{
  "id": 17017978,
  "title": "NYT Pips hints, answers for October 29, 2026",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/29/nyt-pips-hints-answers-for-october-29-2026",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-29T05:12:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mashable",
    "slug": "mashable",
    "url": "https://mashable.com/entertainment/pips-nyt-games-hints-answers-easy-medium-hard-october-29-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.\n\nTo 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.\n\nFor the Easy difficulty level, here are the hints:\n- Less Than (1): The answer is 0-5, placed horizontally.\n- Greater Than (4): The answer is 5-4, placed vertically.\n- Less Than (3): The answer is 1-6, placed vertically.\n- Number (10): The answer is 0-4, placed horizontally; 1-6, placed vertically.\n- Less Than (1): The answer is 0-4, placed horizontally.\n- Greater Than (5): The answer is 0-6, placed vertically.\n\nFor the Medium difficulty level, here are the hints:\n- Number (3): The answer is 6-1, placed vertically; 0-2, placed vertically.\n- Greater Than (3): The answer is 4-6, placed vertically.\n- Equal (5): The answer is 2-1, placed vertically.\n- Greater Than (0): The answer is 6-3, placed horizontally; 4-6, placed vertically; 6-6, placed vertically.\n- Less Than (1): The answer is 5-0, placed vertically.\n- Less Than (5): The answer is 2-1, placed vertically.\n\nAnd for the Hard difficulty level, here are the hints:\n- Less Than (3): The answer is 2-4, placed horizontally.\n- Number (8): The answer is 0-4, placed horizontally; 2-4, placed horizontally; 0-6, placed horizontally.\n- Number (6): The answer is 0-6, placed horizontally.\n- Greater Than (1): The answer is 6-2, placed horizontally.\n- Greater Than (5): The answer is 1-5, placed vertically.\n- Greater Than (7): The answer is 3-5, placed horizontally.\n- Number (7): The answer is 1-3, placed horizontally; 4-3, placed horizontally.\n- Equal (6): The answer is 6-2, placed horizontally; 6-6, placed vertically; 6-3, placed vertically.\n- Not Equal: The answer is 1-3, placed horizontally; 5-0, placed vertically.\n- Number (2): The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally.\n- Equal (3): The answer is 2-3, placed horizontally; 4-3, placed horizontally; 6-3, placed vertically.",
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}