NYT Pips hints, solutions for October 21

Glad Thursday and welcome to your information to Pips, the newest sport 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 might change into your subsequent each day gaming behavior.

At present, for those who’re caught, the sport solely presents to disclose the whole puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent issue stage and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve got you lined! Under are piecemeal solutions that may function hints so that you could discover your approach by way of every issue stage.

Methods 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 conventional sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded situations it’s important to tackle. The touching tiles do not essentially should match.

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

Listed here are widespread examples you will 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 totally totally different variety of pips.

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

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

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

Simple issue hints, solutions for Oct. 21 Pips

Quantity (16): All the things on this house should add to 16. The reply is 6-6, positioned horizontally; 5-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (8): All the things on this house should add to eight. The reply is 5-4, positioned horizontally; 3-0, positioned vertically.

Higher Than (4): All the things on this orange house have to be better than 4. The reply is 3-5, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (2): All the things on this orange house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 3-0, positioned vertically; 1-5, positioned vertically.

Medium issue hints, solutions for Oct. 21 Pips

Equal (3): All the things on this house have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-0, positioned vertically; 3-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (21): All the things on this house should add to 21. The reply is 5-5, positioned horizontally; 5-4, positioned vertically; 6-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (4): All the things on this house should add to 4. The reply is 3-0, positioned vertically; 5-4, positioned vertically; 0-1, positioned vertically.

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Much less Than (3): All the things on this blue house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 6-2, positioned vertically.

Much less Than (3): All the things on this inexperienced house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 0-1, positioned vertically; 1-3, positioned horizontally.

Equal (2): All the things on this house have to be equal to 2. The reply is 3-2, positioned vertically; 2-2, positioned vertically.

Laborious issue hints, solutions for Oct. 21 Pips

Much less Than (2): All the things on this orange house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 6-1, positioned vertically.

Quantity (12): All the things on this house should add to 12. The reply is 6-1, positioned vertically; 6-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (4): All the things on this house should add to 4. The reply is 6-2, positioned horizontally; 2-3, positioned horizontally.

Equal (3): All the things on this house have to be equal to three. The reply is 2-3, positioned horizontally; 3-5, positioned horizontally.

Higher Than (9): All the things on this house have to be better than 9. The reply is 3-5, positioned horizontally; 5-0, positioned vertically.

Much less Than (3): All the things on this blue house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 5-0, positioned vertically.

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

Not Equal: All the things on this house have to be totally different. The reply is 3-4, positioned vertically; 2-0, positioned horizontally; 3-6, positioned vertically; 1-1, positioned horizontally; 2-0, positioned horizontally.

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

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

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

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

Quantity (18): All the things on this house should add to 18. The reply is 6-4, positioned vertically; 3-6, positioned vertically; 6-4, positioned horizontally.

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

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

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