NYT Pips hints, solutions for December 28

Merry Christmas and Glad Holidays! Welcome to your information to Pips, the most recent sport 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 into your subsequent every day gaming behavior.

Presently, if you happen to’re caught, the sport solely affords to disclose your entire puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the following issue degree and begin over. Nonetheless, now we have you coated! Under are piecemeal solutions that may function hints as a way to discover your manner by every issue degree.

Tips on how to play Pips

In the event you’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 sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances it’s a must to tackle. The touching tiles do not essentially need to match.

The circumstances it’s a must to meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it supplies a single quantity, each facet 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 below are frequent 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 should be the identical variety of pips.

• Not Equal: Each domino half on this house should have a very totally 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 are not any circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Straightforward issue hints, solutions for Dec. 28 Pips

Quantity (5): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 5. The reply is 5-6, positioned horizontally.

Equal (6): The whole lot on this purple house should be equal to six. The reply is 5-6, positioned horizontally; 6-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): The whole lot on this mild blue house should be equal to three. The reply is 6-3, positioned vertically; 5-3, positioned horizontally; 3-4, positioned vertically.

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

Equal (2): The whole lot on this house should be equal to 2. The reply is 2-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (4): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 4. The reply is 3-4, positioned vertically.

Medium issue hints, solutions for Dec. 28 Pips

Higher Than (3): The whole lot on this house should be larger than 3. The reply is 6-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (0): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 0. The reply is 0-3, positioned horizontally.

Not Equal: The whole lot on this house should be totally different. The reply is 1-1, positioned horizontally; 6-2, positioned vertically; 0-3, positioned horizontally; 0-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (6): The whole lot on this or house should add as much as 6. The reply is 1-3, positioned horizontally; 3-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (8): The whole lot on this house should add as much as 8. The reply is 2-2, positioned horizontally; 0-2, positioned horizontally; 3-2, positioned horizontally.

Onerous issue hints, solutions for Dec. 28 Pips

Higher Than (4): The whole lot on this house should be larger than 4. The reply is 4-5, positioned horizontally.

Equal (1): The whole lot on this orange house should be equal to 1. The reply is 1-1, positioned vertically; 6-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (15): The whole lot on this purple house should add as much as 15. The reply is 5-6, positioned vertically; 4-5, positioned horizontally; 6-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (15): The whole lot on this orange house should add as much as 15. The reply is 5-6, positioned vertically; 4-0, positioned vertically; 5-2, positioned vertically.

Equal (0): The whole lot on this inexperienced house should be equal to 0. The reply is 4-0, positioned vertically; 0-5, positioned horizontally; 0-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (15): The whole lot on this inexperienced house should add as much as 15. The reply is 0-5, positioned horizontally; 6-2, positioned horizontally; 4-4, positioned horizontally.

Higher Than (3): The whole lot on this house should be larger than 3. The reply is 4-4, positioned horizontally.

Equal (2): The whole lot on this house should be equal to 2. The reply is 0-2, positioned vertically; 4-2, positioned vertically; 2-2, positioned horizontally.

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