NYT Pips hints, answers for August 2, 2026

The New York Times’ puzzle guide covers Pips, a single-player dominoes-style game released in August 2025 and now offering partial “hints” for players stuck across difficulty levels. The article explains that tiles connect vertically or horizontally, but unlike classic dominoes, the rules depend on color-coded spaces rather than matching ends. For instance, a space marked with a single number requires the total of pips on each tile side in that space to equal the provided figure. It also notes that only half a tile may fall inside a coded area. Examples are given for Number, Equal, Not Equal, Less than and Greater than conditions. It then lists early difficulty hints and answers for August 2, including placements for “Greater Than (1),” “Number (1)” and “Number (6).”