New York Times' Pips game gets detailed hint guides for early July 2026 puzzles

The New York Times released its digital puzzle game Pips in August 2025. Pips adapts dominoes into a single‑player experience where tiles must satisfy colour‑coded numeric conditions such as “Number”, “Equal”, “Less Than” or “Greater Than”. The game’s difficulty levels are split into Easy, Medium and Hard, each presenting a grid of spaces with specific rules.

Guides published on July 3 and July 4, 2026 list the exact tile placements that meet each condition, effectively giving players the solutions for that day's puzzles. For example, a “Number (3)” space is solved with a vertical 1‑2 tile, while an “Equal (4)” space can be solved with a horizontal 4‑5 tile. The articles walk readers through every puzzle on those dates, covering both the easy and hard sections.

These hint pages are intended to help players progress when they become stuck, as the game otherwise forces users to reveal the entire puzzle and start a new level.