Stuck on today’s NYT Pips puzzle? This domino-style game challenges you across three difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard. The theme today revolves around number conditions, equality constraints, and greater-than/less-than rules.
Quick Answer: Each level has specific color-coded spaces with rules about how domino pips must add up or match.
Easy Level Solutions (Feb 6)
- Number (5): Place 2-5 horizontally
- Equal (2): Place 2-5 horizontally and 2-2 vertically
- Less Than (1): Place 1-0 vertically
- Equal (6): Place 6-6 horizontally
- Greater Than (5): Place 5-6 horizontally
- Number (10): Place 5-6 and 3-5 horizontally
Medium Level Solutions (Feb 6)
- Greater Than (3): Place 4-3 vertically
- Number (4): Place 4-3, 2-2, and 5-1 vertically
- Number (16): Place 5-1 and 6-5 vertically
- Equal (5): Place 5-5 vertically
- Number (1): Place 1-3 vertically
- Number (21): Place 6-6 horizontally and 5-4 vertically
Hard Level Solutions (Feb 6)
- Number (8): Place 4-0 vertically and 4-5 horizontally
- Number (10): Place 4-5 and 5-1 horizontally
- Equal (0): Place 4-0 and 0-5 vertically
- Equal (1): Place 1-1 horizontally
- Equal (3): Place 4-3 vertically, 3-3 and 3-0 horizontally
- Greater Than (9): Place 6-6 and 6-0 vertically
How Pips Works
Pips is like dominoes with a twist. Instead of matching numbers, you must satisfy color-coded space requirements:
- Number spaces: All pips must add up to the shown number
- Equal spaces: All domino halves must have the same number
- Not Equal spaces: All domino halves must be different
- Greater/Less Than spaces: Pips must exceed or fall below the number
Remember, only portions of tiles within colored spaces need to follow the rules. Gray areas have no restrictions.
Good luck with tomorrow’s puzzle!