Daily NYT “Pips” Puzzle #13 Generates Buzz Among Logic-Game Enthusiasts

August 31, 2025 - Today, the New York Times released the thirteenth installment of Pips, its domino-based logic puzzle, driving a wave of coverage and commentary across gaming and lifestyle outlets.

In the early hours, the Times published three difficulty levels-Easy, Medium and Hard-inviting players to arrange dominoes on a colored grid so that each region’s pip-sum or equality condition is satisfied. As usual, the puzzle appeared at 12 p.m. ET on the NYT Games app and website.

Shortly after launch, several third-party sites offered step-by-step hints and full solutions. Nerdschalk provided detailed walkthroughs for every tier, complete with screenshots and strategic advice to guide solvers through each of the twelve placement steps on the Hard puzzle and the four steps on the Easy and Medium versions. Meanwhile, Yahoo’s “Currently” section published concise pip-sum and equality clues-such as the Easy puzzle’s requirement to place 6-5 and 5-2 dominoes horizontally in the “sum-to-10” region-and outlined similar solutions for Medium and Hard boards.

Also joining the chorus, Forbes offered expert commentary, breaking down key strategies for tackling complex conditions like “two pink regions summing to zero” and “purple groups requiring non-matching pips,” along with a solver’s personal approach emphasizing high-frequency pip values.

Players noted that today’s Hard puzzle featured relatively fewer distinct conditions-primarily totals and equals-streamlining the solving process despite a dense board layout. Social media channels lit up with users sharing completion screenshots and tips for identifying the most common pip values to satisfy multi-cell constraints.

With Pips continuing to draw enthusiastic daily audiences since its mid-August debut, today’s puzzle once again underscored the appeal of combining spatial reasoning with simple arithmetic in a casual mobile game setting.