NYT Pips hints, solutions for September 21

Completely satisfied Saturday and welcome to your information to Pips, the most recent sport within the New York Occasions catalogue.

Launched in August 2025, the Pips places a singular spin on dominoes, making a enjoyable single-player expertise that might turn out to be your subsequent every day gaming behavior.

At present, if you happen to’re caught, the sport solely presents to disclose your complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent issue stage and begin over. Nevertheless, we now have you coated! Under are piecemeal solutions that may function hints in an effort to discover your means by way of every issue stage.

How one can play Pips

Should you’ve ever performed dominoes, you will have a passing familiarity for the way Pips is performed. As we have shared in our earlier hints tales for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are positioned vertically or horizontally and join with one another. The primary distinction between a conventional sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances you must handle. The touching tiles do not essentially should match.

The circumstances you must meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it gives a single quantity, each facet of a tile in that area should add as much as the quantity supplied. It’s attainable – and customary – for under half a tile to be inside a color-coded area.

Listed here are frequent examples you will run into throughout the problem ranges:

• Quantity: All of the pips on this area should add as much as the quantity.

• Equal: Each domino half on this area have to be the identical variety of pips.

• Not Equal: Each domino half on this area should have a totally totally different variety of pips.

• Lower than: Each domino half on this area should add as much as lower than the quantity.

• Higher than: Each domino half on this area should add as much as greater than the quantity.

If an space doesn’t have any shade coding, it means there aren’t any circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Straightforward issue hints, solutions for Sept. 21 Pips

Quantity (4): Every little thing on this area should add to 4. The reply is 3-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (2): Every little thing on this area should add to 2. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically; 0-1, positioned vertically.

Quantity (5): Every little thing on this area should add to five. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically; 3-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (6): Every little thing on this area should add to six. The reply is 3-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (3): Every little thing on this area should add to three. The reply is 3-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (1): Every little thing on this area should add to 1. The reply is 3-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (0): Every little thing on this area should add to 0. The reply is 0-0, positioned horizontally.

Medium issue hints, solutions for Sept. 20 Pips

Quantity (4): Every little thing on this area should add to 4. The reply is 2-2, positioned vertically.

Lower than (6): Every little thing on this area have to be lower than 6. The reply is 5-6, positioned vertically.

Lower than (4): Every little thing on this area have to be lower than 4. The reply is 6-3, positioned vertically.

Lower than (2): Every little thing on this area have to be lower than 2. The reply is 1-6, positioned horizontally.

Lower than (5): Every little thing on this area have to be lower than 5. The reply is 6-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (42): Every little thing on this area should add to 42. The reply is 5-6, positioned vertically; 6-3, positioned vertically; 6-4, positioned vertically; 6-2, positioned horizontally; 6-6, positioned horizontally; 1-6, positioned horizontally; 0-6, positioned horizontally.

Lower than (3): Every little thing on this area have to be lower than 3. The reply is 6-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (0): Every little thing on this area should add to 0. The reply is 0-6, positioned vertically.

Equal (5): Every little thing on this area have to be equal to five. The reply is 5-5, positioned vertically.

Arduous issue hints, solutions for Sept. 20 Pips

Quantity (3): Every little thing on this area should add to three. The reply is 3-6, positioned vertically.

Higher than (4): Every little thing on this area have to be higher than 4. The reply is 3-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (3): Every little thing on this area should add to three. The reply is 3-1, positioned vertically.

Lower than (4): Every little thing on this area have to be lower than 4. The reply is 3-1, positioned vertically.

Quantity (2): Every little thing on this area should add to 2. The reply is 5-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (5): Every little thing on this area should add to five. The reply is 5-4, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): Every little thing on this area have to be equal to 4. The reply is 4-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (1): Every little thing on this area should add to 1. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically.

Not Equal: Every little thing on this area have to be totally different. The reply is 5-2, positioned vertically; 6-0, positioned vertically; 3-4, positioned vertically; 5-4, positioned vertically; 1-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (4): Every little thing on this area should add to 4. The reply is 4-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (0): Every little thing on this area should add to 0. The reply is 0-0, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (18): Every little thing on this area should add to 18. The reply is 6-6, positioned vertically; 6-1, positioned vertically.

Quantity (1): Every little thing on this area should add to 1. The reply is 6-1, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): Every little thing on this area should add to 10. The reply is 5-5, positioned vertically.

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