I made a hearty brunch on Thanksgiving, and while I prepared the meal, I put on Christmas music. So it begins. The holiday season is upon us. The year 2025 is coming to an end. Thanksgiving is in the rearview, and jolly Old Saint Nick is hard at work with his elves, reindeer, and the myriad contractors he must employ to keep everything in tip-top shape.

I doubt he has time for NYT Games puzzles, but we do. Let’s solve this Pips!

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## How To Play Pips

In Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you must use to fill in the grid. You must use every domino and satisfy every condition properly to win.

There are Easy, Medium, and Difficult tiers.

Here’s an example of a difficult tier Pips:

As you can see, the grid has a bunch of symbols and numbers with each color.

– On the far left, the three purple squares must **not** equal one another (hence the equal sign crossed out).
– The two pink squares next to that must equal a total of 0.
– The zig-zagging blue squares all must equal one another.

You click on dominoes to rotate them, and you will need to do so because they have to be rotated to fit where they belong.

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### Additional Conditions

Not shown on this grid are other conditions, such as “less than” or “greater than.”

– **>** The pip in this tile (or tiles) must be greater than the listed number.
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