The New York Times has released a helpful guide for players tackling Pips, a domino-based puzzle game that debuted in August 2025. The game offers a fresh take on the classic domino experience by incorporating color-coded constraints that challenge players to think strategically about tile placement.
Pips differs from traditional dominoes in that matching adjacent tiles is not required. Instead, players must satisfy specific conditions tied to colored spaces on the board. These conditions include numerical sums, equality requirements, and comparative constraints like “greater than” or “less than” designations. Players often find that individual tile halves extend into multiple spaces, requiring careful consideration of overlapping requirements.
For those seeking assistance, the game’s built-in hint system currently only offers complete puzzle solutions, which forces players to advance without learning from their mistakes. To address this limitation, a comprehensive breakdown of strategies and solutions is now available for Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels from August 26. This resource provides incremental guidance that allows players to work through puzzles independently while having support when they get stuck.
Pips has become an engaging daily gaming option for puzzle enthusiasts, joining the New York Times’ expanding collection of interactive games. Players interested in mastering the game’s mechanics can reference detailed hints for each difficulty tier to improve their puzzle-solving skills progressively.
Originally reported by Mashable →
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