NYT Pips hints, solutions for October 2

Completely happy Tuesday and welcome to your information to Pips, the newest sport within the New York Instances catalogue.

At this time’s video games characteristic issue ranges that dial up the problem shortly, however we’ve all the information you could navigate them.

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

Presently, when you’re caught, the sport solely gives to disclose your entire puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent issue stage and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve you coated! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that can function hints so as to discover your approach by every issue stage.

Easy methods to play Pips

In case 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 sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded situations you must handle. The touching tiles do not essentially must match.

The situations you must 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 offered. It’s attainable – and customary – for less than half a tile to be inside a color-coded area.

Listed below are frequent examples you will run into throughout the issue 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 completely 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 coloration coding, it means there are not any situations on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Simple issue hints, solutions for Oct. 2 Pips

Much less Than (2): Every part on this area have to be lower than 2. The reply is 0-2, positioned horizontally.

Not Equal: Every part on this area have to be completely different. The reply is 0-2, positioned horizontally; 4-2, positioned horizontally; 5-1, positioned vertically.

Quantity (1): Every part on this area should add to 1. The reply is 5-1, positioned vertically.

Equal (3): Every part on this inexperienced area have to be equal to three. The reply is 3-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (2): Every part on this area should add to 1. The reply is 2-6, positioned vertically.

Quantity (12): Every part on this area should add to 12. The reply is 1-6, positioned horizontally.

Medium issue hints, solutions for Oct. 2 Pips

Higher Than (4): Every part on this area have to be higher than 4. The reply is 5-3, positioned horizontally.

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Not Equal: Every part on this area have to be completely different. The reply is 5-3, positioned horizontally; 0-2, positioned vertically; 4-1, positioned horizontally.

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

Quantity (2): Every part on this area should add to 2. The reply is 0-2, positioned vertically; 0-1, positioned vertically.

Quantity (4): Every part on this area should add to 4. The reply is 0-1, positioned vertically; 3-1, positioned vertically.

Laborious issue hints, solutions for Oct. 2 Pips

Quantity (4): Every part on this area should add to 4. The reply is 4-3, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (3): Every part on this orange area should add to three. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically; 5-2, positioned vertically.

Quantity (3): Every part on this inexperienced area should add to three. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically; 1-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (3): Every part on this gentle blue area should add to three. The reply is 4-3, positioned horizontally; 1-0, positioned vertically.

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

Higher Than (3): Every part on this area have to be higher than 3. The reply is 4-5, positioned vertically.

Equal (5): Every part on this pink area have to be equal to five. The reply is 5-2, positioned vertically; 4-5, positioned vertically; 5-5, positioned vertically.

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

Much less Than (3): Every part on this purple area have to be lower than 3. The reply is 4-2, positioned vertically.

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

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

Quantity (1): Every part on this darkish blue area should add to 1. The reply is 0-0, positioned vertically; 1-1, positioned vertically.

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

Quantity (12): Every part on this area should add to 12. The reply is 4-6, positioned vertically; 6-1, positioned horizontally.

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

Much less Than (4): Every part on this area have to be lower than 3. The reply is 6-1, positioned horizontally.

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