Here are the NYT Pips solutions for Friday, December 5, 2025, organized by Easy, Medium and Hard. Each entry gives the domino values and whether to place it horizontally or vertically; the answer guide does not provide cell-by-cell coordinates.
How to use these Pips answers
Pips is a single-player, domino-like puzzle played on a grid of colored regions. Use every supplied domino, orient and place the pieces, and satisfy each region’s condition. Conditions can require equal or unequal values, a value below or above a threshold, an exact total, or allow an unrestricted placement. The game offers separate Easy, Medium and Hard boards.
Read each pair below as the two pip values on one domino. “Horizontal” and “vertical” indicate its orientation on the board. The listed placements are solution references rather than a coordinate map.
Easy answers
- Number 2: 2–1, horizontal.
- Less Than 2: 0–4 and 2–1, both horizontal.
- Number 6: 0–4 and 2–3, both horizontal.
- Number 0: 0–0, vertical.
Medium answers
- Number 0: 0–2, horizontal.
- Not Equal: 0–2 horizontal; 3–1 vertical; 5–6 vertical; 0–4 horizontal.
- Less Than 2: 2–1, horizontal.
- Number 4: 0–4, horizontal.
- Equal 2: 5–2 and 2–2, both horizontal.
- Number 6: 5–6, vertical.
Hard answers
- Equal 3 (purple): 3–4 horizontal; 3–3 vertical; 3–2 horizontal; 3–1 vertical.
- Equal 4 (red): 3–4 and 4–4, both horizontal.
- Equal 2 (light blue): 1–5 horizontal; 1–6 vertical.
- Not Equal: 1–5 horizontal; 3–5 vertical.
- Number 0 (dark blue): 0–2, vertical.
- Equal 2 (green): 3–2 horizontal; 0–2 vertical.
- Number 24 (purple): 1–6 vertical; 6–6 horizontal; 6–4 vertical.
- Less Than 5: 3–1, vertical.
Hard-board solving order
For a deduction-based route, Forbes’ walkthrough starts with the only blank-sided domino in the dark-blue zero cell, then works through connected equal-value regions. It next places the 6–6, 6–4, 6–1, 1–5 and 3–5 dominoes in the remaining linked regions. The cited walkthrough does not establish that this is the only possible solution; its author explicitly presents uniqueness as a guess.
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