Tuesday brings a fresh set of NYT Pips puzzles. Today's board is a moderate set with a crowded condition map: thirteen zones, a handful of them sharing the same rule, which means the constraints overlap more than they first appear. We've got a quick hint and the solved board for each of the Easy, Medium, and Hard puzzles.
How to Play Pips
Pips is a domino placement puzzle where you fill a grid of color-coded zones. Each zone has a condition you must satisfy using the pip values on your dominoes. The twist: you must use every domino and meet every condition to win.
Zone Conditions:
- = All pips in this zone must equal the same number
- Not Equal All pips must be different numbers
- > Pips must be greater than the listed number
- < Pips must be less than the listed number
- Exact Number Pips must total that exact value
- No Color Free space, any domino value works
Click or tap dominoes to rotate them. Each puzzle has one or more valid solutions.
Today's Easy Pips
Today's Medium Pips
Today's Hard Pips
Puzzle Debrief
Overall Difficulty: Moderate challenge
Trickiest Puzzle: Hard - the condition map is dense and several zones share identical rules, so a misplaced domino looks legal until the final few placements lock you out.
Our Take: Today's set rewards disciplined ordering more than clever guessing. Read every condition before you touch a domino, commit to the strictest zone first, and you will spend your time placing instead of backtracking.
Tomorrow's Pips drops at midnight. See you then.