Happy Friday and welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in New York Times catalog.
Launching in August 2025, Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.
Currently, if you’re stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move to the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you covered! Below are fragmented answers that will serve as tips so you can find your way through each difficulty level.
How to play Pips
If you’ve ever played dominoes, you already know how Seeds is played. As we shared in our previous tip stories for Pips, tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you must meet. The touching pieces do not necessarily have to be the same.
The conditions you must meet are specific to color-coded spaces. For example, if you provide a single number, each side of a tile in that space must add up to the given number. It is possible – and common – for only half of a tile to be within a color-coded space.
Here are common examples you’ll find across difficulty levels:
- Number: All pips in this space must add up to the number.
- Equal: Each half of the dominoes in this space must have the same number of pips.
- Different: Each half of the dominoes in this space must have a completely different number of seeds.
- Less than: Each half of the dominoes in this space must add up to less than the number.
- Greater than: Each half of the dominoes in this space must add up to more than the number.
If an area is not color-coded at all, it means there are no conditions on the domino portions within those spaces.
Easy Difficulty Hints Answers for October 12 Pips
Greater than (2): Everything in this space must be greater than 2. The answer is 3-2, placed horizontally.
Equal (2): Everything in this space must equal 2. The answer is 3-2, placed horizontally; 2-2, placed vertically; 2-0, placed horizontally; 2-1, placed vertically.
Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 2-0, placed horizontally.
Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 2-1, placed vertically.
Medium Difficulty Tips Answers for October 12 Pips
Greater than (5): Everything in this space must be greater than 5. The answer is 6-2, placed horizontally.
Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 0-5, placed vertically; 3-5, placed horizontally.
Equal (3): Everything in this space must equal 3. The answer is 0-3, placed horizontally; 3-5, placed horizontally; 1-3, placed horizontally; 3-2, placed vertically.
Equal (0): Everything in this space must equal 0. The answer is 0-0, placed horizontally.
Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 1-5, placed horizontally; 1-3, placed horizontally.
Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 1-5, placed horizontally; 3-2, placed vertically.
Hard Difficulty Tips Answers for October 11 Pips
Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-0, placed horizontally.
Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 5-1, placed horizontally.
Equal (4): Everything in this space must equal 4. The answer is 4-4, placed vertically; 4-5, placed vertically.
It’s not the same: Everything in this space must be different. The answer is 5-1, placed horizontally; 4-0, placed vertically; 6-0, placed vertically; 4-2, placed vertically.
Number (2): Everything in this dark blue space must add up to 2. The answer is 2-6, placed vertically.
Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. The answer is 6-0, placed vertically.
Number (2): Everything in this purple space must add up to 2. The answer is 4-2, placed vertically.
Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. The answer is 4-5, placed vertically.
It’s not the same: Everything in this space must be different. The answer is 2-6, placed vertically; 4-6, placed vertically; 5-3, placed horizontally.
Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 5-3, placed horizontally.
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