Yesterday's NYT Pips Hints and Answers: Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Tuesday’s NYT Pips (April 21, 2026) featured six pieces across Easy, nine through Medium, and a demanding thirteen-domino configuration on Hard. All three boards from that day are now locked; the complete placements and walkthrough are below.

Yesterday’s Easy Pips Answer: April 21, 2026

Tuesday’s Easy board led with the 0|0 double in the lower zone, which had only one valid position on the grid. With that anchor set, 4|4 claimed the top row. The column structure then dictated the rest: 5|6 and 6|0 down the first column, 1|2 and 0|5 handling the last column. Six pieces in total, and the order fell naturally once the two doubles were placed first.

Yesterday’s Medium Pips Answer: April 21, 2026

Medium opened with the 6|6 double taking the single legal slot in the upper-right zone. From there, 2|2 locked the adjacent equal-constraint zone. The remaining columns resolved left to right: 5|2 and 5|4 down the first column, 4|2 and 2|0 filling the second. Three cross-zone dominoes, 1|6, 3|0, and 0|1, closed the interior rows. Nine pieces, and the doubles drove the entire solving order.

Yesterday’s Hard Pips Answer: April 21, 2026

Tuesday’s Hard required a column-by-column approach. The first column stacked 4|4, 5|5, and 5|4 vertically, each satisfying tight zone conditions with no room for substitution. The second column took 4|0 and 1|1. The third: 6|6 and 2|3. The last column resolved with 1|0, 4|3, 5|6, and 4|1. Crossing row pieces, 5|3 and 3|6, then sealed the remaining zones. Thirteen dominoes total; one wrong placement in column one locked the board out of a solution.

Yesterday’s Answers

NYT Pips: April 21, 2026

Key placements for all three difficulty levels.

• Easy doubles anchor 5|6 · 6|0 · 1|2 · 0|5 · 4|4 · 0|0