NYT Pips hints, solutions for October 28

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

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

At present, in case you’re caught, the sport solely provides to disclose all the puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent problem stage and begin over. Nonetheless, we’ve you coated! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that may function hints so as to discover your method by every problem stage.

How you can play Pips

For those who’ve ever performed dominoes, you will 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 conventional sport of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded situations you must tackle. The touching tiles do not essentially need to match.

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

Listed below are frequent 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 should have a very completely different variety of pips.

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

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

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

Simple problem hints, solutions for Oct. 28 Pips

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

Quantity (5): All the things on this inexperienced house should add to five. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically; 3-0, positioned horizontally.

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

Quantity (1): All the things on this house should add to 1. The reply is 1-4, positioned horizontally.

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

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

Medium problem hints, solutions for Oct. 28 Pips

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

Quantity (4): All the things on this crimson house should add to 4. The reply is 4-1, positioned horizontally.

Better Than (4): All the things on this house have to be better than 4. The reply is 5-1, positioned vertically.

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

Equal (1): All the things on this house have to be equal to 1. The reply is 4-1, positioned horizontally; 1-6, positioned vertically; 5-1, positioned vertically; 1-0, positioned vertically.

Quantity (8): All the things on this house should add to eight. The reply is 4-6, positioned vertically; 1-1, positioned vertically.

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

Exhausting problem hints, solutions for Oct. 28 Pips

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

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

Quantity (20): All the things on this house should add to twenty. The reply is 5-6, positioned horizontally; 5-5, positioned horizontally; 4-5, positioned vertically.

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

Quantity (9): All the things on this house should add to 9. The reply is 3-2, positioned vertically; 3-5, positioned horizontally; 1-6, positioned vertically; 0-5, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (20): All the things on this house should add to twenty. The reply is 3-5, positioned horizontally; 4-5, positioned vertically; 0-5, positioned horizontally; 5-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (5): All the things on this house should add to five. The reply is 3-4, positioned horizontally; 5-2, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (17): All the things on this house should add to 17. The reply is 6-2, positioned horizontally; 6-6, positioned horizontally; 3-4, positioned horizontally; 5-1, positioned vertically.

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

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