The New York Times has introduced a fresh gaming experience called Pips, released in August 2025. This innovative game presents a modern twist on traditional dominoes, offering a captivating single-player format. Players engage with colorful tiles that must satisfy specific mathematical conditions during gameplay.
Understanding Pips Gameplay
Pips combines elements familiar to dominoes players with unique color-coded challenges. Unlike traditional dominoes, matching tiles isn’t necessarily required. Instead, players must fulfill the conditions associated with various colored spaces.
- Number: The sum of all pips must equal the specified number.
- Equal: Every tile half must have the same number of pips.
- Not Equal: Each tile half must display different numbers of pips.
- Less than: Pips must total less than the given number.
- Greater than: Pips must exceed the specified number.
Spaces without color codes have no specific conditions linked to the tiles within them.
Pips Tips for October 16, 2025
Easy Difficulty Solutions
- Red Space (6): 4-3 (horizontal), 6-2 (horizontal)
- Space (7): 6-2 (horizontal), 1-6 (vertical)
- Space (12): 1-6 (vertical), 6-5 (horizontal)
- Equal Space (5): 6-5 (horizontal), 5-5 (vertical), 5-4 (horizontal)
- Less Than Space (3): 4-0 (horizontal)
Medium Difficulty Solutions
- Purple Space (1): 1-1 (horizontal), 1-3 (horizontal), 1-2 (vertical)
- Space (6): 1-2 (vertical), 2-3 (vertical), 2-5 (vertical)
- Space (21): 1-3 (horizontal), 6-6 (horizontal), 6-5 (vertical)
- Equal Space (5): 2-5 (vertical), 4-5 (vertical), 6-5 (vertical)
Hard Difficulty Solutions
- Less Than Space (4): 6-2 (horizontal)
- Equal Space (5): 5-6 (vertical), 5-5 (horizontal)
- Equal Space (6): 5-6 (vertical), 6-2 (horizontal)
- Space (5): 3-5 (horizontal), 0-0 (vertical), 0-2 (horizontal)
- Space (2): 6-1 (vertical), 5-1 (horizontal)
- Equal Space (4): 3-4 (horizontal), 4-4 (vertical)
- Less Than Space (4): 3-4 (horizontal)
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