News - NYT Puzzles Hints and Answers — Monday, October 6

Today's Pips Credit: NYT Another week spreads out before us, filled to the brim with opportunity should we only reach out and take advantage of it—whatever “it” may be. My plan is to continue to get back into my workout routine. I’m a member of OrangeTheory, a HIIT gym, and the end of October is Hell Week. Each day of Hell Week is a theme and people are encouraged to wear costumes in the spirit of the Halloween season. The classes are all extra challenging, too, and I need to train hard to be ready. I also need to continue keeping my wits sharp, so let’s solve today’s Pips! Looking for Sunday’s Pips? Read our guide right here. How To Play Pips In Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend filling in the grid. You must use every domino and achieve every condition properly to win. There are Easy, Medium and Difficult tiers. Here’s an example of a difficult tier Pips: Pips example Screenshot: Erik Kain MORE FOR YOU As you can see, the grid has a bunch of symbols and numbers with each color. On the far left, the three purple squares must not equal one another (hence the equal sign crossed out). The two pink squares next to that must equal a total of 0. The zig-zagging blue squares all must equal one another. You click on dominoes to rotate them, and will need to since they have to be rotated to fit where they belong. Not shown on this grid are other conditions, such as “less than” or “greater than.” If there are multiple tiles with > or <, the pip in these tiles must be greater than (or less than) the listed number. 6). Despite being a smaller Pips today (the smallest I’ve ever seen for the Hard tier) this is quite challenging! What really threw me off is just figuring out which numbers went in the two = groups and then how to make the other 6 groups work. I tried the 5’s up top, but that didn’t work. I thought maybe the 2’s were up top and the 5’s were below, but that didn’t work either. To solve today’s Pips, begin with the 6/2 domino from Pink 6 into Purple =, then lay the 2/0 domino from Purple 2 into Blue 6. Today's Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Next, slot the 6/5 domino from Blue 6 into Orange 6 and the 1/5 domino from Orange 6 into Dark Blue >6. Today's Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Finally, the 4/6 domino goes from Dark Blue >6 into Green = and the 6/0 goes from Green = up into Blue 6. And we’re done! Today's Pips Screenshot: Erik Kain Maybe it’s just me, but for whatever reason I didn’t expect the Green = block to be 6’s and that made me try out all sorts of other options first. The 6’s everywhere threw me off, or I’m tired. Who knows? Either way, we got it done! Be sure to follow me for all your daily puzzle-solving guides, TV show and movie reviews and more here on this blog! Editorial Standards Reprints & Permissions