Wednesday brings a fresh set of NYT Pips puzzles. Today's boards are a steady midweek test: clean zone layouts that reward careful scanning over brute force, with a couple of strict conditions that dictate your opening moves. We've got a quick hint and the full solution 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 overlapping greater-than and equality zones create tight constraints that punish a careless first move, and the free spaces are easy to waste if you fill them too early.
Our Take: A well-balanced Wednesday set that rewards discipline over speed. The Easy board teaches the value of the zero-condition anchor, while the Hard board doubles down on constraint counting. If you got stuck, it was almost certainly a free space placed too soon.
Tomorrow's Pips drops at midnight. See you then.
