Stuck on today’s NYT Pips puzzle? Whether you’re playing Easy, Medium, or Hard mode, this guide has all the hints and answers you need to keep your streak alive.
What Is NYT Pips?
Pips is a domino-style puzzle game from the New York Times, released in August 2025. It’s a single-player game where you place tiles to meet color-coded conditions across three difficulty levels.
How to Play Pips
Tiles are placed vertically or horizontally, similar to dominoes. Unlike traditional dominoes, the key challenge is satisfying color-coded conditions — not just matching tile numbers.
Here’s a quick breakdown of the condition types you’ll encounter:
- Number: All pips in the space must add up to the given number.
- Equal: Every domino half in the space must show the same number of pips.
- Not Equal: Every domino half must show a different number of pips.
- Less Than: Every domino half must be less than the given number.
- Greater Than: Every domino half must be greater than the given number.
Spaces with no color coding have no conditions — place freely there.
Easy Difficulty — February 19, 2026 Pips Answers
- Number (6): 1-6 placed vertically; 6-5 placed horizontally.
- Number (10): 6-5 placed horizontally; 4-4 placed vertically.
- Number (16): 6-6 placed horizontally; 4-4 placed vertically.
- Number (5): 5-1 placed horizontally.
- Number (7): 1-6 placed vertically; 5-1 placed horizontally.
Medium Difficulty — February 19, 2026 Pips Answers
- Number (0): 1-0 placed horizontally.
- Number (1): 6-1 placed horizontally; 0-0 placed vertically; 0-3 placed vertically.
- Equal (6): 6-1 placed horizontally; 5-6 placed horizontally.
- Equal (5): 5-6 placed horizontally; 3-5 placed horizontally.
- Number (3): 3-5 placed horizontally.
- Number (5): 1-1 placed horizontally; 0-3 placed vertically.
Hard Difficulty — February 19, 2026 Pips Answers
- Less Than (1): 0-4 placed horizontally.
- Less Than (3): 2-4 placed vertically.
- Number (10): 2-4 placed vertically; 6-1 placed vertically.
- Number (1): 6-1 placed vertically; 0-3 placed vertically; 2-0 placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (1): 2-0 placed horizontally.
- Number (3): 3-3 placed horizontally; 0-3 placed vertically.
- Not Equal: 2-3 placed vertically; 6-5 placed horizontally; 1-1 placed horizontally.
- Number (5): 6-5 placed horizontally.
- Number (4): 1-4 placed vertically.
- Number (2): 5-1 placed vertically; 1-4 placed vertically.
- Number (9): 3-4 placed horizontally; 5-1 placed vertically. reveal.