Pips, the New York Times’ latest addition to its gaming catalog, offers players a fresh take on the classic domino game. Launched in August 2025, this single-player puzzle experience combines traditional domino mechanics with color-coded constraints that create engaging challenges across multiple difficulty levels.
The game requires players to position domino tiles vertically or horizontally while satisfying specific conditions tied to colored zones. Unlike standard dominoes, matching adjacent tiles is not necessary. Instead, players must interpret various rules such as sum requirements, equality conditions, or comparative values (greater than or less than) for the pips within each designated space.
For those seeking guidance on today’s puzzles, solutions are available for easy, medium, and hard difficulties. Easy-level clues include straightforward sum requirements like placing a 6-4 tile horizontally to achieve a sum of six. Medium challenges introduce inequality constraints, such as positioning tiles where all pips must equal a specific value. Hard difficulty tests player skill with complex combinations of conditions, including “not equal” requirements and larger numerical targets.
Players should note that the game’s built-in help system reveals entire puzzles at once, requiring advancement to the next level. Uchemedia provides granular hints allowing solvers to progress at their own pace across all difficulty tiers for September 7’s puzzle.
Originally reported by Mashable →
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