NYT Pips Hints and Answers for September 7, 2025: Easy, Medium, and Hard Solutions
Welcome to your comprehensive guide for Pips, the newest addition to the New York Times Games catalog. Released in August 2025, Pips reimagines classic dominoes as a compelling single-player logic puzzle designed to become a daily habit. Unlike the standard game interface—which only offers a full puzzle reveal when you are stuck—this guide provides piecemeal hints to help you solve each difficulty level without spoiling the entire board.
How to Play Pips
If you have played traditional dominoes, the basic mechanics will feel familiar. Tiles are placed vertically or horizontally and connect to adjacent tiles. However, Pips introduces a critical twist: color-coded conditional spaces dictate the value of the pips (dots) within them. Touching tiles do not necessarily need to match numbers; they must satisfy the specific mathematical condition of the colored zone they occupy.
It is common for only half of a domino tile to sit inside a conditional space. Below are the standard condition types you will encounter across all difficulty tiers:
- Number: All pips within this space must sum to the displayed number.
- Equal: Every domino half in this space must display the same number of pips.
- Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must show a different number of pips.
- Less Than: Every domino half in this space must have a pip count lower than the displayed number.
- Greater Than: Every domino half in this space must have a pip count higher than the displayed number.
Note: Areas without color coding have no conditions attached to the tile portions inside them.
Pips Easy Difficulty Hints & Answers (September 7)
- Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. Answer: 6-4, placed horizontally.
- Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. Answer: 0-5, placed horizontally.
- Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. Answer: 4-3, placed horizontally.
- Greater Than (2): Everything in this space must be greater than 2. Answer: 4-3, placed horizontally.
- Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. Answer: 2-4, placed vertically.
- Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5. Answer: 5-6, placed horizontally.
- Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. Answer: 5-6, placed horizontally.
Pips Medium Difficulty Hints & Answers (September 7)
- Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. Answer: 1-2, placed vertically.
- Less Than (6): Everything in this space must be less than 6. Answer: 3-2, placed vertically.
- Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. Answer: 1-4, placed vertically.
- Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. Answer: 1-4, placed vertically; 4-5, placed vertically; 2-5, placed vertically.
- Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. Answer: 1-2, placed vertically; 3-2, placed vertically; 2-4, placed horizontally; 2-5, placed vertically.
- Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. Answer: 2-4, placed horizontally; 6-4, placed horizontally.
- Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. Answer: 4-5, placed vertically; 2-5, placed vertically.
Pips Hard Difficulty Hints & Answers (September 7)
- Equal (5): Everything in this space must be equal to 5. Answer: 5-5, placed vertically; 5-6, placed vertically.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. Answer: 6-2, placed vertically.
- Equal (6): Everything in this space must be equal to 6. Answer: 6-2, placed 5-6, placed vertically; 6-0, placed vertically; 3-6, placed vertically.
- Number (9): Everything in this space must add up to 9. Answer: 3-6, placed vertically; 3-3, placed vertically.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. Answer: 6-2, placed vertically.
- Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. Answer: 6-0, placed vertically.
- Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. Answer: 2-2, placed vertically.
- Not Equal: Everything in this space must be different. Answer: 0-2, placed vertically; 1-5, placed vertically.
- Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2. Answer: 0-1, placed vertically; 2-3, placed horizontally.
- Number (3): Everything in this light blue space must add up to 3. Answer: 2-3, placed horizontally.
- Number (3): Everything in this orange space must add up to 3. Answer: 0-1, placed vertically; 1-1, placed horizontally.
- Equal (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. Answer: 4-4, placed vertically; 4-0, placed vertically.
- Greater Than (9): Everything in this space must be greater than 9. Answer: 6-6, placed vertically.
- Number (0): Everything in this space must add up to 0. Answer: 4-0, placed vertically.
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