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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…

Today’s Connections: Sports Edition will be easier if you know team names. 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.”…

Do you need a little Christmas? Right this very minute? Then we recommend you head to Netflix, where an array of holiday movies are present and ready to be unwrapped. This winter, the streaming service has a festive lineup perfect for whiling away the chilly days and nights at home or picking up your mood…

Christmas movies are about shameless joy, uninhibited sweetness, and guaranteed happy endings. We don’t always have to be challenged. We don’t always have to learn more about the human condition. Sometimes we just want to be happy, and this list of yuletide films, from the classics to the unconventional, are sure to spark that cozy…

Some people get in the mood for the holidays by decorating a tree, baking cookies, or venturing out to look at houses draped in thousands of string lights. Others just pop on a Christmas movie to get into the spirit.  Whether you’re planning a mega holiday movie marathon, yearning for an old classic, or trying…

What is the best laptop of 2025? My answer ultimately boils down to your operating system preference: Windows or Mac? As of December 2025, I think the 15-inch Apple MacBook Air (M4) is the best MacBook for most people. It’s a sleek-as-ever notebook featuring impressive performance, open-lid support for two external displays, a great 12MP…