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  "id": 9276061,
  "title": "NYT Pips hints, answers for September 23, 2026",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/nyt-pips-hints-answers-for-september-23-2026",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-23T05:16:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mashable",
    "slug": "mashable",
    "url": "https://mashable.com/entertainment/pips-nyt-games-hints-answers-easy-medium-hard-september-23-2026"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Welcome to a guide for Pips, the newest game from the New York Times, released in August 2025. This single-player game provides a unique twist on traditional dominoes. If you get stuck, you can use these piecemeal hints to help you progress through each difficulty level.\n\nIn Pips, like dominoes, tiles are placed vertically or horizontally and connect. However, unlike traditional dominoes, the touching tiles do not need to match; they must satisfy specific color-coded conditions. These conditions vary based on the color-coded space and can include adding up to a certain number, equal or not equal numbers, being less than or greater than a number.\n\nFor easier puzzles, here are a few hints:\n- If a space is purple and has a number 0, the answer is 0-4, placed vertically.\n- If a space is red and has a number 0, the answer is 0-6, placed horizontally.\n- If a space is green and has a number 0, the answer is 4-0, placed horizontally.\n\nAt medium difficulty, the hints include:\n- If a space requires all tiles to have equal pips (6), the answer is 6-0, placed vertically; 6-5, placed horizontally.\n- If a space requires all tiles to have a value of 5, the answer is 6-5, placed horizontally; 5-1, placed horizontally.\n\nFor those playing on a harder difficulty, the hints include:\n- If a space requires tiles to add up to 2, the answer is 5-2, placed horizontally.\n- If a space requires tiles to add up to 11, the answer is 5-2, 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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  "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."
}