NYT Pips hints, solutions for December 4

Welcome to your information to Pips, the most recent sport within the New York Instances catalogue.

Launched in August 2025, the Pips places a novel spin on dominoes, making a enjoyable single-player expertise that might turn out to be your subsequent every day gaming behavior.

At present, for those who’re caught, the sport solely gives to disclose the whole puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent issue degree and begin over. Nonetheless, we’ve got you coated! Under are piecemeal solutions that may function hints so that you could discover your method by every issue degree.

Find out how to play Pips

In the event 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 conventional sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances it’s important to tackle. The touching tiles do not essentially must match.

The circumstances it’s important to meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it supplies a single quantity, each aspect of a tile in that area should add as much as the quantity supplied. It’s attainable – and customary – for less than half a tile to be inside a color-coded area.

Listed below are widespread examples you will run into throughout the issue ranges:

• Quantity: All of the pips on this area should add as much as the quantity.

• Equal: Each domino half on this area have to be the identical variety of pips.

• Not Equal: Each domino half on this area should have a very totally different variety of pips.

• Lower than: Each domino half on this area should add as much as lower than the quantity.

• Larger than: Each domino half on this area should add as much as greater than the quantity.

If an space doesn’t have any coloration coding, it means there are not any circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Simple issue hints, solutions for Dec. 4 Pips

Quantity (1): The whole lot on this area should add to 1. The reply is 1-5, positioned horizontally.

Equal (5): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to five. The reply is 1-5, positioned horizontally; 3-5, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (11): The whole lot on this area should add to 11. The reply is 3-5, positioned horizontally; 4-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (12): The whole lot on this area should add to 12. The reply is 6-6, positioned vertically.

Equal (0): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to 0. The reply is 0-0, positioned horizontally.

Medium issue hints, solutions for Dec. 4 Pips

Quantity (6): The whole lot on this purple area should add to six. The reply is 3-6, positioned vertically; 3-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (6): The whole lot on this pink area should add to 1. The reply is 1-5, positioned horizontally.

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Quantity (5): The whole lot on this area should add to five. The reply is 6-5, positioned horizontally.

Equal (0): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to 0. The reply is 0-3, positioned horizontally; 0-5, positioned horizontally; 5-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (5): The whole lot on this inexperienced area should add to five. The reply is 2-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (5): The whole lot on this purple area should add to five. The reply is 1-5, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (5): The whole lot on this area should add to five. The reply is 0-3, positioned horizontally; 2-5, positioned vertically.

Larger Than (3): The whole lot on this area have to be larger than 3. The reply is 1-4, positioned vertically.

Onerous issue hints, solutions for Dec. 4 Pips

Quantity (1): The whole lot on this area should add to 1. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically; 0-4, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-5, positioned horizontally; 3-4, positioned horizontally; 3-3, positioned vertically.

Larger Than (4): The whole lot on this area have to be larger than 4. The reply is 3-5, positioned horizontally.

Larger Than (1): The whole lot on this area have to be larger than 1. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to 4. The reply is 0-4, positioned vertically; 4-4, positioned vertically.

Larger Than (3): The whole lot on this area have to be larger than 3. The reply is 3-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (1): The whole lot on this area should add to 1. The reply is 1-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (0): The whole lot on this area should add to 0. The reply is 0-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (0): The whole lot on this yellow area should add to 0. The reply is 1-0, positioned vertically; 0-5, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (11): The whole lot on this area should add to 11. The reply is 0-5, positioned horizontally; 6-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (4): The whole lot on this area should add to 4. The reply is 2-2, positioned horizontally; 0-6, positioned horizontally.

Not equal: The whole lot on this area have to be totally different. The reply is 4-2, positioned horizontally; 0-0, positioned vertically; 3-3, positioned vertically; 1-1 positioned horizontally; 6-4, positioned horizontally.

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