Looking for help with today’s NYT Pips puzzle? You’ve come to the right place! Today’s challenge features the classic domino-style gameplay with color-coded conditions across Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels.
Quick Answer: All three difficulty levels are solvable using strategic domino placement that meets specific numerical conditions like “Equal,” “Greater Than,” “Less Than,” and “Number” requirements.
What is NYT Pips?
Pips is the New York Times’ domino-based puzzle game launched in August 2025. Unlike traditional dominoes, Pips uses color-coded spaces with specific mathematical conditions you must satisfy while placing tiles vertically or horizontally.
How to Play Pips
Each colored space has a condition:
- Number: All pips must add up to the shown number
- Equal: Every domino half must match
- Not Equal: Each half must differ
- Less Than/Greater Than: Totals must be below/above the number
Easy Mode Solutions (January 24)
- Equal (6): 6-6 vertical
- Greater Than (2): 3-4 vertical
- Number (7): 3-4 vertical; 3-2 horizontal
- Less Than (3): 3-2 horizontal
- Less Than (2): 1-3 vertical
- Equal (3): 1-3 vertical; 3-3 vertical
Medium Mode Solutions (January 24)
- Equal (3): 0-3 horizontal; 3-6 horizontal
- Number (6) Red: 1-6 vertical; 5-4 horizontal
- Number (6) Orange: 0-0 vertical; 1-6 vertical
- Number (6) Green: 3-6 horizontal; 0-0 vertical
- Equal (4): 5-4 horizontal; 4-4 vertical
- Less Than (4): 4-0 horizontal
Hard Mode Solutions (January 24)
- Number (0): 5-0 horizontal
- Greater Than (10): 5-0 horizontal; 1-6 horizontal
- Number (2): 1-6 horizontal; 3-1 horizontal
- Number (5): 3-1 horizontal; 0-2 vertical
- Equal (0): 0-2 vertical; 0-0 vertical; 1-0 vertical
- Number (1): 1-0 vertical; 0-3 horizontal
- Number (2): 1-1 horizontal
- Number (6): 2-2 horizontal; 2-5 vertical
- Number (10): 2-5 vertical; 5-1 vertical
- Number (21): 5-6 horizontal; 3-5 vertical; 0-6 horizontal
- Equal (3): 3-4 vertical; 3-3 horizontal; 3-5 vertical
Good luck with today’s puzzle! Remember, practice makes perfect with Pips.