NYT Pips tips, answers for May 6, 2026

Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in New York Times

Okwamanje, uma ubambekile, igeyimu inikeza kuphela ukuveza yonke iphazili, okukuphoqa ukuthi udlulele kuleveli yobunzima elandelayo bese uqala kabusha. Nokho, sikumbozile! Below are a few answers that will serve as tips so you can find your way through each difficulty level.

If you have ever played dominoes, you will have a passing familiarity with how Pips is played. As we shared in our previous Pips stories, tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and are connected to each other. The main difference between the traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the colored situations you have to deal with. Touching tiles do not have to be the same.

The conditions you must meet are specific to colored spaces. For example, if it gives a single number, all sides of the tile in that space must add up to the given number. It is possible – and common – for half of the tile to be in the middle of a colored space.

Here are some common examples you’ll encounter at all difficulty levels:

• : All pipes in this space must include a number.

• : Every domino part in this space must be the same number of tiles.

• : Every domino part in this space must have a completely different number of pipes.

• Less than: Every domino part in this space must add up to less than a number.

• Every domino half in this space must add up to more than a number.

If an area has no color coding, then there are no shapes in the dominoes within those spaces.

Easy Difficulty Tips, May 6 Pips Answers

Everything in this space must add up to 15. The answer is 5-2, placed face up; 5-5, placed horizontally.

Everything in this space must add up to 3. Impendulo ithi 1-6, ibekwe zibheke phezulu; 5-2, placed vertically.

Number (6): Everything in this space must add up to 6. The answer is 11-6, placed upside down.

Everything in this space must be less than 5. The answer is 4-6, placed face up.

Number (12): Everything in this space must add up to 12. The answer is 6-5, placed upside down; 4-6, placed vertically.

Medium difficulty tips, May 6 Pips answers

Everything in this space must be greater than 3. The answer is 4-6, placed horizontally.

Everything in this space must be equal to 6. The answer is 4-6, placed horizontally; 6-3, placed horizontally.

Under (7): Everything in this space must be less than 7. The answer is 0-0, placed upside down; 6-3, placed horizontally.

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Equivalent (4): Everything in this space must be equal to 4. The answer is 4-4, placed horizontally; 4-0, ibekwe mpo.

Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 2-6, placed horizontally; 2-2, placed horizontally.

Everything in this space must be less than 6. The answer is 4-0, placed upside down.

Difficulty tips, May 6 Pips answers

Number (9): Everything in this space must add up to 9. Impendulo ithi 3-0, ibekwe ivundlile; 6-0, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add up to 4. The answer is 4-2, placed face up.

Everything in this space must add up to 3. The answer is 3-2, placed face up.

Everything in this space must add up to 1. The answer is 1-2, placed horizontally.

Konke okukulesi sikhala kumele kulingane no-2. Impendulo ithi 1-2, ibekwe ngokuvundlile; 4-2, placed vertically; 3-2, placed vertically.

Everything in this space must be greater than 3. The answer is 4-3, placed face up.

Under (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 2-5, placed face up.

Everything in this space must add up to 2. The answer is 0-1, placed upside down; 4-1, ibekwe ngokuvundlile.

Everything in this space must add up to 5. Impendulo ithi 2-5, ibekwe zibheke phezulu.

Equivalent to (6):

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Equivalent (3): Yonke into kulesi sikhala kumele ilingane no-3. Impendulo ithi 3-3, ibekwe ngokuvundlile; 3-1, placed vertically; 3-5, placed vertically.

Number (5):

Number (1):

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