NYT Pips hints, solutions for December 14

Welcome to your information to Pips, the most recent sport 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 would turn into your subsequent every day gaming behavior.

Presently, in case you’re caught, the sport solely provides to disclose your complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the following issue stage and begin over. Nonetheless, we’ve you coated! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that may function hints to be able to discover your means by way of every issue stage.

The way to play Pips

When you’ve ever performed dominoes, you will 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 primary distinction between a standard sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances you need to tackle. The touching tiles do not essentially must match.

The circumstances you need to meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it offers a single quantity, each facet of a tile in that house should add as much as the quantity supplied. It’s doable – 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 will need to 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.

• 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 circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Simple issue hints, solutions for Dec. 14 Pips

Equal (3): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-3, positioned vertically; 3-6, positioned horizontally.

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

Larger Than (5): All the pieces on this house have to be higher than 5. The reply is 4-6, positioned vertically.

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

Medium issue hints, solutions for Dec. 14 Pips

Quantity (11): All the pieces on this house should add as much as 11. The reply is 4-3, positioned horizontally; 3-2, positioned vertically; 4-1, positioned horizontally.

Equal (3): All the pieces on this purple house have to be equal to three. The reply is 4-3, positioned horizontally; 3-1, positioned horizontally.

Equal (1): All the pieces on this gentle blue house have to be equal to 1. The reply is 3-1, positioned horizontally; 4-1, positioned horizontally; 1-2, positioned vertically.

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

Quantity (3): All the pieces on this house should add as much as 3. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically; 1-0, positioned horizontally.

Exhausting issue hints, solutions for Dec. 14 Pips

Much less Than (2): All the pieces on this purple house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 1-3, positioned vertically.

Much less Than (2): All the pieces on this purple house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 0-6, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (10): All the pieces on this house should add as much as 10. The reply is 0-6, positioned horizontally; 4-3, positioned vertically.

Quantity (12): All the pieces on this purple house should add as much as 12. The reply is 6-4, positioned vertically; 6-3, positioned horizontally.

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

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

Quantity (2): All the pieces on this inexperienced house should add as much as 2. The reply is 4-3, positioned vertically.

Larger Than (2): All the pieces on this purple house have to be higher than 2. The reply is 4-3, positioned vertically.

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

Quantity (4): All the pieces on this gentle blue house should add as much as 4. The reply is 0-4, positioned horizontally; 5-3, positioned horizontally; 1-0, positioned vertically.

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

Equal (4): All the pieces on this darkish blue house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 6-4, positioned vertically; 4-4, positioned horizontally; 4-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (12): All the pieces on this inexperienced house should add as much as 12. The reply is 1-6, positioned vertically; 6-2, positioned vertically.

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

Equal (3): All the pieces on this yellow house have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-3, positioned vertically.

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

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