MyPipsGame

MyPipsGame runs from Easy through Master, so the board size and constraint density scale with your skill. Because there's no daily cap, you can replay at the same tier until a rule pattern clicks or jump straight to a harder set. That freedom is the main thing separating it from the official daily format.

The Make Your Own tool lets you draw regions and assign conditions, then the site's AI generates a balanced domino solution that actually fits your layout. You can share the finished puzzle and challenge other players. A puzzle that's unsolvable or trivially easy is the usual failure of hand-built ones, and this tool is aimed squarely at that problem. It usually lands.

For people working through the official NYT Pips, the site publishes daily hints from its own editors. The hints nudge you toward the next deduction instead of dumping the full grid. It's an independent companion, not an official channel, so treat it as a study aid rather than a guaranteed answer key. Nobody likes a spoiler.

Boards combine four rule types: an exact number, an equal-pips region, a not-equal region, and a less-than threshold. The real difficulty lives in overlapping regions, where one domino has to satisfy two labels at once. Expert and Master boards lean heavily on those overlaps. Easy boards barely use them at all.

Clicking a domino cycles it through four directions and dragging places it in the target area, which works with a mouse or a touchscreen. The interaction stays out of the way once you're in the flow. If you've played a drag-based grid puzzle before, you'll be placing tiles within a minute.