Pips is the New York Times’ domino-inspired puzzle game, released in August 2025. The single-player game challenges you to arrange domino tiles vertically or horizontally while satisfying conditions in color-coded spaces.
If you get stuck, the game currently reveals the entire puzzle rather than offering individual hints. These step-by-step Pips answers for August 28, 2026, provide partial solutions for the Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels.
How to play Pips
If you have played dominoes, you will already recognize the basic idea behind Pips. Domino tiles connect to one another and can be placed vertically or horizontally. However, touching tiles do not necessarily need to match.
Instead, each color-coded space has a condition that the tiles within it must satisfy. A space may contain part of a domino rather than the entire tile.
- Number: All the pips in the space must add up to the stated 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 stated number.
- Greater Than: Every domino half in the space must add up to more than the stated number.
Uncolored spaces have no conditions for the portions of dominoes placed within them.
Easy Pips hints and answers for August 28
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. Place 0-2 horizontally.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. Place 2-3 vertically.
- Greater Than (2): Everything in this space must be greater than 2. Place 0-5 horizontally.
- Less Than (1): Everything in this space must be less than 1. Place 0-2 horizontally, 0-0 vertically, and 0-5 horizontally.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. Place 1-1 vertically.
Medium Pips hints and answers for August 28
- Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. Place 3-3 horizontally.
- Less Than (5): Everything in this space must be less than 5. Place 4-0 horizontally.
- Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 3. Place 3-3 horizontally and 3-5 vertically.
- Greater Than (5): Everything in this space must be greater than 5. Place 4-6 horizontally.
- Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. Place 1-6 horizontally.
- Number (11): Everything in this space must add up to 11. Place 1-6 horizontally and 3-5 vertically.
- Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. Place 4-0 horizontally, 4-6 horizontally, and 4-5 vertically.
- Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. Place 3-1 horizontally.
- Less Than (6): Everything in this space must be less than 6. Place 4-5 vertically.
Hard Pips hints and answers for August 28
- Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. Place 1-4 horizontally.
- Greater Than (10): Everything in this space must be greater than 10. Place 5-2 vertically and 6-1 horizontally.
- Number (1): Everything in this space must add up to 1. Place 6-1 horizontally.
- Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. Place 3-5 vertically and 4-0 vertically.
- Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. Place 0-0 vertically.
- Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. Place 5-6 horizontally.
- Number (10): Everything in this space must add up to 10. Place 1-4 horizontally and 5-6 horizontally.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. Place 5-2 vertically.
- Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. Place 0-6 horizontally.
- Number (11): Everything in this space must add up to 11. Place 0-6 horizontally and 3-5 vertically.
- Number (3): Everything in this space must add up to 3. Place 3-1 vertically.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. Place 4-0 vertically and 2-0 vertically.
- Equal (1): Everything in this space must be equal to 1. Place 3-1 vertically and 1-2 horizontally.
- Number (7): Everything in this space must add up to 7. Place 1-2 horizontally and 5-0 horizontally.
- Less Than (2): Everything in this space must be less than 2. Place 5-0 horizontally, 1-0 horizontally, and 2-0 vertically.
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Source: mashable.com
