Stuck on today’s NYT Pips puzzle? Don’t worry – we’ve got you covered with hints and complete answers for all three difficulty levels.
What is NYT Pips?
Today’s theme: Domino-style logic puzzle with color-coded conditions
Pips is the New York Times’ domino-based puzzle game that launched in August 2025. Unlike traditional dominoes, Pips adds a unique twist with color-coded spaces that create specific number conditions you must satisfy.
Quick Guide to Playing Pips
The tiles work like dominoes – placed horizontally or vertically – but with special rules:
- Number conditions: All pips in the space must add up to the specified number
- Equal: Every domino half must show the same number
- Not Equal: Every half must be different
- Less than/Greater than: Pips must be below or above the given number
Blank spaces have no restrictions.
February 10, 2026 Answers
Easy Difficulty
- Number (2): 2-5 horizontal
- Number (11): 2-5 horizontal; 6-5 horizontal
- Number (9): 6-5 horizontal; 4-1 horizontal
- Number (3): 4-1 horizontal; 2-3 horizontal
- Number (4): 2-3 horizontal; 1-1 horizontal
Medium Difficulty
- Number (4): 1-2 vertical; 3-4 horizontal
- Equal (2): 2-2 vertical
- Equal (5): 0-5 vertical; 2-5 vertical
- Equal (2): 2-5 horizontal; 4-2 vertical
- Equal (4): 3-4 horizontal; 4-2 vertical
- Number (1): 1-0 horizontal; 0-6 vertical; 0-5 vertical
Hard Difficulty
- Greater Than (2): 0-3 horizontal
- Number (6): 6-6 horizontal; 0-3 horizontal
- Number (11): 6-6 horizontal; 3-5 horizontal
- Equal (2): 2-2 horizontal
- Number (6): 3-5 horizontal; 2-3 horizontal
- Number (0): 0-1 vertical
- Number (4): 2-3 horizontal; 2-1 vertical
- Equal (1): 0-1 vertical; 2-1 vertical; 1-6 horizontal
- Number (12): 1-6 horizontal; 6-0 horizontal answers too!