NYT Pips Players Get Help: Hints & Answers for Easy, Medium, Hard Levels on September 22, 2025
Fans of NYT Pips, the popular grid-logic puzzle by The New York Times, have reason to cheer: new hints and full answers for the Easy, Medium, and Hard levels were released to assist players navigating today’s challenge.
What’s Inside the Help Guide
Easy Level: A few clues that highlight how certain domino placements work or which grid sections to focus on first.
Medium Level: Strategic tips pointing out spots where logic or comparison cues (greater than, less than) are key.
Hard Level: More complex combinations and tricky placements, including how to use “equal vs not equal” and number-based constraints to your advantage.
The article also provides the full solutions, allowing stuck players to check their answers or learn from mistakes. It’s the kind of breakdown that helps with streaks, understanding puzzle logic, or just enjoying the challenge while avoiding frustration.
Why This Matters
Pips is among NYT’s newer logic games, combining spatial reasoning with numerical logic, which makes each level potentially tough without help.
Having a daily guide helps both casual players and those aiming to improve — giving insight into how some of the harder puzzles are designed.
The hints and full answers also help demystify patterns, so players can spot them quicker in future puzzles.