Forbes and Mashable Publish Fresh Pips Guides for Oct. 21–22, Including Full Solutions and Hard-Tier Walkthroughs

Overview

• Erik Kain at Forbes posted Oct. 22 guidance with solutions for all tiers and a move-by-move Hard walkthrough, noting the Medium and Hard puzzles were especially difficult.
• Mashable’s Oct. 22 update provides piecemeal hints and explicit tile placements for the Oct. 21 puzzles, including exact values and orientations for each region.
• Pips is a New York Times Games puzzle launched in August 2025 that uses domino-like tiles on a color-coded grid with daily Easy, Medium and Hard challenges.
• Both outlets emphasize practical strategies such as counting available pips and locking in constrained total and equals groups to open the rest of the board.
• Ongoing demand for third-party help persists because the app’s built-in hint reveals only the entire solved board rather than incremental clues.