NYT Pips hints, answers for August 7, 2026
The New York Times' latest game, Pips, brings domino fun to your desktop. How to play Pips as well as hints in case you get stuck.
Welcome to your guide for the latest game from the New York Times, Pips, released in August 2025. This unique twist on dominoes offers a single-player experience that can become your new daily gaming routine. If you find yourself stuck, we have piecemeal answers to provide hints and help you progress through each difficulty level.
To play Pips, similar to dominoes, tiles are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with one another. However, unlike traditional dominoes, Pips features color-coded conditions that must be met. These conditions include specific numbers, equal values, or ranges for the pips in each space.
For easy difficulty, the hints are as follows:
- Number (2): The answer is 3-2, placed horizontally.
- Number (8): The answers are 3-2, placed horizontally, and 0-5, placed horizontally.
- Number (1): The answers are 0-5, placed horizontally, and 1-6, placed horizontally.
Medium difficulty hints include:
- Greater Than (2): The answer is 6-3, placed horizontally.
- Equal (2): The answers are 2-5, placed horizontally, and 2-1, placed vertically.
- Number (10): The answers are 2-5, placed horizontally, and 5-4, placed vertically.
- Number (10): The answers are 5-4, placed vertically, and 6-0, placed horizontally.
- Number (7): The answer is 3-4, placed vertically.
- Less Than (4): The answer is 1-1, placed horizontally.
For hard difficulty, the hints are:
- Number (3): The answer is 3-6, placed vertically.
- Number (0): The answer is 0-2, placed horizontally.
- Number (2): The answers are 0-2, placed horizontally, and 2-1, placed vertically.
- Number (1): The answers are 1-0, placed vertically, 2-1, placed vertically, and 1-3, placed vertically.
- Number (4): The answer is 0-4, placed vertically.
- Number (3): The answer is 3-4, placed horizontally, and 3-4, placed horizontally.
- Number (4): The answer is 3-4, placed horizontally.
- Number (3): The answer is 1-3, placed vertically.
- Number (0): The answer is 0-3, placed vertically.
- Number (2): The answer is 2-3, placed vertically.
- Number (4): The answer is 4-5, placed horizontally.
- Number (5): The answers are 4-5, placed horizontally, and 5-5, placed horizontally.
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