These are the hints for the Tuesday, October 28, 2025 NYT Pips puzzle, edition #72. Choose your difficulty below: each level is a separate board, and the clues start gently before giving away the key deduction. The available text sources establish starting hints, but not a verified full tile-by-tile arrangement, so no unsupported placement is presented as an answer.
How to use these Pips hints
NYT Pips is a domino-placement logic puzzle. Each tile has two values, from 0 through 6, and each half occupies one cell. Board regions impose rules such as an exact sum, equal values, all different values, or a sum above or below a threshold. Place tiles to fill every cell while meeting the rule for each cell’s region. A domino can cross a region boundary: each half is judged by the rule in the cell it occupies.
Pick the board you are solving, then reveal only the hint you need. The counts and deductions below are from EnergyPips’ October 28, 2025 archive entry, “Pips October 28, 2025 — Puzzle #72.”
| Difficulty | Board size | Dominoes | Regions | Best starting clue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy | 8 cells | 4 | 3 | Three-cell region totaling 6 |
| Medium | 14 cells | 7 | 6 | Single-cell region totaling 0 |
| Hard | 20 cells | 10 | 7 | Three-cell region totaling 5 |
Easy hints
Hint 1
Start with the region containing three cells and requiring an exact total of 6. Consider what that total implies for the average value in the region.
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Hint 2
The three values must average 2. That narrows the possible values, but does not by itself determine a unique combination or tell you which domino halves go where. Use the neighboring cells and remaining tile values to test placements.
Medium hints
Hint 1
Begin with the region made up of one cell and requiring a total of 0.
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Hint 2
That cell must contain a zero-valued half. Identify which available dominoes can supply one, then check the other half against the rule for its own cell—especially if the domino crosses into another region.
Hard hints
Hint 1
Look first at the three-cell region with an exact total of 5. It is a tighter starting point than the board’s other constraints.
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Hint 2
The average across those three cells is about 1.7, so their values must be low overall. The hard board also includes exact-sum, less-than, and all-different regions; keep each rule attached to its own cells as you test candidates.
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The date-specific text available for this puzzle identifies the boards and their opening deductions, but it does not provide a readable, verified tile-by-tile arrangement. Nerd’s Chalk’s October 28 guide covers all three levels with visual walkthroughs, but its placements are shown in images rather than readable text. For that reason, these hints stop at deductions supported by the sources instead of guessing a completed layout.
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EnergyPips describes its displayed arrangement as a generated valid solution and notes that looser boards may allow alternatives. Treat any published arrangement as one valid solution unless uniqueness has been established; community reports of multiple hard-board solutions are anecdotal, not proof.
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