NYT Pips hints, solutions for December 29

Merry Christmas and Joyful Holidays! Welcome to your information to Pips, the newest sport within the New York Occasions catalogue.

Launched in August 2025, the Pips places a singular spin on dominoes, making a enjoyable single-player expertise that might turn into your subsequent each day gaming behavior.

At the moment, for those who’re caught, the sport solely gives to disclose the complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the following issue stage and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve got you lined! Under are piecemeal solutions that can function hints in an effort to discover your manner by every issue stage.

Find out how to play Pips

If you happen to’ve ever performed dominoes, you may have a passing familiarity for the way Pips is performed. As we have shared in our earlier hints tales for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are positioned vertically or horizontally and join with one another. The principle distinction between a conventional sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances you need to deal with. The touching tiles do not essentially should match.

The circumstances you need to meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it offers a single quantity, each aspect of a tile in that house should add as much as the quantity offered. It’s doable – and customary – for under half a tile to be inside a color-coded house.

Listed here are frequent examples you may run into throughout the issue ranges:

• Quantity: All of the pips on this house should add as much as the quantity.

• Equal: Each domino half on this house have to be the identical variety of pips.

• Not Equal: Each domino half on this house should have a very completely different variety of pips.

• Lower than: Each domino half on this house should add as much as lower than the quantity.

• Higher than: Each domino half on this house should add as much as greater than the quantity.

If an space doesn’t have any colour coding, it means there aren’t any circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Straightforward issue hints, solutions for Dec. 29 Pips

Higher Than (5): Every part on this house have to be larger than 5. The reply is 6-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (1): Every part on this orange house should add as much as 1. The reply is 4-1, positioned vertically.

Quantity (8): Every part on this house should add as much as 8. The reply is 4-4, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (3): Every part on this house have to be lower than 3. The reply is 2-4, positioned horizontally.

Equal (4): Every part on this crimson house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 6-4, positioned horizontally.

Equal (5): Every part on this inexperienced house have to be equal to five. The reply is 5-5, positioned horizontally.

Medium issue hints, solutions for Dec. 29 Pips

Higher Than (0): Every part on this house have to be larger than 0. The reply is 1-5, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (10): Every part on this darkish blue house should add as much as 10. The reply is 1-5, positioned horizontally; 5-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): Every part on this purple house should add as much as 10. The reply is 6-4, positioned horizontally; 4-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): Every part on this crimson house should add as much as 10. The reply is 6-4, positioned horizontally; 6-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): Every part on this inexperienced house should add as much as 10. The reply is 6-6, positioned vertically; 4-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (10): Every part on this gentle blue house should add as much as 10. The reply is 5-2, positioned vertically; 4-3, positioned horizontally.

Laborious issue hints, solutions for Dec. 29 Pips

Quantity (3): Every part on this purple house should add as much as 3. The reply is 2-3, positioned horizontally.

Equal (2): Every part on this house have to be equal to 2. The reply is 2-3, positioned horizontally; 2-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (12): Every part on this inexperienced house should add as much as 12. The reply is 6-2, positioned horizontally; 6-3, positioned vertically.

Much less Than (3): Every part on this house have to be lower than 3. The reply is 6-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (3): Every part on this orange house should add as much as 3. The reply is 1-1, positioned vertically; 3-1, positioned horizontally.

Higher Than (3): Every part on this house have to be larger than 3. The reply is 3-4, positioned horizontally.

Equal (3): Every part on this inexperienced house have to be equal to three. The reply is 6-3, positioned vertically; 3-1, positioned horizontally; 3-4, positioned horizontally; 3-3, positioned horizontally.

Not Equal: Every part on this house have to be completely different. The reply is 2-5, positioned horizontally; 0-5, positioned vertically; 1-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (6): Every part on this house should add as much as 6. The reply is 1-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (20): Every part on this house should add as much as 20. The reply is 0-5, positioned vertically; 5-5, positioned horizontally; 5-6, positioned vertically.

Higher Than (3): Every part on this house have to be larger than 3. The reply is 4-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (12): Every part on this house should add as much as 12. The reply is 4-6, positioned vertically; 5-6, positioned vertically.

Not Equal: Every part on this house have to be completely different. The reply is 4-2, positioned horizontally; 1-5, positioned horizontally.

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