Here are the February 20, 2026, NYT Pips hints for Easy, Medium, and Hard, followed by the listed placements for each board. Try the clue for your difficulty before opening the solutions below.
February 20 Pips hints by difficulty
| Difficulty | Hint | Listed placement steps |
|---|---|---|
| Easy | The 6/6 domino is horizontal in the turquoise area. | 4 |
| Medium | The 4/4 domino is horizontal in the dark-blue area. | 6 |
| Hard | The 1/1 domino is horizontal in the last row. | 9 |
The step counts are the number of placements in the cited walkthroughs, not a measured difficulty score.
Spoilers: complete placements
The following sections give the full listed placements. Rows are counted from top to bottom; “horizontal” and “vertical” describe each domino’s orientation.
Easy answers
- Place 3/4 horizontally between the purple and blank spaces in the first row.
- Place 6/0 horizontally between the turquoise and orange spaces in the first row.
- Place 4/4 vertically in the pink spaces in the second and third rows.
- Place 6/6 horizontally in the turquoise spaces in the second row.
Medium answers
- Place 6/6 vertically between the blank and purple spaces in the first and second rows.
- Place 6/5 vertically between the blank and turquoise spaces in the second and third rows.
- Place 4/4 horizontally in the pink spaces in the second and third rows.
- Place 4/6 horizontally between the orange and turquoise spaces in the fourth row.
- Place 0/3 vertically between the blank and dark-blue spaces in the third and fourth rows.
- Place 4/3 horizontally in the dark-blue spaces in the last row.
Hard answers
- Place 6/1 vertically between the purple and orange spaces in the first and second rows.
- Place 5/0 vertically between the purple and dark-blue spaces in the first and second rows.
- Place 1/4 horizontally between the pink and turquoise spaces in the first row.
- Place 2/2 horizontally between the green and purple spaces in the second row.
- Place 3/0 horizontally in the pink spaces in the third row.
- Place 3/6 horizontally between the turquoise and orange spaces in the fourth row.
- Place 3/2 vertically between the dark-blue and pink spaces in the fifth and sixth rows.
- Place 1/2 vertically between the dark-blue and pink spaces in the fifth and sixth rows.
- Place 0/6 horizontally between the green and purple spaces in the fifth row.
How NYT Pips works
Pips is a grid puzzle built around placing dominoes. Use the provided tiles while meeting the conditions attached to colored regions. Depending on the board, a region may require values to match or differ, meet a greater-than or less-than condition, total an exact value, or impose no restriction. Read each region’s rule; color alone does not determine where a tile belongs. The cited Forbes walkthrough also notes that a board may have more than one valid solution.
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These dated placements are listed by MyPipsGame, with the Hard walkthrough also corroborated by Forbes. Try Hard Guides confirms the daily Easy, Medium, and Hard format and offers general solving tips. The official game page did not expose a historical archive of the February 20 boards, so the placements here are based on those dated guides.
Sources: MyPipsGame’s February 20 guide, Forbes’ February 20 walkthrough, and Try Hard Guides’ answers and tips.
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