NYT Pips hints, solutions for November 2

Welcome to your information to Pips, the most recent 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 would develop into your subsequent each day gaming behavior.

At the moment, in the event you’re caught, the sport solely affords to disclose the whole puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent problem degree and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve you lined! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that can function hints so as to discover your manner via every problem degree.

The way to play Pips

When 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 principle distinction between a standard sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances it’s important to handle. The touching tiles do not essentially must match.

The circumstances 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 supplied. It’s doable – and customary – for less than half a tile to be inside a color-coded area.

Listed here are widespread 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.

• Higher 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 problem hints, solutions for Nov. 1 Pips

Quantity (10): Every little thing on this area should add to 10. The reply is 5-5, positioned horizontally; 0-6, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (12): Every little thing on this area should add to 12. The reply is 0-6, positioned horizontally; 6-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (2): Every little thing on this gentle blue area should add to 2. The reply is 1-2, positioned horizontally; 1-6, positioned vertically.

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

Medium problem hints, solutions for Nov. 1 Pips

Quantity (10): Every little thing on this area should add to 10. The reply is 4-2, positioned vertically; 6-1, positioned horizontally.

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

Quantity (11): Every little thing on this area should add to 11. The reply is 5-1, positioned horizontally; 6-4, positioned vertically.

Higher Than (4): Every little thing on this area have to be larger than 4. The reply is 6-6, positioned vertically.

Much less Than (4): Every little thing on this area have to be lower than 4. The reply is 6-1, positioned horizontally; 4-1, positioned vertically; 5-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (11): Every little thing on this area should add to 11. The reply is 6-6, positioned vertically; 5-4, positioned vertically.

Laborious problem hints, solutions for Nov. 1 Pips

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

Quantity (8): Every little thing on this area should add to eight. The reply is 1-4, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (3): Every little thing on this area should add to three. The reply is 3-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (8): Every little thing on this area should add to eight. The reply is 3-2, positioned vertically; 1-6, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (6): Every little thing on this area should add to six. The reply is 3-0, positioned vertically; 3-1, positioned horizontally.

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

Equal (1): Every little thing on this area have to be equal to 1. The reply is 1-4, positioned horizontally; 1-1, positioned vertically; 3-1, positioned horizontally; 1-6, positioned horizontally; 0-1, positioned horizontally; 1-5, positioned vertically; 0-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (10): Every little thing on this area should add to 10. The reply is 0-5, positioned horizontally; 1-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (0): Every little thing on this purple area should add to 0. The reply is 0-1, positioned horizontally; 0-5, positioned horizontally; 0-6, positioned vertically.

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

Higher Than (4): Every little thing on this area have to be larger than 4. The reply is 5-6, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (12): Every little thing on this area should add to 12. The reply is 5-6, positioned horizontally; 0-6, positioned vertically

Quantity (8): Every little thing on this area should add to eight. The reply is 2-4, positioned vertically; 4-6, positioned horizontally.

Higher Than (4): Every little thing on this gentle blue area have to be larger than 4. The reply is 4-6, positioned horizontally.

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