Overview

• The New York Times launched Pips in August 2025 as a domino‑inspired daily logic puzzle with Easy, Medium and Hard tiers using color‑coded placement rules.
• Mashable and Hindustan Times published Sept. 4 guides with piecemeal hints and full answers, mirroring earlier Sept. 3 coverage that explained core mechanics.
• Nerd's Chalk and FandomWire posted detailed walkthroughs for Sept. 4 and Sept. 5, including numbered steps and images across all difficulty levels.
• The in‑game help still reveals the entire completed board rather than offering partial hints, sustaining demand for external, incremental guidance.
• Forbes’ Sept. 5 column described the day’s Medium puzzle as tricky and the Difficult grid as daunting, underscoring recent swings in challenge level.