For the Tuesday, March 31, 2026 NYT Pips puzzle, start with the hints below and stop before the spoiler section if you want to solve it yourself. The set has Easy, Medium, and Hard boards. The solution details here are reported by date-specific secondary guides; the official NYT game page was not available for direct verification.
How to use the hints
Pips is a digital domino-placement puzzle: place every tile in the grid so that each colored region meets its clue. Exact-number clues require the pips in that region to add up to the number shown; equal-value and all-different clues impose separate rules. A tile can cross a boundary, so its two halves may affect different regions. Check every clue touched by a placement.
The guides describe three tiers—Easy, Medium, and Hard—with larger boards and more interacting constraints at the harder end. EnergyPips reports an 8-square Easy board and a 30-square Hard board; its description of the Hard board counts 18 regions and says it has no unconstrained regions or doubles.
Hints for March 31
Easy
Begin with the single-cell region marked 0. Use that placement to narrow the remaining dominoes, then check that the other exact-sum regions still work. EnergyPips suggests this as the opening deduction.
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Medium
Start with the = 2 region: its two cells must each contain 1. A 1–1 double is a useful candidate for an all-equal region, but confirm that the tile also fits the neighboring constraints before committing.
Hard
Look first at the Pink 10 region. Forbes reports that it contains five cells; five 2s fill it exactly because 5 × 2 = 10. This is an opening deduction, not a complete placement map—the remaining tiles still need to satisfy every region they touch.
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Spoilers: reported solutions and tile sets
The following tile pairs are transcribed from the guides’ text. Their visible summaries do not agree in every region assignment, and the accessible text does not provide a dependable complete spatial map for all three boards. Treat these as reported tile-set information rather than a substitute for checking the board image.
Easy
EnergyPips lists four tiles: 2–0, 5–1, 2–2, and 3–5. Mashable/Yahoo’s summary describes a 0–2 tile for the zero region, a 5–3 tile for a five region, 1–5 and 0–2 tiles across a seven region, and a 2–2 tile for a four region. Because those summaries do not fully align, do not combine their region instructions as though they were one verified placement sequence.
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Medium
EnergyPips lists seven tiles: 1–5, 3–6, 0–5, 1–1, 5–4, 2–1, and 3–5. Mashable/Yahoo reports 1–1, 5–1, 1–2, 5–4, 3–6, 0–5, and 3–5 across its regions. These tile descriptions differ; use one guide’s board diagram and placement account together rather than mixing them.
Hard
EnergyPips and Forbes each publish a Hard-board walkthrough, but the available text does not establish every cell’s coordinates reliably. Forbes’s first deduction is to allocate five 2-valued halves to the five-cell Pink 10 region; follow its board diagram for the remaining placements rather than inferring coordinates from the text alone.
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Sources and attribution
- EnergyPips’ March 31, 2026 guide provides tier hints, board descriptions, tile lists, and attributes the set’s construction to Ian Livengood.
- Mashable via Yahoo Tech’s March 31, 2026 guide includes an explanation of the game and tile-answer snippets.
- Forbes’ March 30, 2026 walkthrough by Erik Kain explains the Hard-board Pink 10 deduction and continues with a walkthrough.
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