This archived NYT Pips guide is for Sunday, March 29, 2026. Start with spoiler-light hints for the Easy, Medium, and Hard boards, then open the matching walkthrough when you want the full domino placements. Pips asks you to place every tile while meeting the rule in each color-coded region; a domino may cross between regions, so both its orientation and the pips assigned to each zone matter.
How to use these Pips hints
The hints below are paraphrased from the dated Technobezz walkthrough, not official NYT hints. In Pips, regions may require equal values, different values, a value above or below a threshold, an exact pip total, or no particular restriction. Tiles can be rotated.
EnergyPips independently lists the March 29 puzzle set and its tile counts: five dominoes on Easy, seven on Medium, and 14 on Hard. Those are details of these three boards, not general statistics about Pips. See its March 29, 2026 answer page.
Easy
- Begin with the purple equal-value region: its pips must match.
- Then use the teal region’s exact total of five.
Medium
- Start with the pink region, where the value must be less than four.
- Use the all-equal and greater-than-one conditions to narrow the remaining placements.
Hard
- Start with the equal-value regions and their doubles.
- Several zones have exact totals, including 10, 1, and 0; another requires a value greater than 10.
- Pay attention to orientation when a domino crosses between regions.
Full solutions: spoilers for all three boards
Spoiler warning: The lists below reveal every domino placement. Each item gives the tile values, orientation, and region or regions it occupies. The walkthroughs follow the placements reported by Technobezz.
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Easy solution
- Place the 3/3 domino horizontally in the purple equal-value zone.
- Place the 3/6 domino horizontally across the purple equal-value zone and pink greater-than-four zone.
- Place the 4/0 domino horizontally in the teal exact-five zone.
- Place the 5/5 domino horizontally across the teal exact-five and orange exact-five zones.
- Place the 3/0 domino horizontally across the navy exact-three and orange exact-five zones.
Medium solution
- Place 1/6 horizontally in the purple greater-than-one zone.
- Place 0/2 horizontally across the pink less-than-four and teal exact-four zones.
- Place 3/1 vertically in the navy exact-four zone.
- Place 4/1 horizontally across the green exact-four and purple exact-three zones.
- Place 2/2 vertically across the teal exact-four and purple exact-three zones.
- Place 0/0 vertically across the orange less-than-four and purple exact-three zones.
- Place 4/4 vertically in the pink equal-value zone.
Hard solution
- Place 5/5 horizontally in the purple equal-value zone.
- Place 5/6 horizontally across the purple and pink equal-value zones.
- Place 6/6 horizontally across the pink equal-value and teal exact-ten zones.
- Place 4/0 vertically across the teal exact-ten and navy exact-zero zones.
- Place 1/4 vertically in the orange exact-one zone.
- Place 4/5 vertically in the teal greater-than-ten zone.
- Place 6/1 horizontally across the teal greater-than-ten and orange exact-one zones.
- Place 5/2 vertically across the purple equal-value and green equal-value zones.
- Place 2/2 vertically in the green equal-value zone.
- Place 4/6 vertically in the purple exact-ten zone.
- Place 1/0 horizontally across the navy exact-one and green equal-value zones.
- Place 0/0 horizontally in the green equal-value zone.
- Place 2/0 vertically across the pink exact-ten and green equal-value zones.
- Place 4/4 vertically in the pink exact-ten zone.
About these answer guides
Technobezz provides the named tile-by-tile placements and hints; EnergyPips gives an independent answer listing and region-value breakdown. EnergyPips states that it is not affiliated with or endorsed by The New York Times. These are third-party solution guides, not NYT instructions.
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