Wednesday brings a fresh set of NYT Pips puzzles. Today's grid leans on heavy teal and navy clusters, so expect tight pip-matching work rather than loose guessing.
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 Trickiest Puzzle: Hard - The stacked teal (=) requirements force three dominoes to share the same pip value while simultaneously feeding adjacent zones. One careless placement cascades into a broken board.
Our Take: Today's set reuses one grid layout across all three difficulties, which makes it a strong training day. The lesson is discipline: solve the rigid zones first, and let the flexible uncolored spaces absorb the leftovers.
If you can clear Hard without a reset, you have the pattern recognition down.
Tomorrow's Pips drops at midnight. See you then.
