The New York Times has released a comprehensive solution guide for Pips, its domino-inspired puzzle game that launched in August 2025. The guide provides step-by-step hints for players working through the game’s three difficulty levels on September 2, helping those who find themselves stuck without requiring a complete puzzle reveal.
Pips adapts traditional domino gameplay by introducing color-coded constraints that players must satisfy. Unlike standard dominoes where tiles must match, Pips requires solvers to place tiles according to specific conditions within designated spaces. These conditions include numerical sum requirements, equality constraints, inequality parameters, and comparison operators that determine how tiles can be positioned relative to one another.
The puzzle system accommodates various skill levels through its tiered difficulty structure. Easy puzzles focus on basic numerical additions, medium challenges introduce equality and comparison constraints, while hard puzzles combine multiple conditions simultaneously. Players can reference the guide’s progressive hints, ranging from simple number-based solutions to complex multi-tile arrangements, allowing them to advance through challenges at their own pace without surrendering to complete puzzle solutions.
For those seeking additional daily brain teasers, complementary guides for other New York Times games, including Wordle and Strands, are also available alongside Pips solutions.
Originally reported by Mashable →
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