Welcome to your information to Pips, the newest 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 turn into your subsequent day by day gaming behavior.

At the moment, if you happen to’re caught, the sport solely gives to disclose your entire puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent issue stage and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve you coated! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that may function hints to be able to discover your method by way of every issue stage.

The way to play Pips

When you’ve ever performed dominoes, you may 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 standard sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded situations it’s important to deal with. The touching tiles do not essentially should match.

The situations it’s important to 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 supplied. It’s potential – and customary – for under half a tile to be inside a color-coded house.

Listed here are widespread examples you may 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 should be the identical variety of pips.

• Not Equal: Each domino half on this house should have a totally totally different variety of pips.

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

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

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

Straightforward issue hints, solutions for March 7 Pips

Quantity (7): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 7. The reply is 6-0, positioned horizontally; 1-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (0): Every little thing on this house should be equal to 0. The reply is 6-0, positioned horizontally; 0-0, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (4): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 4. The reply is 1-3, positioned vertically; 1-2, positioned horizontally.

Equal (2): Every little thing on this house should be equal to 2. The reply is 1-2, positioned horizontally; 2-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (3): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 3. The reply is 2-3, positioned horizontally.

Medium issue hints, solutions for March 7 Pips

Equal (3): Every little thing on this house should be equal to three. The reply is 3-3, positioned horizontally; 3-6, positioned vertically.

Equal (1): Every little thing on this house should be equal to 1. The reply is 1-1, positioned vertically; 5-1, positioned horizontally.

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Higher Than (0): Every little thing on this house should be larger than 0. The reply is 2-0, positioned horizontally.

Higher Than (0): Every little thing on this house should be larger than 0. The reply is 4-6, positioned horizontally.

Equal (6): Every little thing on this house should be equal to six. The reply is 3-6, positioned vertically; 6-0, positioned horizontally; 4-6, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (10): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 10. The reply is 5-5, positioned horizontally.

Exhausting issue hints, solutions for March 7 Pips

Quantity (3): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 3. The reply is 3-6, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (18): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 18. The reply is 3-6, positioned horizontally; 6-0, positioned horizontally; 6-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 10. The reply is 6-5, positioned vertically; 3-5, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): Every little thing on this house should be equal to 4. The reply is 4-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (0): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 0. The reply is 6-0, positioned horizontally; 0-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (1): Every little thing on this house should be equal to 1. The reply is 1-2, positioned horizontally; 1-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): Every little thing on this pink house should be equal to three. The reply is 3-5, positioned vertically; 0-3, positioned vertically; 1-3, positioned vertically.

Quantity (5): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 5. The reply is 1-2, positioned horizontally; 2-4, positioned horizontally; 1-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): Every little thing on this orange house should add as much as 10. The reply is 1-5, positioned vertically; 4-5, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): Every little thing on this pink house should be equal to 4. The reply is 1-4, positioned vertically; 2-4, positioned horizontally; 4-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (3): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 3. The reply is 0-2, positioned vertically; 1-4, positioned vertically; 2-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (2): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 2. The reply is 0-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (7): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 7. The reply is 4-6, positioned vertically; 2-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (18): Every little thing on this house should add as much as 18. The reply is 4-6, positioned vertically; 6-6, positioned vertically.

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