Pips

🎯 What is Pips?

Pips is the daily logic-puzzle game from the New York Times. Each day the puzzle drops a small grid of domino-like tiles — usually between six and twelve — and asks you to place them so that they satisfy a set of region-based constraints (equal values, different values, sums matching a target, no dominoes touching).

The mechanic is unique among NYT Games: it's not about guessing, it's about deduction. Each tile has two values, and you have to find the placement that satisfies every constraint without running out of moves. Difficulty scales across Easy, Medium, and Hard.

💡 How to Play Pips

Open nytimes.com/games/pips to see today's puzzle: a grid of empty cells and a handful of domino-like tiles.
Read the region constraints. Each colored region has a rule — equal values, different values, no dominoes, or a sum target.
Drag a tile into a position and rotate it. Each placement must satisfy the constraints of every region it touches.
Use process of elimination. A tile with a single available value goes in first; a region with one empty cell gets whatever value satisfies its rule.
If you make a mistake, tap a tile to pick it up and try a different placement.
Solve the grid by placing every tile correctly. Pips runs Easy, Medium, and Hard each day, and the archive keeps the past few weeks.