NYT Pips hints, solutions for September 28

Completely happy Saturday and welcome to your information to Pips, the newest recreation within the New York Occasions catalogue.

Launched in August 2025, the Pips places a novel spin on dominoes, making a enjoyable single-player expertise that would change into your subsequent each day gaming behavior.

Presently, should you’re caught, the sport solely provides to disclose the complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent problem stage and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve got you lined! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that can function hints with the intention to discover your means by every problem stage.

The way to play Pips

When you’ve ever performed dominoes, you will have a passing familiarity for a 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 principle distinction between a conventional recreation of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances it’s a must to deal with. The touching tiles do not essentially should match.

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

Listed below are widespread examples you will run into throughout the issue ranges:

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

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

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

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

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

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

Simple problem hints, solutions for Sept. 28 Pips

Better Than (4): All the pieces on this house have to be better than 4. The reply is 5-4, positioned vertically.

Not Equal: All the pieces on this house have to be totally different. The reply is 5-4, positioned vertically; 2-4, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (2): All the pieces on this house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 3-1, positioned horizontally.

Equal (3): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-3, positioned vertically; 3-1, positioned horizontally.

Medium problem hints, solutions for Sept. 28 Pips

Equal (5): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to five. The reply is 5-4, positioned horizontally; 5-5, positioned vertically; 5-6, positioned horizontally.

Equal (4): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 5-4, positioned horizontally; 4-1, positioned vertically.

Quantity (2): All the pieces on this orange house should add to 2. The reply is 4-1, positioned vertically; 1-6, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (6): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to six. The reply is 5-6, positioned horizontally; 1-6, positioned vertically; 6-6, positioned vertically; 6-0, positioned horizontally; 6-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (0): All the pieces on this house should add to 0. The reply is 6-0, positioned horizontally; 0-1, positioned vertically.

Exhausting problem hints, solutions for Sept. 28 Pips

Equal (1): All the pieces on this house have to be equal to 1. The reply is 1-1, positioned vertically; 1-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): All the pieces on this house should add to 10. The reply is 1-5, positioned horizontally; 5-0, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (0): All the pieces on this house should add to 0. The reply is 0-3, positioned vertically; 5-0, positioned horizontally; 0-6, positioned vertically.

Better Than (4): All the pieces on this house have to be better than 4. The reply is 0-6, positioned vertically

Quantity (5): All the pieces on this house should add to five. The reply is 1-3, positioned horizontally; 2-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): All the pieces on this house should add to 10. The reply is 2-4, positioned vertically; 6-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): All the pieces on this house should add to 10. The reply is 6-6, positioned vertically; 4-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (0): All the pieces on this house should add to 0. The reply is 4-0, positioned vertically; 0-0, positioned horizontally; 0-2, positioned horizontally; 1-0, positioned horizontally.

Better Than (1): All the pieces on this house have to be better than 1. The reply is 0-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (9): All the pieces on this house should add to 9. The reply is 0-3, positioned vertically; 3-3, positioned vertically.

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