NYT Pips hints, solutions for January 25, 2026

Welcome to your information to Pips, the newest recreation within the New York Instances catalogue.

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

At present, when you’re caught, the sport solely provides to disclose your complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the following problem stage and begin over. Nonetheless, we’ve got you coated! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that may function hints in an effort to discover your means by way of every problem stage.

Find out how to play Pips

If you happen to’ve ever performed dominoes, you will have a passing familiarity for a 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 primary distinction between a standard recreation of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded situations you must tackle. The touching tiles do not essentially need to match.

The situations you must meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it supplies a single quantity, each aspect of a tile in that house should add as much as the quantity supplied. It’s potential – and customary – for less than half a tile to be inside a color-coded house.

Listed here are widespread examples you will 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 totally totally different variety of pips.

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

• Larger 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 are not any situations on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Simple problem hints, solutions for Jan. 26 Pips

Much less Than (3): All the pieces on this house have to be lower than 3. The reply is 2-5, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (2): All the pieces on this house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 5-1, positioned horizontally.

Larger Than (4): All the pieces on this house have to be larger than 4. The reply is 5-4, positioned vertically.

Larger Than (5): All the pieces on this house have to be larger than 5. The reply is 5-6, positioned horizontally.

Larger Than (3): All the pieces on this house have to be larger than 3. The reply is 5-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (30): All the pieces on this house should add as much as 30. The reply is 2-5, positioned horizontally; 5-1, positioned horizontally; 5-5, positioned vertically; 5-6, positioned horizontally; 5-3, positioned horizontally.

Medium problem hints, solutions for Jan. 26 Pips

Equal (2): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to 2. The reply is 2-2, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (4): All the pieces on this house have to be lower than 4. The reply is 0-2, positioned vertically.

Equal (0): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to 0. The reply is 0-6, positioned horizontally; 5-0, positioned horizontally.

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

Equal (2): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to 2. The reply is 0-2, positioned vertically; 2-6, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (10): All the pieces on this purple house should add as much as 10. The reply is 4-4, positioned vertically; 2-6, positioned horizontally.

Onerous problem hints, solutions for Jan. 26 Pips

Larger Than (4): All the pieces on this house have to be larger than 4. The reply is 6-6, positioned horizontally.

Equal (6): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to six. The reply is 6-6, positioned horizontally; 6-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (5): All the pieces on this purple house should add as much as 5. The reply is 6-1, positioned horizontally; 4-4, positioned vertically.

Not Equal: All the pieces on this house have to be totally different. The reply is 4-4, positioned vertically; 2-2, positioned horizontally; 3-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (6): All the pieces on this purple house should add as much as 6. The reply is 2-2, positioned horizontally; 5-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (9): All the pieces on this purple house should add as much as 9. The reply is 5-4, positioned horizontally; 1-4, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (3): All the pieces on this house have to be lower than 3. The reply is 1-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (9): All the pieces on this purple house should add as much as 9. The reply is 3-3, positioned horizontally; 6-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (4): All the pieces on this purple house should add as much as 4. The reply is 6-4, positioned horizontally; 0-1, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (2): All the pieces on this house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 0-1, positioned horizontally.

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