NYT Pips hints, answers for October 29, 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.
On October 29, 2026, New York Times introduced Pips, a unique dominoes-inspired game with single-player options. Currently, the game only revealed the entire puzzle when players got stuck, which led to the creation of piece-meal answers as hints to help players navigate through each difficulty level.
To play Pips, familiarize yourself with the familiar dominoes rules: tiles are placed vertically or horizontally and connected with each other. However, Pips introduces color-coded conditions to the touching tiles, which don't necessarily need to match. These conditions include: Number, Equal, Not Equal, Less than, and Greater than.
For the Easy difficulty level, here are the hints:
- Less Than (1): The answer is 0-5, placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (4): The answer is 5-4, placed vertically.
- Less Than (3): The answer is 1-6, placed vertically.
- Number (10): The answer is 0-4, placed horizontally; 1-6, placed vertically.
- Less Than (1): The answer is 0-4, placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (5): The answer is 0-6, placed vertically.
For the Medium difficulty level, here are the hints:
- Number (3): The answer is 6-1, placed vertically; 0-2, placed vertically.
- Greater Than (3): The answer is 4-6, placed vertically.
- Equal (5): The answer is 2-1, placed vertically.
- Greater Than (0): The answer is 6-3, placed horizontally; 4-6, placed vertically; 6-6, placed vertically.
- Less Than (1): The answer is 5-0, placed vertically.
- Less Than (5): The answer is 2-1, placed vertically.
And for the Hard difficulty level, here are the hints:
- Less Than (3): The answer is 2-4, placed horizontally.
- Number (8): The answer is 0-4, placed horizontally; 2-4, placed horizontally; 0-6, placed horizontally.
- Number (6): The answer is 0-6, placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (1): The answer is 6-2, placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (5): The answer is 1-5, placed vertically.
- Greater Than (7): The answer is 3-5, placed horizontally.
- Number (7): The answer is 1-3, placed horizontally; 4-3, placed horizontally.
- Equal (6): The answer is 6-2, placed horizontally; 6-6, placed vertically; 6-3, placed vertically.
- Not Equal: The answer is 1-3, placed horizontally; 5-0, placed vertically.
- Number (2): The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally.
- Equal (3): The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally; 4-3, placed horizontally; 6-3, placed vertically.
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