Wednesday brings a fresh set of NYT Pips puzzles. Today's set runs a familiar mix of equal-value, greater-than, and exact-total zones, with a couple of tightly constrained corners doing the heavy lifting. 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 strictest zones sit next to uncolored space, which tempts you to place flexible dominoes early and then locks you out of the exact-total zones later.
Our Take: Today's set rewards patience over speed. The Easy board is a clean warm-up, the Medium board tightens the constraints, and the Hard board punishes any placement made before you have read every zone condition. The recurring lesson: solve the zones that accept the fewest dominoes first.
Tomorrow's Pips drops at midnight. See you then.
