Eddie Nketiah blew his big chance, so it was thankagukank for Ismaila Sarr in Crystal Palace, who still up a crushing blow with a late winner in Selhurst Park.
With relegation rivals wolves who play later in the day and palace without a talismic striker Jean-Philippe Mateta, there was opportunities open for the tractor boys.
But after a clear start, they faded poorly and although Palace looked toothless with the ineffective Nketiah who missed their best chance, Ipswich could not benefit.
Manchester United belongs to the teams that are interested in Mateta and if this was a look in a possible future without him for the Eagles, it was a pretty grim.
But a flurry of late pressure finally told and Sarr she was finally at the front with just over eight minutes to go and scored his seventh goal of the season.
Mateta scored the winner in the reverse fixture on Portman Road in December.
But with the Frenchman out of action after he was brutally kicked in the head by Millwall keeper Liam Roberts, it was Eddie Nketiah who led the line for Palace.
And Nketiah should have been scored within two minutes when Adam Wharton cleaned him with a nice ball.
But the former Arsenal turned off while he drilled on Alex Palmer and the Ipswich keeper eventually blocked his shot.
Dean Henderson then made a diving saving to refuse Yaden Philogene on the other side, before a last ditch from Jacob Greaves Ebereechi dawn a certain goal.
Henderson did well again when Julio Enciso embarrassed Marc Guehi to shoot in a shot halfway through the first half.
Ipswich survived a fear when Leif Davis went down hard after a collision of the air with Daniel Munoz, but he eventually got back to his feet after a long treatment.
Eze almost scored a comical goal at the start of the second half when his cross of Dara O'Shea ran and beat Palmer to hit the distant pole.
But Ippswich should have done better during a quick break when Jack Clarke Helder racet, but played a bad ball for Liam Delap, who had to dig it out before he shot straight to Henderson.
Ismaila Sarr then cleaned up his own goalline from Delap, before Eze Palmer tested with a bent shot and SARR widely went out of a corner.
Ipswich had to thank Palmer again for storing it when he made a brilliant save to deny Daniel Munoz with 12 minutes to go.
But it didn't take, and it was Sarr who eventually broke the impasse, struck too easily and the ball over the Rushing Palmer Donk.
Ipswich pressed as hard as they could for an equalizer, but that was not the case, and they have now only taken two points of a possible 27 this calendar year. Chilly.
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