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Need help with the Wednesday, December 3, 2025, NYT Pips puzzle? Start with the spoiler-light hints below, then open the Easy, Medium, or Hard placements if you want the reported solutions. The placements are from a date-specific answer guide; they have not been independently verified here.
How to solve the December 3 Pips puzzle
Pips is a domino-based logic puzzle: fit the available dominoes onto the board while meeting the condition shown in each colored region. A condition may apply to only one half of a domino if the tile crosses a region boundary, so count each pip value in the square it occupies. Uncolored spaces have no special region condition, but the tiles must still fit the board.
For this puzzle, the listed conditions include exact totals, equal values, all-different values, and totals above or below a threshold. Tap a domino to rotate it; the game offers Easy, Medium, and Hard boards. Tom’s Guide says Pips is available through New York Times Games online or in the app, but does not establish access terms for this specific puzzle: Tom’s Guide’s Pips guide.
Hints before the answers
- Start with regions that have an exact total or require equal values. For a multi-square total, keep track of how much of the target remains as domino halves enter the region.
- In an all-different region, check every value contributed by a half. Different dominoes can still repeat the same value.
- Rotate tiles to test their orientation, and check whether a domino crosses a colored boundary.
- If you want the complete reported placements, choose the difficulty below. The lists are organized by region condition, so the same tile may appear more than once when its halves contribute to different regions.
Easy answers
The date-specific guide reports these placements for the Easy board:
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- Total 0: 0–0 vertically.
- Second total 0 region: 0–5 horizontally.
- Total 7: 0–5 horizontally and 2–1 vertically.
- Equal (1): 1–1 horizontally, 2–1 vertically, and 1–0 horizontally.
Medium answers
The guide reports these placements for the Medium board:
- Equal (1): 1–1 vertically.
- Equal (5): 5–5 horizontally and 5–0 vertically.
- Total 3: 3–5 horizontally.
- Not Equal: 3–4 horizontally, 3–5 horizontally, and 4–6 vertically.
- Equal (0): 5–0 vertically and 0–6 horizontally.
- Total 6: 4–6 vertically.
Hard answers
The guide reports these placements for the Hard board:
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- Total 4: 2–2 horizontally and 0–6 horizontally.
- Greater Than 4 (light blue): 0–6 horizontally.
- Total 3: 1–2 horizontally, 3–1 horizontally, and 1–4 vertically.
- Not Equal: 4–2 horizontally and 1–2 horizontally.
- Greater Than 5: 3–4 vertically and 3–1 horizontally.
- Equal (4): 3–4 vertically, 4–4 horizontally, and 1–4 vertically.
- Total 15: 5–6 horizontally and 5–5 horizontally.
- Greater Than 4: 5–6 horizontally.
- Total 17: 3–5 horizontally and 6–6 horizontally.
How to read the placement lists
These are placements listed by the answer guide against each region’s rule, not a single inventory of unique dominoes. When one tile straddles two regions, the guide may name it under both conditions because each half contributes to a different region. Do not treat repeated descriptions as additional physical tiles. The guide’s placements are secondary reporting, not an independently verified board reconstruction.
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