NYT Pips hints, answers for August 11, 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 New York Times game, Pips. Released in August 2025, this unique spin on dominoes offers a fun single-player experience that could become your new daily gaming habit. If you get stuck, here are piecemeal answers to serve as hints and guide you through each difficulty level.
Easy difficulty hints:
- Greater Than (5): The answer is 6-1 placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (3): The answer is 1-5 placed horizontally.
- Less Than (2): The answer is 1-0 placed horizontally.
- Equal (1): The answer is 6-1, 1-5, 2-1, 1-0, 1-1 placed horizontally.
Medium difficulty hints:
- Less Than (3): The answer is 3-2 and 0-0 placed vertically.
- Equal (4): The answer is 4-4 and 4-6 placed vertically.
- Greater Than (5): The answer is 4-6 placed vertically.
- Greater Than (5): The answer is 6-6 placed vertically.
- Number (7): The answer is 6-6 placed vertically and 1-0 placed vertically.
- Number (5): The answer is 1-0 placed vertically and 5-0 placed vertically.
- Number (5): The answer is 5-0 placed vertically and 5-6 placed vertically.
Hard difficulty hints:
- Number (5): The answer is 1-4 placed vertically.
- Number (2): The answer is 2-3 placed horizontally.
- Number (3): The answer is 2-3 placed horizontally.
- Number (0): The answer is 0-6 and 0-5 placed vertically.
- Number (16): The answer is 5-5 placed horizontally and 0-6 placed vertically.
- Number (2): The answer is 0-2 placed horizontally.
- Number (3): The answer is 3-3 placed horizontally.
- Equal (3): The answer is 3-3 placed horizontally and 3-5 placed vertically.
- Number (17): The answer is 0-5 placed vertically and 6-6 placed vertically.
- Number (5): The answer is 3-5 placed vertically.
- Number (0): The answer is 0-3 placed vertically.
- Equal (0): The answer is 0-2 placed horizontally, 0-0 placed vertically, 0-1 placed vertically, and 0-4 placed vertically.
- Number (10): The answer is 0-4 placed vertically and 6-2 placed horizontally.
- Number (2): The answer is 6-2 placed horizontally.
- Number (3): The answer is 3-6 placed horizontally.
- Number (9): The answer is 0-3 placed vertically and 3-6 placed horizontally.
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