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Welcome to your guide to Pips, the latest game in the New York Times catalogue.

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit.

Currently, if you're stuck, the game only offers to reveal the entire puzzle, forcing you to move onto the next difficulty level and start over. However, we have you



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Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you're a giver.

Strands, the New York Times' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an answer. There's



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The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult to solve if you're fashionable.

Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints


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Today's Connections: Sports Edition will be easier if you know aquaticsports.

As we've shared in previous hints stories, this is a version of the popular New York Times word game that seeks to test the knowledge of sports fans.

Like the original Connections, the game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle, Connections resets after midnight and each new set of


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Side by side with Elon Musk (L) and Jeffrey Epstein
  • Elon Musk discussed plans to visit Jeffrey Epstein's Caribbean island, newly released emails show.
  • Musk, who previously said he "refused" Epstein's invitations, responded to the revelations on X.
  • The files show Epstein repeatedly requesting to meet with Musk.

In November 2012, Jeffrey Epstein emailed Elon Musk about




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Bill Gates, Jeffrey Epstein
  • Bill Gates on Friday called the claims in the Epstein documents "completely false."
  • A 2013 email from Epstein to himself made lurid claims about the Microsoft founder.
  • Melinda French Gates, Bill's ex-wife, has said his ties to Epstein contributed to their divorce.

Bill Gates, through a spokesperson, issued a strongly worded


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Thousands of protesters in Minneapolis protested ICE on January 31.
  • Many small businesses struggled to observe a nationwide general strike to protest ICE.
  • A boycott of Big Tech and AI would be easier and more effective, Scott Galloway says.
  • Galloway is calling on Americans to "unsubscribe" and "opt out" in February.

Economic boycotts are a familiar




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NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters that the company will "invest a great deal of money" in OpenAI's latest funding round, according to Bloomberg, after The Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that the two companies were rethinking a previous $100 billion deal that hasn't "progressed beyond the early stages" of negotiations. Speaking to reporters in Taipei this weekend, Huang reportedly said


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