NYT Pips #444 for Wednesday, November 4, 2026: the Easy puzzle takes 5 dominoes, the Medium 7 and the Hard 16, and the Hard puzzle has 28 regions. Each solution stays hidden above until you ask.
How Pips works
Pips is a domino puzzle. Each day gives you a board of squares, a set of dominoes, and three levels: Easy, Medium and Hard. Place every domino on two touching squares so that every rule on the board holds. All the dominoes are used, and every square is covered.
The squares are grouped in regions, each outlined on the board. A number is the total of the pips in that region. A “>” or “<” means the total is greater or less than the number. An “=” means every square in the region shows the same number of pips, and a “≠” means no two squares do. A region with no mark has no rule.
How to use this page
Each level gives its solution as text: for each domino, the pips on it and the two squares it covers, counting rows from the top and columns from the left. Choose Show the next domino to see one, starting at the top left, and choose it again for the next. If you only want the answer, choose Show the solution. Start over hides the dominoes again, so you can try for yourself.
The solutions are the game’s own. If your dominoes break a rule, one of them is in the wrong place.
Solving tips
Start with the tightest rules. A single square with a total can only take one number, and a region that must total zero takes only blanks. A region that must total the most it can hold takes sixes. Then look for the dominoes that fit only one way, such as a double that has to lie across two squares that must match. Each domino you place leaves a shorter list and fewer places for the rest.