Wednesday brings a fresh set of NYT Pips puzzles. Today's board leans on exact totals and tight thresholds: the teal (>16) zone demands you pile up high pips, the orange (8) and navy (0) zones force exact sums, and the triple "matching" zones punish sloppy sequencing.
We've got hints, step-by-step walkthroughs, and full solutions for Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels.
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. Today's board is a well-balanced mix of exact totals, threshold checks, and three matching zones.
The teal (>16) zone demands deliberate high-pip commitment, while the twin exact-zero zones keep the low side honest.
Trickiest Puzzle: Hard - The teal (>16) zone is the trap. It requires the 6/5 and 6/4 to cross the threshold, but committing those two high dominoes early can feel wrong.
Hold them too long and the orange (>3) and purple (>4) thresholds have no clean finishers.
Our Take: Wednesday's set is a clean study in matching-zone discipline. The navy (=), pink (=), and teal (=) zones each consolidate around a single value, and keeping those three targets straight is the whole game.
Solve the teal (>16) zone first and the high-pip side of the board cascades into place. Solid midweek brainteaser.
Tomorrow's Pips drops at midnight. See you then.
