Pips Answers Archive

TodayHint archives all three NYT Pips boards — easy, medium and hard — once they have finished being the current ones anywhere on Earth, so each entry below ships in full: every domino, every region rule and the complete walkthrough for all three difficulties. Each date opens that day's complete write-up, built from the boards' own domino trays and region constraints rather than a guess at how they were solved.

A date only earns a page here once its boards have stopped being "the current puzzle" in every time zone on the planet — roughly a day and a half after the print date — so nothing here is speculation about an unpublished board. Once a page exists it never changes: the dominoes, the region rules and the recap are exactly what shipped that day. A date missing from the list below either still has boards current somewhere in the world or hasn't finished processing yet — check back within a day or two.

30 days' boards archived so far, from Thursday, July 9, 2026 through Friday, August 7, 2026. Pick a date for its dominoes, region rules and full walkthroughs.

August 2026

July 2026

Solving the boards that are live right now? The current Pips hints and answers page covers the same three difficulties, updated for whichever boards are current. New to the game? How to play Pips covers the placement rules, the five region-constraint types and the counting tricks that make the hard board tractable.

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