Pips

Pips is the New York Times’ domino logic puzzle. Arrange the available dominoes to fill a board while satisfying the condition attached to every coloured region.

1. Choose Easy, Medium or Hard.
2. Rotate and drag dominoes onto the board.
3. Satisfy every region condition, then adjust any incorrect placement until the board is complete.

It offers the tactile satisfaction of dominoes with a forgiving logic-puzzle loop: every wrong arrangement is a prompt to reason again, not a failed run.

A region can require equal, unequal, greater-than or less-than values, or a specified total. An incorrect arrangement is not a loss: the game reports it as incorrect and lets you continue rearranging. A timed finish can add a cookie to the result.

Easy, Medium and Hard

Three daily puzzles are published at the three difficulty levels.

• Start with a region that has only one plausible domino or value combination.
• Use doubles and unusual totals as anchors before testing more flexible regions.