Pips: The New York Times’ New Logic Puzzle Connects Numbers and Color

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The New York Times Games team has unveiled Pips NYT, its first fully original logic puzzle, marking a fresh addition to the paper’s growing collection of daily challenges. Built around dominoes and color-coded regions, Pips invites players to place numbered tiles on a grid while meeting specific conditions that test both logic and intuition.

Each color on the board represents a rule — some require equal values, others demand all numbers to differ, or to add up to a target sum. The puzzle’s structure looks simple, yet solving it often requires multiple rounds of trial, error, and deduction.

The game’s interface follows the Times’ familiar minimalist style: clean visuals, quiet feedback, and a satisfying drag-and-drop design that lets players focus entirely on strategy. Available in Easy, Medium, and Hard levels, Pips offers something for both casual solvers and serious logicians.

With Pips, the Times continues expanding beyond wordplay into pure logic territory. Early players have praised it as “calm but clever,” a game that rewards patience as much as insight — and a reminder that good puzzles still have room to surprise.

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