For Friday, December 26, 2025, the available text walkthrough gives the full placement sequence for the NYT Pips Hard board. It uses 15 dominoes. Easy and Medium solutions are shown as screenshots in the cited guide, but their complete placements are not available in its retrieved text, so this page does not guess at them.
How to read the December 26 Pips board
Pips is a domino-placement puzzle: fill the grid with the available dominoes while satisfying the condition attached to each colored region. A domino can cross a region boundary, so check each half against the rule for the cell it occupies. Depending on the board, conditions may require equal values, a threshold, an exact total, or impose no restriction; some puzzles may have more than one valid solution.
The walkthrough below follows the Hard board’s region labels and placement order as reported by Forbes. A pair such as 0/3 means a domino with one blank end and one end showing three pips. The direction names which region receives each half.
Hard board answers and placement walkthrough
The Forbes text walkthrough identifies 15 dominoes and begins with the Green equality cells. Follow the sequence against the board image, since directions such as “first free tile” depend on the pictured layout.
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Place 0/0 in the two Green equality cells on the right.
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Place 0/3 from Green into Orange.
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Place 0/1 from Green into Purple.
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Place 1/5 from Purple into the Dark Blue 5 cell.
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Place 3/3 in the next two Orange equality cells.
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Place 1/4 from Purple 2 into the first free tile.
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Place 1/3 from Purple 2 into Orange.
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Place 5/3 from the second Dark Blue 5 tile into Orange.
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Place 6/3 from the Blue 6 tile into Orange.
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Place 3/2 from Orange into Pink equality.
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Place 5/5 in the first two cells of Purple 11.
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Place 1/2 from Purple 11 into Pink 2.
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Place 6/6 in Green greater than 10.
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Place 0/6 from Pink less than 4 into Blue greater than 11.
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Place 6/4 from Blue greater than 10 into the last open tile.
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In the guide, Erik Kain says the Green equality region initially seemed compatible with 5s, 6s, or blanks, and that he settled on blanks. That is his account of solving this board, not a separate verification of the solution.
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The Forbes guide presents Easy and Medium solutions as images rather than complete text placements. The December 26 Pips Hint page also does not supply full Easy and Medium placements in its retrieved text. Because the available text is incomplete, no tile-by-tile answer for those boards can be reliably reproduced here. The Forbes page includes the board images: NYT Pips Today: Hints, Answers And Full Solution For Friday December 26.
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Sources for this dated puzzle
- Forbes, “NYT Pips Today: Hints, Answers And Full Solution For Friday December 26” by Erik Kain, published and updated December 25–26, 2025; includes the Hard text walkthrough and Easy and Medium board images.
- Pips Hint, “NYT Pips Hints and Answers for Dec 26, 2025”, dated December 26, 2025; corroborates the date and difficulty-board coverage.
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