Looking for the New York Times Pips answers for August 24, 2026? This guide provides step-by-step hints for the Easy, Medium, and Hard puzzles, along with the tile placements needed to solve each board.
Released in August 2025, Pips puts a fresh spin on dominoes, turning the familiar tile game into a single-player daily puzzle. If you are stuck, these partial answers offer useful hints without revealing the entire puzzle.
How to play Pips
If you have played dominoes, you will already recognize some of the basics of Pips. Domino tiles can be placed vertically or horizontally, and the tiles connect to one another. However, unlike traditional dominoes, Pips uses color-coded spaces with specific conditions.
Touching tiles do not necessarily have to match. Instead, you must satisfy the rule assigned to each colored area. A space may contain only half of a domino tile, which is common in the game.
Pips rules and color conditions
- Number: All the pips in the space must add up to the displayed number.
- Equal: Every domino half in the space must contain the same number of pips.
- Not Equal: Every domino half in the space must contain a different number of pips.
- Less than: Every domino half in the space must add up to less than the displayed number.
- Greater than: Every domino half in the space must add up to more than the displayed number.
Areas without color coding have no conditions for the portions of dominoes placed within them.
Easy Pips hints and answers for August 24
- Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 1-0, placed vertically; 1-6, placed horizontally.
- Number (12): Everything in this space must add up to 12. The answer is 6-2, placed horizontally; 1-6, placed horizontally.
- Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 6-2, placed horizontally; 2-2, placed horizontally.
- Number (12): Everything in this space must add up to 12. The answer is 6-6, placed horizontally.
Medium Pips hints and answers for August 24
- Less Than (4): Everything in this space must be less than 4. The answer is 3-4, placed horizontally.
- Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. The answer is 4-4, placed horizontally; 3-4, placed horizontally.
- Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 3. The answer is 3-3, placed horizontally; 3-2, placed vertically.
- Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 2-2, placed horizontally.
- Less Than (2): Everything in this space must be less than 2. The answer is 1-5, placed horizontally.
- Number (8): Everything in this space must add up to 8. The answer is 3-2, placed vertically; 6-4, placed horizontally.
- Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 1-5, placed vertically; 5-3, placed vertically.
- Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. The answer is 6-4, placed horizontally; 5-3, placed vertically.
Hard Pips hints and answers for August 24
- Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 5-0, placed vertically; 5-4, placed horizontally.
- Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. The answer is 5-4, placed horizontally; 4-3, placed horizontally.
- Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 3. The answer is 4-3, placed horizontally; 0-3, placed horizontally; 3-3, placed vertically.
- Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 5-0, placed vertically; 1-6, placed vertically.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 0-3, placed horizontally; 2-2, placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (8): Everything in this space must be greater than 8. The answer is 1-6, placed vertically; 6-2, placed vertically.
- Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. The answer is 4-1, placed vertically; 6-0, placed vertically.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 4-1, placed vertically; 1-0, placed horizontally.
- Equal (0): Everything in this space must be equal to 0. The answer is 6-0, placed vertically; 1-0, placed horizontally.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 6-2, placed vertically.
- Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. The answer is 5-5, placed horizontally.
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