NYT Pips hints, solutions for December 26

Merry Christmas and Completely happy Holidays! Welcome to your information to Pips, the newest recreation within the New York Instances catalogue.

Launched in August 2025, the Pips places a novel spin on dominoes, making a enjoyable single-player expertise that would turn out to be your subsequent every day gaming behavior.

At present, when you’re caught, the sport solely affords to disclose your complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the following issue degree and begin over. Nevertheless, we have now you lined! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that may function hints so as to discover your method by every issue degree.

Tips on how to play Pips

In the event you’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 recreation of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded situations you must tackle. The touching tiles do not essentially must match.

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

Listed below are widespread 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 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 aren’t any situations on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Straightforward issue hints, solutions for Dec. 26 Pips

Equal (4): Every thing on this inexperienced house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 2-4, positioned horizontally; 4-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (3): Every thing on this house should add as much as 3. The reply is 4-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (11): Every thing on this house should add as much as 11. The reply is 6-6, positioned horizontally; 5-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (3): Every thing on this orange house should add as much as 3. The reply is 5-1, positioned horizontally; 2-0, positioned horizontally.

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

Medium issue hints, solutions for Dec. 26 Pips

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

Equal (2): Every thing on this purple house have to be equal to 2. The reply is 3-2, positioned horizontally; 2-4, positioned vertically; 2-2, positioned horizontally.

Not Equal: Every thing on this house have to be totally different. The reply is 4-5, positioned horizontally; 0-1, positioned vertically; 2-2, positioned horizontally; 0-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (6): Every thing on this house should add as much as 6. The reply is 0-6, positioned vertically.

Arduous issue hints, solutions for Dec. 26 Pips

Quantity (11): Every thing on this house should add as much as 11. The reply is 5-5, positioned horizontally; 1-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (6): Every thing on this house should add as much as 6. The reply is 6-3, positioned horizontally.

Equal (2): Every thing on this purple house have to be equal to 2. The reply is 1-2, positioned horizontally; 3-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (5): Every thing on this house should add as much as 5. The reply is 5-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (2): Every thing on this house should add as much as 2. The reply is 1-3, positioned horizontally; 1-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (5): Every thing on this house should add as much as 5. The reply is 5-1, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): Every thing on this orange house have to be equal to three. The reply is 6-3, positioned horizontally; 3-2, positioned horizontally; 5-3, positioned horizontally; 1-3, positioned horizontally; 3-3, positioned vertically; 3-0, positioned horizontally.

Equal (1): Every thing on this purple house have to be equal to 1. The reply is 5-1, positioned vertically; 1-0, positioned horizontally.

Equal (0): Every thing on this inexperienced house have to be equal to 0. The reply is 3-0, positioned horizontally; 0-0, positioned vertically; 1-0, positioned horizontally.

Larger Than (10): Every thing on this house have to be better than 10. The reply is 6-6, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (4): Every thing on this house have to be lower than 4. The reply is 0-6, positioned vertically.

Larger Than (11): Every thing on this house have to be better than 11. The reply is 0-6, positioned vertically; 6-4, positioned horizontally.

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