About the game
NYT Pips: The New York Times Domino Game
Pips is a daily logic puzzle from The New York Times Games. You place a set of dominoes on a small board so that the numbers satisfy the rule written on each coloured region.
What is Pips?
Pips joined the New York Times Games line-up in August 2025, next to Wordle, Connections, Strands and the Mini crossword. Unlike those, it uses no words at all. Each puzzle gives you a board and a handful of dominoes. Regions of the board carry rules such as “adds up to 10”, “all equal” or “greater than 4”, and you have to find the arrangement that makes every rule true.
The name comes from the dots on a domino, which are called pips. See what “pips” means for the background.
Where to play the Pips game
- On the web: at nytimes.com/games/pips.
- In the app: Pips is inside the NYT Games app for iPhone and Android. There is no separate Pips app.
The official daily puzzles are only available from The New York Times. This site does not host them. We publish hints and answers, plus our own unlimited practice puzzles.
How many Pips puzzles are there each day?
Three: Easy, Medium and Hard. They are separate boards, not three stages of one puzzle, so you can play any of them on its own. Hard is the one most people look up, which is why it has its own hard Pips hint page.
When does Pips reset?
New puzzles appear at midnight in your local time zone. That means players in Australia or Asia see a given day's puzzle many hours before players in North America. Our hints page switches at midnight Eastern Time and keeps the previous seven days available.
How is Pips different from other NYT games?
| Game | What you do |
|---|---|
| Pips | Place dominoes so number rules hold. Pure logic, no vocabulary. |
| Wordle | Guess a five-letter word in six tries. |
| Connections | Sort sixteen words into four hidden groups. |
| Strands | Find themed words in a letter grid. |
| Sudoku | Fill a grid so rows, columns and boxes hold 1 to 9. |
If you like Sudoku or Kakuro, Pips will feel familiar: every step can be reasoned out, and a wrong placement shows up quickly.