NYT Pips hints, solutions for November 1

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 grow to be your subsequent each day gaming behavior.

Presently, should you’re caught, the sport solely gives to disclose your complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent problem degree and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve got you coated! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that can function hints to be able to discover your method by way of every problem degree.

The best way to play Pips

In the event you’ve ever performed dominoes, you may 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 principle distinction between a standard recreation of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances you need to tackle. The touching tiles do not essentially must match.

The circumstances you need to meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it gives 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 may 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 very 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 circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Straightforward problem hints, solutions for Nov. 1 Pips

Equal (3): Every little thing on this area have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-3, positioned horizontally; 3-6, positioned horizontally.

Equal (6): Every little thing on this area have to be equal to six. The reply is 3-6, positioned horizontally; 6-5, positioned horizontally.

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

Medium problem hints, solutions for Nov. 1 Pips

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

Quantity (12): Every little thing on this area should add to 12. The reply is 6-6, positioned vertically

Quantity (12): Every little thing on this area should add to 12. The reply is 3-3, positioned vertically; 4-6, positioned vertically.

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

Quantity (5): Every little thing on this area should add to five. The reply is 2-3, positioned vertically; 2-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (6): Every little thing on this area should add to six. The reply is 6-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (1): Every little thing on this area should add to 1. The reply is 2-1, positioned horizontally.

Onerous problem hints, solutions for Nov. 1 Pips

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

Quantity (4): Every little thing on this area should add to 4. The reply is 0-2, positioned horizontally; 6-2, positioned horizontally.

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

Equal (6): Every little thing on this yellow area have to be equal to six. The reply is 6-2, positioned horizontally; 3-6, positioned horizontally; 6-6, positioned horizontally.

Equal (5): Every little thing on this darkish blue area have to be equal to five. The reply is 5-5, positioned horizontally; 5-3, positioned horizontally; 5-4, positioned vertically; 5-2, positioned vertically.

Equal (2): Every little thing on this inexperienced area have to be equal to 2. The reply is 2-1, positioned vertically; 2-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (3): Every little thing on this area should add to three. The reply is 3-4, positioned vertically.

Quantity (1): Every little thing on this area should add to 1. The reply is 2-1, positioned vertically.

Equal (4): Every little thing on this area have to be equal to 4. The reply is 4-4, positioned horizontally; 3-4, positioned vertically; 5-4, positioned vertically.

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

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