NYT Pips hints, solutions for September 29

Completely happy Saturday and welcome to your information to Pips, the most recent recreation 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 into your subsequent each day gaming behavior.

Presently, should you’re caught, the sport solely gives to disclose your entire puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent problem degree and begin over. Nevertheless, now we have you coated! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that may function hints as a way to discover your manner via every problem degree.

The best way to play Pips

For those who’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 standard recreation of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances you must handle. The touching tiles do not essentially must match.

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

Listed below 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 will need to have a totally completely 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 coloration coding, it means there aren’t any circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Straightforward problem hints, solutions for Sept. 29 Pips

Higher Than (3): All the things on this area have to be larger than 3. The reply is 4-1, positioned horizontally.

Equal (1): All the things on this area have to be equal to 1. The reply is 1-4, positioned horizontally; 1-1, positioned vertically; 1-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (0): All the things on this area should add to 0. The reply is 1-0, positioned vertically; 0-3, positioned horizontally.

Higher Than (2): All the things on this area have to be larger than 2. The reply is 0-3, positioned horizontally.

Medium problem hints, solutions for Sept. 29 Pips

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

Higher Than (4): All the things on this area have to be larger than 4. The reply is 6-4, positioned horizontally.

Equal (4): All the things on this crimson area have to be equal to 4. The reply is 6-4, positioned horizontally; 4-0, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (2): All the things on this area have to be lower than 2. The reply is 4-0, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (3): All the things on this blue area should add to five. The reply is 3-0, positioned vertically.

Equal (5): All the things on this inexperienced area have to be equal to five. The reply is 5-5, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): All the things on this purple area have to be equal to six. The reply is 4-4, positioned vertically; 2-4, positioned vertically.

Laborious problem hints, solutions for Sept. 29 Pips

Quantity (6): All the things on this area should add to six. The reply is 3-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (2): All the things on this area should add to 2. The reply is 1-0, positioned horizontally; 1-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (3): All the things on this area should add to three. The reply is 6-1, positioned vertically; 1-1, positioned horizontally.

Equal (5): All the things on this crimson area have to be equal to five. The reply is 4-5, positioned horizontally; 5-5 positioned vertically; 5-5, positioned horizontally; 5-2, positioned horizontally; 5-6, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (0): All the things on this area should add to 0. The reply is 1-0, positioned horizontally.

Equal (3): All the things on this darkish blue area have to be equal to three. The reply is 1-3, horizontally; 3-5, positioned vertically; 4-3, positioned vertically.

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

Quantity (2): All the things on this area should add to 2. The reply is 5-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (18): All the things on this area should add to 18. The reply is 5-6, positioned horizontally; 6-6, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (0): All the things on this area should add to 0. The reply is 5-0, positioned horizontally; 0-0, positioned vertically.

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