NYT Pips hints, solutions for October 9

Blissful Thursday and welcome to your information to Pips, the newest recreation within the New York Instances catalogue.

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

Presently, in the event you’re caught, the sport solely affords to disclose your entire puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the following issue stage and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve got you coated! Beneath are piecemeal solutions that may function hints in an effort to discover your approach by means of every issue stage.

How you can play Pips

When you’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 recreation of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances it’s important to handle. 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 house should add as much as the quantity supplied. It’s doable – and customary – for under half a tile to be inside a color-coded house.

Listed below are widespread examples you will run into throughout the issue 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 totally totally different variety of pips.

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

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

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

Simple issue hints, solutions for Oct. 9 Pips

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

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

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

Quantity (8): All the things on this gentle blue house should add to eight. The reply is 1-5, positioned; 3-5, positioned vertically.

Medium issue hints, solutions for Oct. 9 Pips

Quantity (10): All the things on this house should add to 10. The reply is 5-0, positioned horizontally; 5-4, positioned horizontally.

Larger Than (3): All the things on this house have to be better than 3. The reply is 6-4, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (2): All the things on this house have to be lower than 2. The reply is 1-4, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (3): All the things on this house have to be lower than 3. The reply is 2-4, positioned horizontally.

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

Equal (4): All the things on this house have to be equal to 4. The reply is 5-4, positioned horizontally; 6-4, positioned horizontally; 1-4, positioned horizontally; 2-4, positioned horizontally; 3-4, positioned horizontally; 0-4, positioned horizontally; 4-4, positioned horizontally.

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

Onerous issue hints, solutions for Oct. 9 Pips

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

Quantity (12): All the things on this house should add to 12. The reply is 0-6, positioned vertically; 6-1, positioned vertically.

Equal (1): All the things on this gentle blue house have to be equal to 1. The reply is 0-1, positioned vertically; 1-1, positioned vertically; 6-1, positioned vertically; 1-2, positioned vertically; 1-3, positioned vertically; 1-4, positioned vertically; 1-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (0): All the things on this house should add to 0. The reply is 4-0, positioned vertically.

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

Equal (3): All the things on this orange house have to be equal to three. The reply is 6-3, positioned vertically; 3-3, positioned vertically; 3-2, positioned vertically.

Equal (2): All the things on this darkish blue house have to be equal to 2. The reply is 1-2, positioned vertically; 2-5, positioned horizontally; 3-2, positioned horizontally.

Equal (5): All the things on this purple house have to be equal to five. The reply is 2-5, positioned horizontally; 1-5, positioned vertically; 5-5, positioned horizontally; 4-5, positioned vertically.

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