Stuck on today’s NYT Pips puzzle? Don’t worry! The theme today involves mastering color-coded domino challenges across Easy, Medium, and Hard levels. Here’s everything you need to solve February 5, 2026’s puzzle.
What is NYT Pips?
Pips is the New York Times’ latest puzzle game that puts a fresh spin on classic dominoes. Released in August 2025, this single-player game uses color-coded conditions to create challenging daily puzzles.
How to Play
Unlike traditional dominoes, Pips uses color-coded spaces with specific rules:
- Number: All pips must add up to the shown number
- Equal: Every domino half must match
- Not Equal: Every half must be different
- Less Than: Totals must be below the number
- Greater Than: Totals must exceed the number
Today’s Answers
Easy Difficulty
- Less Than (2): 1-5 (horizontal)
- Equal (5): 1-5 (horizontal), 5-2 (vertical), 5-4 (vertical)
- Greater Than (2): 5-4 (vertical)
- Number (5): 5-2 (vertical), 3-0 (horizontal)
- Equal (0): 1-0 (vertical), 3-0 (horizontal)
Medium Difficulty
- Number (2): 2-2 (vertical)
- Number (7): 3-5 (vertical), 2-2 (vertical)
- Number (4): 4-2 (vertical)
- Number (3): 3-2 (vertical)
- Equal (2): 4-2 (vertical), 3-2 (vertical)
- Number (10): 4-6 (horizontal)
- Greater Than (1): 6-2 (horizontal)
- Number (8): 0-6 (horizontal), 6-2 (horizontal)
Hard Difficulty
- Number (5): 5-1 (horizontal), 4-5 (horizontal)
- Number (18): 6-6 (vertical), 6-0 (horizontal)
- Equal (0): 4-0 (vertical), 6-0 (vertical), 3-0 (horizontal), 0-5 (horizontal)