NYT Pips is the New York Times’ domino-inspired puzzle game that launched in August 2025. If you’re stuck on today’s Easy, Medium, or Hard puzzle, here are all the hints and answers you need.
What Is NYT Pips?
Pips is a single-player game based on dominoes. Tiles are placed horizontally or vertically and must meet color-coded conditions to solve the puzzle.
How to Play NYT Pips
Each color-coded space on the board comes with a rule. Here are the condition types you’ll encounter:
- Number: All pips in the space must add up to that number
- Equal: Every domino half 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 below the given number
- Greater Than: Every domino half must be above the given number
Spaces with no color coding have no conditions.
Easy Difficulty — February 24, 2026 Pips Answers
- Equal (4): 4-2 placed horizontally; 4-0 placed vertically
- Number (6): 4-2 placed horizontally; 2-2 placed vertically
- Number (6): 4-0 placed vertically; 6-1 placed horizontally
- Number (11): 6-1 placed horizontally
Medium Difficulty — February 24, 2026 Pips Answers
- Number (0): 5-0 placed horizontally
- Number (12): 5-0 placed horizontally; 2-2 placed vertically; 5-3 placed horizontally
- Equal (2): 2-2 placed vertically; 2-6 placed vertically
- Equal (4): 4-4 placed horizontally
- Equal (1): 1-1 placed vertically; 1-6 placed vertically
- Number (6) green: 2-6 placed vertically
- Number (6) purple: 1-6 placed vertically
- Number (0): 1-0 placed horizontally
Hard Difficulty — February 24, 2026 Pips Answers
- Less Than (4): 3-5 placed vertically
- Number (4): 4-3 placed horizontally
- Less Than (4): 4-3 placed horizontally
- Greater Than (4): 3-5 placed vertically
- Greater Than (4): 6-4 placed horizontally
- Number (4): 6-4 placed horizontally
- Number (4): 0-4 placed vertically
- Number (4): 2-0 placed vertically; 2-6 placed horizontally
- Greater Than (4): 2-6 placed horizontally
- Number (4): 2-0 placed vertically; 0-0 placed horizontally; 4-4 placed vertically
- Number (4): 4-4 placed vertically
- Number (4): 1-3 placed vertically; 1-1 placed horizontally; 1-5 placed vertically
- Equal (3): 1-3 placed vertically; 3-3 placed horizontally
- Greater Than (4): 1-5 placed vertically
- Number (4): 2-5 placed horizontally; 2-3 placed vertically
- Less Than (4): 2-3 placed vertically
- Greater Than (4): 6-5 placed horizontally
- Equal (5): 2-5 placed horizontally; 5-5 placed vertically; 6-5 placed horizontally