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NYT Pips hints & answers: Sunday, July 19, 2026

Updated: Sunday, July 19, 2026 · Hints reviewed by Omer Liban · New puzzles (easy, medium, hard) daily at midnight US Eastern Time. · Puzzle editor: Ian Livengood.

This page has every level of help for the NYT Pips puzzle of Sunday, July 19, 2026: 2 spoiler-free hint tiers that narrow things down step by step, followed by the complete answers with explanations — each behind its own tap-to-reveal card.

Pips is the NYT's domino logic puzzle — three boards a day, easy to hard. Check the board overview, take a strategy nudge, or reveal full placements difficulty by difficulty.

Pips is a domino-placement logic puzzle: place every domino so each region's rule is satisfied — “=” means all cells match, “>” or “<” compare to a number, a plain number is a sum target. Three boards daily: easy, medium and hard.

Pips hints (July 19, 2026)

1Board overview
  • Easy: 6 dominoes — regions: 1 all-equal, 3 empty, 2 sum, 2 less-than.
  • Medium: 7 dominoes — regions: 1 empty, 3 greater-than, 3 sum, 1 less-than.
  • Hard: 16 dominoes — regions: 16 sum, 2 greater-than, 2 all-equal, 2 less-than.
2Strategy nudge
  • Place forced dominoes first: single-cell regions and empty cells lock specific halves in place.
  • In all-equal regions, count which pip value appears often enough across your remaining dominoes to fill every cell.

Pips answers — July 19, 2026

★Easy solution
  • Domino [6|3] goes on (r3,c2) and (r3,c3)
  • Domino [1|1] goes on (r1,c2) and (r1,c3)
  • Domino [0|0] goes on (r2,c4) and (r3,c4)
  • Domino [1|0] goes on (r5,c4) and (r4,c4)
  • Domino [6|5] goes on (r3,c1) and (r2,c1)
  • Domino [5|4] goes on (r5,c1) and (r4,c1)
★Medium solution
  • Domino [3|1] goes on (r2,c5) and (r2,c6)
  • Domino [4|4] goes on (r3,c2) and (r3,c3)
  • Domino [3|0] goes on (r2,c3) and (r2,c4)
  • Domino [1|6] goes on (r3,c4) and (r3,c5)
  • Domino [3|4] goes on (r3,c6) and (r3,c7)
  • Domino [1|5] goes on (r1,c2) and (r2,c2)
  • Domino [6|3] goes on (r2,c1) and (r3,c1)
★Hard solution
  • Domino [4|4] goes on (r3,c1) and (r4,c1)
  • Domino [1|1] goes on (r6,c3) and (r7,c3)
  • Domino [2|2] goes on (r1,c3) and (r1,c4)
  • Domino [1|5] goes on (r4,c3) and (r4,c2)
  • Domino [6|6] goes on (r2,c4) and (r2,c5)
  • Domino [4|1] goes on (r4,c5) and (r4,c4)
  • Domino [3|0] goes on (r7,c4) and (r6,c4)
  • Domino [5|4] goes on (r9,c5) and (r9,c4)
  • Domino [3|3] goes on (r8,c3) and (r8,c4)
  • Domino [1|0] goes on (r5,c3) and (r5,c2)
  • Domino [4|3] goes on (r2,c2) and (r2,c3)
  • Domino [1|2] goes on (r3,c4) and (r3,c5)
  • Domino [4|6] goes on (r4,c6) and (r3,c6)
  • Domino [4|0] goes on (r5,c5) and (r5,c4)
  • Domino [1|6] goes on (r3,c2) and (r3,c3)
  • Domino [4|2] goes on (r9,c3) and (r9,c2)

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Pips — common questions

What do the region symbols mean in Pips?

An '=' region means every cell holds the same pip value; '>' or '<' regions compare each cell to a target number; a sum region's cells must add to the shown total; a blank region has no constraint.

Do unused domino halves matter in Pips?

Every domino must be placed, and both halves count wherever they land — a half sitting in an empty region is fine, but a half inside a rule region must satisfy that rule.

Is there more than one Pips solution?

Puzzles are designed with a unique intended solution, though occasionally an alternative placement satisfies all rules — the NYT accepts any arrangement that passes every region check.

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