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Here are spoiler-light first moves for the New York Times Pips puzzles dated Wednesday, September 9, 2026, followed by the full Easy, Medium, and Hard solutions. Each difficulty has a separate board.
- Easy: The top-right single cell marked
> 4must be 5. - Medium: The single-cell
= 0region must be 0. - Hard: The top-right single cell marked
= 3must be 3.
Stop here if you only wanted a nudge. The complete region values and tile placements appear below the spoiler warning.
How to approach the September 9 Pips boards
Pips is a domino-placement logic puzzle: place every domino so the values in each colored region satisfy its rule. The September 9 boards use exact-sum, comparison, all-equal, and unrestricted regions. Begin with a single-cell target or another tightly constrained region, then track the remaining dominoes and check both halves of each placement against their cells. Guessing placements without accounting for the tray can create conflicts later.
The three boards differ in size and constraint mix. These are counts for this date, not general Pips board averages:
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| Difficulty | Cells | Dominoes | Regions | Useful first constraint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | 10 | 5 | 5 | Top-right > 4 single cell |
| Medium | 14 | 7 | 9 | Single-cell = 0 region |
| Hard | 28 | 14 | 14 | Top-right = 3 single cell |
Hard has five doubles in its tray and several tightly constrained regions. That makes placing doubles early in matching all-equal regions a useful way to narrow the board; it does not establish a solve-time comparison.
Spoiler warning: full answers and placements
The solutions below give region values and tile locations for all three boards. Rows and columns are numbered from 1, with row 1 at the top and column 1 at the left. Tile endpoints are written in the order given; the listed cells show where each endpoint goes.
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Easy (#1260)
Region values: The = 9 pair is 3 and 6; the > 1 single cell is 2; the four-cell = 4 block is 1, 1, 1, 1; the > 4 single cell is 5; and the all-equal pair is 0, 0.
Tile placements:
1–1: row 2, columns 3–43–2: row 1, columns 1–21–0: row 3, column 3 and row 3, column 20–6: row 3, column 1 and row 2, column 11–5: row 1, columns 3–4
Medium (#1267)
Region values: The > 1 single cell is 2; the unrestricted middle cell is 6; one = 6 pair is 3, 3 and the other is 1, 5; the = 0 single cell is 0; the three all-equal pairs are 5, 5, 3, 3, and 5, 5; and the < 6 single cell is 4.
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Tile placements:
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Hard (#1272)
Region values: The unrestricted top-left single cell is 2; the = 11 pair is 6 and 5; the all-equal four-cell region is 1, 1, 1, 1; the = 3 single cell is 3; the all-equal three-cell region is 3, 3, 3; the four-cell = 2 block is 0, 0, 0, 2; the all-equal pairs are 0, 0 and 2, 2; the three > 3 single cells are 4, 4, and 6; the = 13 three-cell region is 4, 4, 5; and the = 1 single cell is 1.
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Tile placements:
6–2: row 1, column 2 and row 1, column 15–0: row 1, column 3 and row 2, column 31–1: row 1, columns 5–60–0: row 3, columns 2–34–4: row 7, column 5 and row 8, column 53–1: row 1, column 9 and row 1, column 80–6: row 3, column 7 and row 4, column 74–2: row 5, column 3 and row 4, column 30–1: row 2, column 7 and row 1, column 75–6: row 5, column 7 and row 6, column 72–2: row 5, column 5 and row 6, column 53–3: row 2, column 1 and row 3, column 11–5: row 9, columns 6–53–4: row 4, column 1 and row 5, column 1
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