NYT Pips Hints, Answers For 25-February-2026

NYT Pips is a quick-thinking logic puzzle built around domino tiles and color-coded rules.

Each weekday brings a new set of Easy, Medium, and Hard boards that ask you to line up pips so every region meets its requirement.

If something isn’t clicking today, try gentle hints below before jumping into the full solutions for all three boards.

How Pips Works

Pips takes standard domino tiles and drops them into color-coded regions, each with its own condition.

Every half-tile counts, and the goal is to fill the board so each zone follows its rule.

You’ll run into a few core types:

The rules stay the same across all three boards. What changes is how tightly they’re arranged.

A good first step is to solve strict Number or Equal zones before moving on to the flexible ones.

Full Answers

Easy

Greater Than (3): Everything in this space must be greater than 3.

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The answer is 5-6, placed vertically.
Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2.

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The answer is 5-2, placed vertically.
Number (30): Everything in this space must add up to 30.

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The answer is 5-6, placed vertically; 5-5, placed vertically; 5-3, placed horizontally; 5-2, placed vertically; 5-0, placed vertically.
Less Than (2): Everything in this space must be less than 2.

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The answer is 5-0, placed vertically.

Medium

Greater Than (0): Everything in this space must be greater than 0.

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The answer is 4-2, placed horizontally.
Number (15): Everything in this space must add up to 15.

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The answer is 0-6, placed horizontally; 4-2, placed horizontally; 5-5, placed horizontally.
Number (15): Everything in this space must add up to 15.

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The answer is 1-5, placed vertically; 3-5, placed vertically; 5-5, placed horizontally.
Equal: Everything in this space must be equal.

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The answer is 3-3, placed horizontally; 3-5, placed vertically; 6-3, placed horizontally; 3-1, placed horizontally.
Less Than (6): Everything in this space must be less than 6.

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The answer is 3-1, placed horizontally.

Hard

Equal: Everything in this space must be equal.

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The answer is 1-1, placed horizontally; 1-5, placed vertically.
Equal: Everything in this space must be equal.

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The answer is 3-2, placed horizontally; 6-3, placed horizontally; 3-3, placed vertically.
Greater Than (3): Everything in this space must be greater than 3.

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The answer is 6-3, placed horizontally.
Equal: Everything in this space must be equal.

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The answer is 6-6, placed vertically; 6-0, placed horizontally; 6-4, placed vertically.
Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5.

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The answer is 1-5, placed vertically.
Number (2): Everything in this space must add up to 2.

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The answer is 6-0, placed horizontally; 2-5, placed vertically.
Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3.

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The answer is 3-2, placed horizontally.
Greater Than (3): Everything in this space must be greater than 3.

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The answer is 6-4, placed vertically.
Number (5): Everything in this space must add up to 5.

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The answer is 2-5, placed vertically.
Equal: Everything in this space must be equal.

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The answer is 3-0, placed horizontally; 0-4, placed horizontally; 0-0, placed vertically.
Less Than (4): Everything in this space must be less than 4.

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The answer is 3-0, placed horizontally.
Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4.

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The answer is 2-2, placed vertically.

Tip: Use the more complex rules backward; fill in tricky zones first, then wrap the remaining dominoes into the free space.

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