Today's hints
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Hint 1 — reveal hint
Easy (#1320): five dominoes, seven regions — fill the single-cell locks before the equality bands.
Hint 2 — reveal hint
Medium (#1325): eight dominoes; a double-1 and double-2 help pin the top and right edges.
Hint 3 — reveal hint
Hard (#1340): sixteen dominoes packed into many tiny regions — place doubles (0-0, 3-3, 4-4) early.
Hint 4 — reveal hint
On Hard, pip value 4 appears most often; don’t strand the 6-3 and 6-4 without an exit path.
Hint 5 — reveal hint
Easy opener: the 5-5 double stands vertically near the top-left equality cluster.
Hint 6 — reveal hint
If Easy ends on 3-3, Medium on 5-0, and Hard on 3-2, today’s three boards are placed.
The answer
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Reveal answer and explanation
Why this answer
Pips placements for October 8, 2026
Easy #1320 (Ian Livengood): Start with singles and equality cells, then seat the 5-5 double and the 0-6 along the bottom edge.
Medium #1325 (Ian Livengood): The 1-1 double anchors the top; work sum regions of 9 after the forced edges are set.
Hard #1340 (Rodolfo Kurchan): Dense single-cell regions mean almost every half-pip is constrained. Seat doubles first, then snake the 6-value dominoes through the remaining corridors.
Full coordinate placements are in the answer field above (domino [row,col]-[row,col]).
Solve notes
Playing today’s Pips set
Treat each board as its own logic puzzle. Easy teaches the equality/sum rhythm; Medium adds tighter sums; Hard is a placement marathon of tiny regions.
Board IDs
- Easy #1320
- Medium #1325
- Hard #1340
Questions about this edition
What are today’s NYT Pips board numbers?
Easy #1320, Medium #1325, and Hard #1340 for October 8, 2026.
Who constructed today’s Pips boards?
Easy and Medium are by Ian Livengood; Hard is by Rodolfo Kurchan.
Does TECHi list full domino placements?
Yes — every domino half is listed with grid coordinates in the answer reveal.
Where can I find yesterday’s Pips?
Wednesday’s Easy #1329 / Medium #1345 / Hard #1355 set is on TECHi’s Yesterday Pips page.
When does the next Pips set release?
A new Easy/Medium/Hard trio unlocks Friday, October 9, 2026.
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| Date | Puzzle | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Wed, Oct 7, 2026 | Pips | Easy #1329: 0-3 [0,1]-[0,2]; 4-1 [2,2]-[2,1]; 1-2 [0,0]-[1,0]; 2-5 [0,4]-[0,3]; 5-4 [2,3]-[1,3] | Medium #1345: 0-6 [2,2]-[1,2]; 3-0 [1,0]-[2,0]; 0-0 [2,1]-[3,1]; 0-1 [2,3]-[3,3]; 4-0 [4,2]-[3,2]; 1-4 [3,0]-[4,0]; 3-3 [0,1]-[1,1] | Hard #1355: 2-0 [0,7]-[1,7]; 4-1 [4,0]-[5,0]; 6-2 [0,1]-[0,2]; 4-6 [5,5]-[5,6]; 6-6 [4,7]-[5,7]; 4-3 [5,4]-[4,4]; 5-1 [0,4]-[1,4]; 5-0 [2,4]-[3,4]; 3-5 [5,1]-[5,2]; 0-0 [2,7]-[3,7]; 3-1 [0,0]-[1,0]; 4-2 [2,0]-[3,0] |
| Tue, Oct 6, 2026 | Pips | Easy #1317: 0-0 [0,2]-[0,3]; 6-6 [1,0]-[2,0]; 5-3 [2,3]-[3,3]; 4-2 [1,1]-[0,1]; 3-2 [2,2]-[1,2] | Medium #1323: 4-4 [1,0]-[1,1]; 6-1 [2,0]-[2,1]; 5-0 [0,2]-[0,3]; 1-3 [2,2]-[3,2]; 5-5 [2,3]-[3,3]; 6-2 [3,0]-[3,1]; 2-5 [1,3]-[1,2] | Hard #1339: 2-4 [4,7]-[3,7]; 4-0 [4,4]-[3,4]; 6-6 [3,2]-[4,2]; 3-3 [0,0]-[0,1]; 4-4 [2,6]-[2,7]; 1-2 [0,4]-[0,5]; 2-5 [0,6]-[0,7]; 3-4 [1,0]-[2,0]; 4-5 [1,4]-[2,4]; 4-6 [3,0]-[4,0]; 3-6 [2,1]-[2,2]; 2-6 [0,2]-[1,2]; 2-2 [4,5]-[4,6] |
| Mon, Oct 5, 2026 | Pips | Easy #1336: 4-3 [2,3]-[1,3]; 4-5 [0,2]-[0,3]; 0-1 [1,0]-[0,0]; 2-3 [2,2]-[2,1]; 6-3 [1,1]-[0,1] | Medium #1353: 5-3 [3,2]-[2,2]; 5-2 [1,2]-[0,2]; 3-3 [2,0]-[2,1]; 4-6 [0,3]-[1,3]; 1-4 [3,3]-[2,3]; 2-6 [3,4]-[2,4]; 5-4 [1,1]-[1,0] | Hard #1363: 0-1 [0,2]-[0,1]; 5-0 [5,3]-[5,4]; 6-1 [3,5]-[2,5]; 2-4 [1,3]-[1,2]; 6-3 [2,0]-[3,0]; 4-4 [0,5]-[1,5]; 2-6 [4,4]-[4,3]; 2-2 [4,1]-[5,1]; 0-6 [1,0]-[0,0]; 0-2 [2,4]-[1,4]; 3-3 [4,0]-[5,0]; 3-2 [0,4]-[0,3]; 1-3 [4,2]-[5,2]; 3-0 [2,1]-[1,1]; 0-0 [4,5]-[5,5] |
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