NYT Pips hints, solutions for October 4

Joyful Saturday and welcome to your information to Pips, the most recent sport within the New York Instances catalogue.

At present’s video games are tougher than they initially appear, however we’ve all the ideas you might want to navigate them.

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

Presently, when you’re caught, the sport solely presents to disclose all the puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent problem stage and begin over. Nonetheless, we’ve you lined! Under are piecemeal solutions that can function hints so as to discover your means via every problem stage.

The right way to play Pips

In the event 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 primary distinction between a conventional sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded situations it’s important to handle. The touching tiles do not essentially must match.

The situations it’s important to meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it gives a single quantity, each aspect of a tile in that area should add as much as the quantity offered. It’s doable – and customary – for less than half a tile to be inside a color-coded area.

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

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

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

• Not Equal: Each domino half on this area will need to 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.

• Larger 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 situations on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Straightforward problem hints, solutions for Oct. 4 Pips

Quantity (2): All the pieces on this area should add to 2. The reply is 2-4, positioned horizontally

Equal (4): All the pieces on this inexperienced area should be equal to 4. The reply is 2-4, positioned horizontally; 0-4, positioned vertically.

Equal (1): All the pieces on this inexperienced area should be equal to 1. The reply is 1-5, positioned horizontally; 1-0, positioned vertically; 1-1, positioned horizontally.

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

Medium problem hints, solutions for Oct. 4 Pips

Equal (0): All the pieces on this inexperienced area should be equal to 0. The reply is 0-0, positioned horizontally; 0-1, positioned horizontally; 0-2, positioned vertically; 0-5, positioned vertically.

Equal (1): All the pieces on this inexperienced area should be equal to 1. The reply is 0-1, positioned horizontally; 1-2, positioned vertically; 1-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (4): All the pieces on this area should add to 4. The reply is 4-5, positioned horizontally.

Equal (2): All the pieces on this inexperienced area should be equal to 2. The reply is 0-2, positioned horizontally; 1-2, positioned vertically.

Equal (6): All the pieces on this inexperienced area should be equal to six. The reply is 6-6, positioned vertically.

Arduous problem hints, solutions for Oct. 4 Pips

Equal (4): All the pieces on this inexperienced area should be equal to 4. The reply is 4-4, positioned vertically.

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

Much less Than (3): All the pieces on this area should be lower than 3. The reply is 0-0, positioned horizontally; 1-4, positioned vertically.

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

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

Quantity (4): All the pieces on this area should add to 4. The reply is 3-1, positioned vertically; 0-1, positioned vertically; 1-1, positioned horizontally.

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

Quantity (3): All the pieces on this area should add to three. The reply is 2-1, positioned vertically.

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