (15): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 15. The reply is 5-4, positioned vertically; 6-0, positioned vertically.

Larger Than (3): The whole lot on this house have to be larger than 3. The reply is 3-0, positioned vertically.

Equal (0): The whole lot on this darkish blue house have to be equal to 0. The reply is 6-0, positioned vertically; 0-4, positioned vertically; 3-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (3): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 3. The reply is 3-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (12): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 12. The reply is 6-2, positioned vertically; 3-6, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): The whole lot on this pink house have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-3, positioned vertically; 3-6, positioned vertically.

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Quantity (1): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 1. The reply is 6-1, positioned vertically; 0-0, positioned vertically.

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Quantity (4): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 4. The reply is 4-3, positioned vertically.

Quantity (4): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 4. The reply is 4-3, positioned vertically; 1-3, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (4): The whole lot on this house have to be lower than 4. The reply is 1-3, positioned horizontally.

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Larger Than (3): The whole lot on this house have to be larger than 3. The reply is 5-5 positioned vertically.

Quantity (7): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 7. The reply is 5-5 positioned vertically; 1-1, positioned horizontally.

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