NYT Pips hints, answers for October 5, 2026

Welcome to the 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 perfect for a daily gaming habit. Currently, when stuck, the game only reveals the entire puzzle, forcing players to start over. However, piecemeal answers are provided to help navigate each difficulty level.

To play Pips, familiarize yourself with how it's played like dominoes. Tiles are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference is the color-coded conditions you must meet, which don't require matching colors. These conditions include numbers, equal, not equal, less than, greater than, and various others.

For easy difficulty, here are the piecemeal answers:

- Number (4): 1-0 (vertical), 3-6 (vertical)

- Number (9): 4-5 (horizontal)

- Number (3): 3-4 (vertical), 3-2 (horizontal)

- Less than (1): 1-0 (vertical)

- Number (9): 3-6 (vertical), 3-2 (horizontal)

- Number (6): 3-2 (horizontal), 3-4 (vertical)

Medium difficulty hints include:

- Less than (5): 4-6 (vertical)

- Number (4): 4-5 (horizontal)

- Less than (6): 4-5 (horizontal)

- Number (7): 2-5 (vertical)

- Equal (3): 3-3 (horizontal), 3-5 (vertical)

- Greater Than (4): 3-5 (vertical)

- Less than (2): 4-1 (vertical)

- Less than (4): 6-2 (vertical)

For hard difficulty, the piecemeal answers are:

- Number (6): 6-0 (vertical)

- Number (0): 1-0 (horizontal)

- Number (3): 2-3 (horizontal)

- Number (1): 6-0 (vertical), 1-0 (horizontal), 0-3 (vertical)

- Number (4): 4-2 (horizontal)

- Equal (2): 2-3 (horizontal), 4-2 (horizontal), 2-0 (vertical)

- Number (8): 4-4 (vertical)

- Number (6): 6-3 (vertical)

- Number (3): 0-3 (vertical)

- Number (1): 2-0 (vertical), 1-6 (vertical)

- Number (6): 1-6 (vertical)

- Number (9): 6-3 (vertical), 3-3 (vertical)

- Number (2): 2-2 (vertical)

Remember, areas without color coding have no conditions on the domino portions within those spaces. If you're looking for more puzzles, check out Mashable's games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more.