NYT Pips hints, solutions for October 10

Comfortable Friday and welcome to your information to Pips, the newest sport within the New York Instances catalogue.

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

At the moment, if you happen to’re caught, the sport solely presents to disclose your entire puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent problem stage and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve you lined! Under are piecemeal solutions that can function hints to be able to discover your approach by way of every problem stage.

Easy methods to play Pips

In the event you’ve ever performed dominoes, you may 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 principle distinction between a standard sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded situations it’s a must to deal with. The touching tiles do not essentially should match.

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

Listed here are frequent examples you may run into throughout the problem 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 will need to have a very completely 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 coloration coding, it means there aren’t any situations on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Simple problem hints, solutions for Oct. 10 Pips

Quantity (3): Every thing on this pink house should add to three. The reply is 1-1, positioned horizontally; 1-4, positioned horizontally.

Equal (4): Every thing on this pink house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 1-4, positioned horizontally; 4-4, positioned vertically.

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

Medium problem hints, solutions for Oct. 10 Pips

Much less Than (4): Every thing on this house have to be lower than 4. The reply is 3-6, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): Every thing on this house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 4-1, positioned horizontally; 4-5, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (4): Every thing on this house have to be lower than 4. The reply is 4-1, positioned horizontally.

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Much less Than (4): Every thing on this house have to be lower than 4. The reply is 2-5, positioned vertically.

Equal (6): Every thing on this house have to be equal to six. The reply is 3-6, positioned vertically; 6-6, positioned vertically; 6-4, positioned horizontally.

Not Equal: Every thing on this house have to be completely different. The reply is 6-4, positioned horizontally; 3-0, positioned vertically; 3-2, positioned horizontally.

Equal (5): Every thing on this house have to be equal to five. The reply is 4-5, positioned horizontally; 2-5, positioned vertically; 5-5, positioned vertically; 5-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (0): Every thing on this house should add to 0. The reply is 3-0, positioned vertically; 5-0, positioned vertically.

Laborious problem hints, solutions for Oct. 10 Pips

Quantity (18): Every thing on this house should add to 18. The reply is 6-6, positioned vertically; 6-5, positioned vertically.

Equal (2): Every thing on this house have to be equal to 2. The reply is 6-2, positioned vertically; 2-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): Every thing on this house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 4-1, positioned vertically; 4-4, positioned horizontally; 4-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (5): Every thing on this house should add to five. The reply is 4-1, positioned vertically; 4-3, positioned vertically.

Quantity (10): Every thing on this house should add to 10. The reply is 5-4, positioned vertically; 6-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (0): Every thing on this house should add to 0. The reply is 4-0, positioned vertically; 0-0, positioned vertically; 5-0, positioned vertically.

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

Equal (3): Every thing on this house have to be equal to three. The reply is 1-3, positioned vertically; 3-3, positioned vertically; 2-3, positioned vertically; 3-5, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): Every thing on this house have to be equal to three. The reply is 4-3, positioned vertically; 3-6, positioned vertically.

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

Quantity (5): Every thing on this house should add to five. The reply is 3-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (11): Every thing on this house should add to 11. The reply is 3-6, positioned vertically; 5-0, positioned horizontally.

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