Overview
- Mashable and Hindustan Times posted piecemeal hints and full solutions for the August 25 Easy, Medium, and Hard Pips puzzles.
- Forbes published August 25 solutions and a detailed walkthrough for the Difficult tier, highlighting strategies that start with fixed-value boxes and pip counts.
- Guides for the August 26 puzzles went up early from Forbes and FandomWire, continuing the day-by-day ecosystem of external help.
- Pips, launched in August, is a single‑player, domino‑style logic game with color‑coded constraints across Easy, Medium, and Difficult tiers.
- The game is available via NYT Games and, per Hindustan Times, is included with a New York Times Games subscription, while the in‑game help currently only offers a full puzzle reveal.