NYT Pips Hints and Answers for Sunday, Oct. 25, 2026: Easy, Medium and Hard, Plus Saturday's Solutions

Sunday's boards are not live yet. Pips goes live at midnight in your time zone. Hints and every domino placement for Oct. 25 go here as soon as the puzzles are out. Saturday's full solutions are below.

Sunday’s Pips from The New York Times (NYT), for Oct. 25, 2026, goes live at midnight in your time zone, and we add hints and every domino placement for Easy, Medium and Hard here once it is live. Saturday’s boards were made by Ian Livengood (Easy) and Rodolfo Kurchan (Medium and Hard), and their solutions are below, taken from the puzzle data the Times publishes for the game and checked against each region’s rule.

How Pips works

Pips is a domino logic puzzle the Times launched on Aug. 18, 2025, its first original logic game. You place every domino on the board so that each colored region meets its condition, printed at the region’s corner:

• A number: the pips in the region add up to it.
• = (equal): every half-domino in the region shows the same value.
• ≠ (not equal): every half shows a different value.
• > or <: the region’s total is more or less than the number.
• No condition: any value fits.

There are three boards a day, Easy, Medium and Hard. When every domino is placed and every condition holds, the game shows a congratulations page.

Solving tips

Start with the most restrictive region. A one-cell region that must add up to 0 can only take a blank half, and a two-cell region that adds up to 12 needs the 6-6 double. Regions marked = narrow fast once one value is known. On the Hard board, count how often each number appears across the dominoes; a value with only one or two copies left decides where its domino can go.

How to read the solutions

Rows are numbered from the top and columns from the left, so R1C1 is the top-left cell and R2C5 is the second row, fifth column. Each line gives a domino and the value on each of its two cells.

More of Sunday’s games: Spelling Bee hints, Connections hints and Wordle hints. Log your solve times on our printable weekly calendar or the October 2026 calendar.

Saturday’s Pips answers, Oct. 24, 2026 (spoilers)

Stop here if you are still solving Saturday’s boards.

Easy, by Ian Livengood. Dominoes 6-3, 2-2, 3-2, 0-6 and 5-4. Regions: R1C4 and R1C5 add up to 7; R2C5 and R3C5 are equal; R3C1 and R3C2 add up to 4; R4C4 and R4C5 add up to 2; R1C3 and R4C3 take any value.

• 6-3: R2C5 = 6, R1C5 = 3
• 2-2: R3C1 = 2, R3C2 = 2
• 3-2: R4C3 = 3, R4C4 = 2
• 0-6: R4C5 = 0, R3C5 = 6
• 5-4: R1C3 = 5, R1C4 = 4

Medium, by Rodolfo Kurchan. Dominoes 5-3, 3-0, 5-5, 0-0, 2-2, 4-1 and 3-6. Regions: R1C1 and R1C2 add up to 6; R1C3, R1C4 and R2C3 are all different; R2C1 and R3C1 add up to more than 9; R2C2 is more than 4; R3C2 and R4C2 add up to 6; R3C3 and R4C3 add up to 0; R3C4 and R4C4 are equal.

• 5-3: R1C4 = 5, R1C3 = 3
• 3-0: R4C2 = 3, R4C3 = 0
• 5-5: R1C2 = 5, R2C2 = 5
• 0-0: R2C3 = 0, R3C3 = 0
• 2-2: R3C4 = 2, R4C4 = 2
• 4-1: R2C1 = 4, R1C1 = 1
• 3-6: R3C2 = 3, R3C1 = 6

Hard, by Rodolfo Kurchan. Sixteen dominoes on a six-row board where nearly every cell is its own region with a single target.

• 0-1: R5C2 = 0, R6C2 = 1
• 0-2: R3C4 = 0, R4C4 = 2
• 0-3: R5C6 = 0, R4C6 = 3
• 0-4: R1C3 = 0, R1C2 = 4
• 0-5: R5C3 = 0, R6C3 = 5
• 1-2: R3C1 = 1, R2C1 = 2
• 1-3: R4C1 = 1, R5C1 = 3
• 1-4: R4C3 = 1, R3C3 = 4
• 1-5: R1C4 = 1, R2C4 = 5
• 2-3: R2C5 = 2, R1C5 = 3
• 2-4: R4C2 = 2, R3C2 = 4
• 2-5: R5C4 = 2, R5C5 = 5
• 3-4: R2C6 = 3, R3C6 = 4
• 3-5: R3C5 = 3, R4C5 = 5
• 4-5: R6C4 = 4, R6C5 = 5
• 3-6: R2C3 = 3, R2C2 = 6

Only two cells on Saturday’s Hard board had no condition, R2C2 and R3C4; they ended up holding the board’s only 6 and a blank.