NYT Pips hints, answers for August 10, 2026

Welcome to your guide for Pips, the latest game from the New York Times released in August 2025. This unique spin on dominoes offers a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. If you get stuck, piecemeal answers are provided as hints to help you navigate through each difficulty level.

To play Pips, you'll be familiar with how dominoes are played as the tiles are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. However, the main difference lies in the color-coded conditions you must meet. These conditions are specific to the color-coded spaces and include numbers, equal, not equal, less than, greater than, and more. If an area does not have any color coding, there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.

For example, at the easy difficulty level, the "Less Than (2)" condition means everything in that space must be less than 2, with the answer being 1-5 placed horizontally. Similarly, "Greater Than (2)" implies everything in that space must be greater than 2, with the answer being 4-0 placed horizontally. At the medium difficulty level, "Greater Than (0)" states every domino half must be greater than 0, and the answer is 1-6 placed vertically.

The hard difficulty level presents more challenging conditions such as "Number (4)" where every domino half in that space must add up to 4, with the answer being 1-5 placed vertically and 6-3 placed horizontally. "Number (12)" requires every domino half to add up to 12, and the answer is 6-3 placed horizontally and 6-5 placed vertically.