NYT Pips hints and answers for October 8, 2026

The New York Times published a guide on October 8, 2026, providing hints and full answers for its puzzle game Pips, which was released in August 2025. The guide offers piecemeal solutions for the Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels, helping players who are stuck without revealing the entire puzzle at once. Pips is a single-player dominoes-style game where tiles are placed vertically or horizontally and connect, but unlike traditional dominoes, color-coded spaces impose conditions. These conditions include requirements that pips in a space add up to a specific number, be equal, not equal, or be less than or greater than a given value, with uncoded areas having no restrictions. The guide lists specific tile placements for each difficulty, such as placing 5-5 vertically for a "Greater Than (4)" space on Easy, and numerous "Number" solutions on Hard, including 4-0 vertically for a sum of 4 and 0-0 horizontally for a sum of 0. It also directs readers to Mashable's games hub for other puzzles like Mahjong and Sudoku.