Stuck on today’s NYT Pips puzzle? Whether you’re on Easy, Medium, or Hard difficulty, this guide has all the hints and answers you need for March 9, 2026.
What Is NYT Pips?
NYT Pips is a domino-inspired puzzle game released by the New York Times in August 2025. It offers a fresh single-player experience that’s quickly become a daily habit for puzzle lovers.
Unlike traditional dominoes, Pips uses color-coded spaces with specific conditions you must satisfy. The tiles are placed vertically or horizontally, and touching tiles don’t necessarily have to match.
How to Play Pips
Each color-coded space comes with a rule that tiles must follow. Here are the conditions 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 completely different number of pips.
- Less Than: Every domino half must add up to less than the given number.
- Greater Than: Every domino half must add up to more than the given number.
Spaces with no color coding have no conditions. Only part of a tile may fall within a colored space, which is both common and intended.
If you enjoy NYT puzzle games, you might also like the March 8, 2026 NYT Pips hints and answers from the previous day.
Easy Difficulty Hints and Answers — March 9, 2026
Here are the complete solutions for the Easy puzzle:
- Number (7): 5-3 placed vertically; 2-0 placed vertically.
- Equal (3): 4-3 placed vertically; 5-3 placed vertically; 3-0 placed horizontally.
- Equal (0): 2-0 placed vertically; 3-0 placed horizontally.
- **Greater Than (4 placed vertically.
Medium Difficulty Hints and Answers — March 9, 2026
The Medium puzzle for March 9 requires a bit more thinking. Here are the answers:
- Greater Than (4): 5-1 placed horizontally.
- Equal (1): 5-1 placed horizontally; 1-6 placed horizontally.
- Number (6): 2-4 placed vertically.
- Equal (6): 1-6 placed horizontally; 6-3 placed horizontally.
- Number (6): 6-3 placed horizontally; 3-0 placed vertically.
- Equal (1): 4-1 placed horizontally; 1-1 placed horizontally.
Hard Difficulty Hints and Answers — March 9, 2026
The Hard puzzle is the most complex, with many color-coded regions to satisfy. Here are all the answers:
- Number (4): 4-1 placed vertically.
- Equal (0) — orange space: 0-1 placed vertically; 0-3 placed horizontally.
- Equal (1) — purple space: 4-1 placed vertically; 0-1 placed vertically; 1-1 placed vertically; 1-3 placed horizontally.
- Equal (2) — red space: 2-0 placed vertically; 2-3 placed horizontally.
- Equal (3) — dark blue space: 0-3 horizontally; 1-3 placed horizontally; 3-3 placed vertically; 3-4 placed horizontally; 3-5 placed horizontally; 2-3 placed horizontally.
- Number (18): 0-6 placed vertically; 6-6 placed horizontally.
- Equal (5): 3-5 placed horizontally; 5-4 placed horizontally; 6-5 placed vertically.
- Number (6): 6-5 placed vertically.
- Equal (4): 4-4 placed vertically; 5-4 placed horizontally.
For more recent puzzle help, check out the March 3, 2026 NYT Pips hints and answers as well.
More NYT Puzzle Help
If you play other NYT games too, we have you covered. See the March 8, 2026 NYT Connections puzzle 1001 hints and answers and the March 8, 2026 Wordle 1723 hint and answer for even more daily puzzle solutions.