Overview

• Both outlets posted date‑specific answers for Oct. 3 and Oct. 4 covering Easy, Medium, and Difficult tiers, with Forbes supplying step‑by‑step reasoning for the toughest boards.
• Mashable highlighted that the Oct. 3 puzzles leaned heavily on greater‑than and less‑than constraints and provided piece‑by‑piece placements as guided hints.
• For Oct. 4, each site again delivered full solutions, with Mashable characterizing the day’s boards as trickier than they first appear and Forbes offering a complete Difficult‑tier walkthrough.
• Pips is a New York Times Games puzzle launched in August 2025 that refreshes daily across three difficulties and uses color‑coded areas enforcing equality, inequality, totals, and relational rules.
• The ongoing cadence of independent guides underscores a growing solution ecosystem that fills the gap left by the game’s all‑or‑nothing reveal feature.