NYT Pips hints, solutions for October 27

Joyful Monday and welcome to your information to Pips, the newest 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 would turn out to be your subsequent each day gaming behavior.

Presently, if you happen to’re caught, the sport solely provides to disclose the complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent issue degree and begin over. Nevertheless, now we have you coated! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that can function hints so that you could discover your approach by means of every issue degree.

Find out how to play Pips

Should you’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 it’s important to deal with. The touching tiles do not essentially should match.

The circumstances 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 area should add as much as the quantity offered. It’s doable – and customary – for under half a tile to be inside a color-coded area.

Listed here 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 should 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 shade coding, it means there aren’t any circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Simple issue hints, solutions for Oct. 27 Pips

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

Quantity (2): The whole lot on this area should add to 2. The reply is 2-3, positioned vertically.

Quantity (3): The whole lot on this area should add to three. The reply is 3-1, positioned vertically; 2-4, positioned horizontally; 0-3, positioned horizontally.

Equal (3): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to three. The reply is 0-3, positioned horizontally; 2-3, positioned vertically.

Medium issue hints, solutions for Oct. 27 Pips

Much less Than (2): The whole lot on this area have to be lower than 2. The reply is 1-3, positioned horizontally.

Equal (3): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to three. The reply is 1-3, positioned horizontally; 3-4, positioned horizontally.

Equal (4): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to 4. The reply is 3-4, positioned horizontally; 4-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (9): The whole lot on this area should add to 9. The reply is 4-4, positioned vertically; 4-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (2): The whole lot on this area should add to 2. The reply is 5-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (5): The whole lot on this inexperienced area should add to five. The reply is 0-2, positioned horizontally; 5-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (2): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to 2. The reply is 0-2, positioned horizontally; 2-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to three. The reply is 5-2, positioned vertically; 2-3, positioned vertically.

Laborious issue hints, solutions for Oct. 27 Pips

Equal (1): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to 1. The reply is 1-1, positioned horizontally; 1-4, positioned vertically; 1-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (4): The whole lot on this crimson area should add to 4. The reply is 1-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (1): The whole lot on this area should add to 1. The reply is 0-2, positioned horizontally; 1-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (2): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to 2. The reply is 0-2, positioned horizontally; 2-3, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to three. The reply is 1-3, positioned vertically; 2-3, positioned vertically.

Quantity (4): The whole lot on this crimson area should add to 4. The reply is 2-2, positioned vertically.

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

Equal (0): The whole lot on this area have to be equal to 0. The reply is 0-0, positioned vertically; 0-3, positioned horizontally; 0-4, positioned horizontally.

Larger Than (5): The whole lot on this area have to be better than 5. The reply is 0-3, positioned horizontally; 0-4, positioned horizontally.

Should you’re on the lookout for extra puzzles, Mashable’s bought video games now! Try our video games hub for Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and extra.