Here are the available NYT Pips hints and domino placements for Tuesday, January 13, 2026. Easy and Medium have text-listed placements below. The complete Hard solution is available only in the dated solution image among the sources cited here; the text does not provide enough placements to reproduce it accurately.
Spoilers: The placements below reveal answers. Pips asks you to place dominoes across the board so each colored region satisfies its mathematical condition.
How to read the placements
A domino is written as two pip counts, such as 4-2. “Horizontally” and “vertically” describe its orientation, not its location. The source text does not establish cell coordinates, so these clues should not be treated as a complete placement map.
Region labels matter: “Equal” means the pips in that region must match the displayed number; “Number” gives a target total; “Less Than” and “Greater Than” set strict bounds. Check each condition on the board before placing a tile.
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Easy answers for January 13
- Less Than (5): 4-2, vertically.
- Number (5): 4-2, vertically; 3-6, horizontally.
- Equal (6): 3-6, horizontally; 6-1, vertically.
- Less Than (1): 6-0, vertically.
- Equal (1): 5-1, vertically; 6-1, vertically.
Medium answers for January 13
- Equal (3): 3-3, horizontally.
- Number (4): 4-1, horizontally.
- Equal (1): 4-1, horizontally; 1-5, vertically.
- Equal (6): 6-6, vertically; 6-2, vertically; 6-0, horizontally.
- Less Than (2): 6-0, horizontally.
- Equal (5): 1-5, vertically; 5-6, vertically.
- Less Than (3): 6-2, vertically.
- Less Than (1): 6-0, vertically.
- Greater Than (5): 5-6, vertically.
Hard: confirmed clues and missing placements
The available text confirms only part of the Hard answer: the Number (0) region uses a 0-2 domino vertically. The Equal (1) region begins with 1-6 and 1-0 vertically, followed by 1-1 and 1-3 horizontally. The remainder of the Hard placements is not established in the text, so this is not a complete solution.
A dated page by Daze Puzzle includes Easy, Medium, and Hard solution images. Use its Hard image or the NYT board to check the remaining tile positions rather than inferring them from this partial list.
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Sources and scope
The Easy and Medium clue lists above are reported in Mashable’s January 13, 2026 article, syndicated by Yahoo Tech; its indexed text provides domino values and orientations but not coordinates. The rule overview is also described by Tom’s Guide’s explanation of how to play Pips, published August 31, 2025. Pips offers Easy, Medium, and Hard boards, but the available sources do not establish comparable board metrics for ranking these January 13 puzzles by difficulty.
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