Wednesday brings a fresh set of NYT Pips puzzles. Today's board rewards exact-sum discipline and early high-pip commitment: the teal (>16) zone anchors the top end, the orange (8) and twin navy (0) zones demand precise total control, and three matching zones hold the center together.
All three difficulty levels share the same core layout, so mastering the placement logic once pays off across the board. 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. Wednesday's set is a well-rounded mix of exact totals, threshold checks, and three matching zones.
The teal (>16) zone demands deliberate high-pip commitment early, while the twin exact-zero zones keep the low side honest.
Trickiest Puzzle: Hard - The teal (>16) zone is the trap. It needs both the 6/5 and the 6/4 to cross the threshold, but committing your two highest dominoes early can feel premature.
Hold them back and the orange (>3) and purple (>4) zones lose their cleanest finishers.
Our Take: This board is a 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 early and the high-pip side of the board cascades into place. Solid midweek brainteaser with a clean, learnable logic chain.
Tomorrow's Pips drops at midnight. See you then.
