NYT Pips hints, solutions for September 30

Completely satisfied Tuesday and welcome to your information to Pips, the newest recreation within the New York Occasions catalogue.

Right now’s video games function issue ranges that dial up the problem shortly, however we’ve all the ideas you should navigate them.

Launched in August 2025, the Pips places a singular spin on dominoes, making a enjoyable single-player expertise that might turn out to be your subsequent day by day gaming behavior.

Presently, in the event you’re caught, the sport solely gives to disclose your complete puzzle, forcing you to maneuver onto the subsequent issue degree and begin over. Nevertheless, we’ve you coated! Under are piecemeal solutions that may function hints to be able to discover your manner by way of every issue degree.

The right way to play Pips

When you’ve ever performed dominoes, you may 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 recreation of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded circumstances you must handle. The touching tiles do not essentially must match.

The circumstances you must meet are particular to the color-coded areas. For instance, if it offers 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 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 totally completely 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 colour coding, it means there aren’t any circumstances on the parts of dominoes inside these areas.

Simple issue hints, solutions for Sept. 30 Pips

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

Larger Than (4): Every thing on this area have to be completely different. The reply is 5-3, positioned horizontally.

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

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

Medium issue hints, solutions for Sept. 30 Pips

Much less Than (3): Every thing on this area have to be lower than 3. The reply is 0-1, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (8): Every thing on this area should add to eight. The reply is 6-4, positioned vertically; 0-1, positioned horizontally; 1-3, positioned vertically; 2-5, positioned vertically.

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Quantity (10): Every thing on this area should add to 10. The reply is 2-5, positioned vertically; 5-0, positioned horizontally.

Much less Than (5): Every thing on this area have to be lower than 5. The reply is 1-3, positioned vertically.

Arduous issue hints, solutions for Sept. 30 Pips

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

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

Larger Than (3): Every thing on this area have to be higher than 3. The reply is 1-5, positioned vertically.

Quantity (5): Every thing on this area should add as much as 5. The reply is 5-3, positioned vertically.

Quantity (3): Every thing on this area should add to three. The reply is 5-3, positioned vertically.

Quantity (6): Every thing on this area should add to six. he reply is 1-6, positioned horizontally.

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

Equal (1): Every thing on this darkish blue area have to be equal to 1. The reply is 1-1, positioned vertically.

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

Much less Than (5): Every thing on this area have to be lower than 5. The reply is 2-1, positioned vertically; 3-3, positioned vertically.

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

Larger Than (4): Every thing on this area have to be completely different. The reply is 5-5, positioned horizontally.

Quantity (17): Every thing on this area should add to 17. The reply is 6-6, positioned horizontally; 5-5, positioned horizontally.

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

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

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

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