Today's NYT Pips Answers

Pips is a domino-placement logic puzzle where every board region has a condition to satisfy. The answers below keep Easy, Medium, and Hard separate because each difficulty has its own layout.

Use the solved board when a region rule or domino placement stops making sense. The visual layout matters more than a text-only answer because orientation is part of the solve.

How to Play

Pips gives you a board, a set of dominoes, and colored regions with rules. Place every domino so the board is filled and each region's condition is satisfied. Dominoes can be rotated, so both position and orientation matter.

A region may ask for a total number of pips, matching values, different values, or a greater-than or less-than condition. Blank areas usually just need to be filled legally. Harder boards combine more regions, which means one domino can affect several constraints at once.

Start with the strictest regions first: exact totals, equality rules, and small spaces usually reduce the options fastest. Then use leftover dominoes to test the flexible regions. If a placement fits one rule but blocks another region completely, back it out and look for a domino that satisfies both sides of the board.

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