NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Friday, June 12

InnovationGamingNYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Friday, June 12ByErik Kain,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture.Follow AuthorJun 11, 2026, 06:15pm EDT Today's PipsCredit: NYTLooking for help with today’s Easy, Medium and Hard NYT Pips puzzles? Whether you’re after a nudge in the right direction or just want to compare notes, below you’ll find everything you need to solve each of today’s Pips plus a full walkthrough for today’s Hard Pips. Friday is here at last, Pipsqueaks. The FIFA World Cup kicks off, which explains why we’ve been getting Hard Pips puzzles spelling out CUP and FUT and, I suspect, BOL soon enough. Most people call it futbol rather than soccer. In any case, let’s solve these PIPS! Today’s Medium Pips was quite a tricky one!Looking for Thursday’s Pips? Read our guide right here.How To Play PipsIn Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend filling in the grid. You must use every domino and achieve every condition properly to win. There are Easy, Medium and Difficult tiers.Play Puzzles & Games on ForbesFEATURED | Frase ByForbes™Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The PhrasePlay NowPinpoint By LinkedinGuess The CategoryPlay NowQueens By LinkedinCrown Each RegionPlay NowCrossclimb By LinkedinUnlock A Trivia LadderPlay NowHere’s an example of a difficult tier Pips:Pips exampleScreenshot: Erik KainAs you can see, the grid has a bunch of symbols and numbers with each color. On the far left, the three purple squares must not equal one another (hence the equal sign crossed out). The two pink squares next to that must equal a total of 0. The zig-zagging blue squares all must equal one another. You click on dominoes to rotate them, and will need to since they have to be rotated to...