NYT Pips Hint, Answer & Solution for November 2, 2025

Nov 2, 2025

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🎲 Today's Puzzle Overview

It’s Sunday, November 2, 2025 — time to test your puzzle-solving precision!

Under the editing expertise of Ian Livengood and designed by Rodolfo Kurchan, today’s trio (IDs 258, 266, and 271) offers a perfectly structured logic progression.

The Easy grid teases with balanced sums, the Medium grid adds inequality constraints for sharper reasoning, and the Hard grid pushes logic limits with 14 domino pairs, multiple “equals” regions, and sum challenges reaching 12.

Track your solving times, analyze your strategies, and see how your solutions measure up across all three IDs.

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💡 Progressive Hints

Try these hints one at a time. Each hint becomes more specific to help you solve it yourself!

💡 Hint #1 - Number (2)
The domino halves in this space must be 1.
💡 Hint #1 - Number (10)
Everything in this space must add up to 10. Confirmed by neighboring area and only one domino with 2 pips, the domino halves in this space must be 4+6.
💡 Hint #2 - Number (11)
Confirmed by neighboring area and remaining dominoes and relative position. The domino halves in this space must be 5+6.
💡 Hint #1 - Observe
Only 7 domino halves that contain 1 pips for Light Blue Equal area.
💡 Hint #2 - Green Number (8)
Everything in this space must add up to 8. Confirmed by neighboring area and dominoes with 3 pips, the domino halves in this space must be 2+6.
💡 Hint #3 - Number (12)
The answer is 0-6, placed vertically; 5-6, placed horizontally.
💡 Hint #4 - Number (10)
The domino halves in this space must be 5.

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Nov 2, 2025

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✅ Final Answer & Complete Solution For Hard Level

The key to solving today's hard puzzle was identifying the placement for the critical dominoes highlighted in the starting grid. Once those were in place, the rest of the puzzle could be solved logically. See the final grid below to compare your solution.

Starting Position & Key First Steps

Pips hint for November 2, 2025 – hard level puzzle grid with critical first placements and strategy

This image shows the initial puzzle grid for the hard level, with a few critical first placements highlighted.

Final Answer: The Solved Grid for Hard Mode

NYT Pips November 2, 2025 hard puzzle full solution grid showing final answer with hints

Compare this final grid with your own solution to see the correct placement of all dominoes.

🔧 Step-by-Step Answer Walkthrough For Easy Level

1
Step 1
Based on the image, observe the shapes and domino pip counts.
2
Step 2: Number (2)
Confirmed by neighboring area, the domino halves in this space must be 1. The answer is 1-2, placed horizontally; 1-6, placed vertically.
3
Step 3: Number (12)
Confirmed by neighboring area and remaining dominoes, the domino halves in this space must be 6. The answer is 0-6, placed horizontally; 6-4, placed horizontally.
4
Step 4
Based on the last image, finished.

🔧 Step-by-Step Answer Walkthrough For Medium Level

1
Step 1
Based on the image, observe the shapes and domino pip counts.
2
Step 2: Number (10)
Everything in this space must add up to 10. Confirmed by neighboring area and only one domino with 2 pips, the domino halves in this space must be 4+6. The answer is 4-2, placed vertically; 6-1, placed horizontally.
3
Step 3: Blue Number (11)
Everything in this space must add up to 11. Confirmed by neighboring area and remaining dominoes and relative position. The domino halves in this space must be 5+6. The answer is 6-6, placed vertically.
4
Step 4: Yellow Number (11)
Everything in this space must add up to 11. Confirmed by neighboring area and remaining dominoes and relative position. The domino halves in this space must be 5+6. The answer is 5-1, placed horizontally; 6-4, placed vertically.
5
Step 5
Based on the last image, finished.

🔧 Step-by-Step Answer Walkthrough For Hard Level

1
Step 1
Based on the image, observe the shapes and domino pip counts. Only 7 domino halves that contain 1 pips for Light Blue Equal area.
2
Step 2: Green Number (8)
Everything in this space must add up to 8. Confirmed by neighboring area and dominoes with 3 pips, the domino halves in this space must be 2+6. The answer is 3-2, placed vertically; 1-6, placed horizontally.
3
Step 3: Number (12)
The domino halves in this space must be 6. Confirmed by neighboring area and remaining dominoes, the answer is 0-6, placed vertically; 5-6, placed horizontally.
4
Step 4: Number (10)
Everything in this space must add up to 10. Confirmed by neighboring area and relative position and remaining dominoes.No domino with the same number 0-0. The domino halves in this space must be 5. The answer is 0-5, placed horizontally; 1-5, placed vertically.
5
Step 5: Light Blue Equal
The domino halves in this space must be 1. Confirmed by neighboring area and relative position and remaining dominoes. The answer is 0-1, placed horizontally; 1-1, placed vertically.
6
Step 6: Number (6)
Everything in this space must add up to 6. Confirmed by neighboring area and remaining dominoes. The domino halves in this space must be 3. The answer is 3-1, placed horizontally; 3-0, placed vertically.
7
Step 7: Red Number (8)
Everything in this space must add up to 8. Confirmed by neighboring area and remaining dominoes. The domino halves in this space must be 4. The answer is 1-4, placed horizontally; 0-4, placed horizontally.
8
Step 8
Based on the last image, finished.

💡 Pro Tips for Similar Puzzles

Start with Constraints
Always begin with the most constrained regions - sum regions with small numbers or tight spaces.
Use Equal Regions
Use "equal" regions as anchors - they eliminate many possibilities quickly.
Work Systematically
Let the rules guide your placement rather than guessing randomly.
Double-Check
Verify each region's rules are satisfied before moving to the next.

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