To create Pips, I draw on both my childhood memories of those dominoes- and tile-based games and my professional work in puzzles. My Pips puzzle-making process is very analog. I have a set of dominoes ...

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Logic puzzles sometimes, on the surface, might seem like the sort of questions destined for tests in school. I mean, I remember them most when trying to work out sibling order for a challenge. Is This ...

The New York Times unveils Pips, a domino-inspired daily logic puzzle with a global launch, sparking comparisons to Wordle and Sudoku. New York Times launches a new original game, Pips.(nytimes.com) ...

Despite that, or perhaps because of it, The Times only occasionally releases new game offerings—typically one per year. So that makes Monday’s release of Pips, the latest permanent addition to the ...

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Bottom line: More and more AI companies say their models can reason. Two recent studies say otherwise. When asked to show their logic, most models flub the task – proving they're not reasoning so much ...

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