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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 covered! Below are piecemeal answers that will serve as hints so that you can find your way through each difficulty level.

How to play Pips

If you've ever played dominoes, you'll have a passing familiarity for how Pips is played. As we've shared in our previous hints stories for Pips, the tiles, like dominoes, are placed vertically or horizontally and connect with each other. The main difference between a traditional game of dominoes and Pips is the color-coded conditions you have to address. The touching tiles don't necessarily have to match.

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The conditions you have to meet are specific to the color-coded spaces. For example, if it provides a single number, every side of a tile in that space must add up to the number provided. It is possible – and common – for only half a tile to be within a color-coded space.

Here are common examples you'll run into across the difficulty levels:

• Number: All the pips in this space must add up to the number.

• Equal: Every domino half in this space must be the same number of pips.

• Not Equal: Every domino half in this space must have a completely different number of pips.

• Less than: Every domino half in this space must add up to less than the number.

• Greater than: Every domino half in this space must add up to more than the number.

If an area does not have any color coding, it means there are no conditions on the portions of dominoes within those spaces.

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Number (0): Everything in this space must add to 0. The answer is 0-2, placed horizontally.

Number (0): Everything in this space must add to 0. The answer is 0-5, placed horizontally.

Equal (2): Everything in this space must be equal to 2. The answer is 0-2, placed horizontally; 2-3, placed horizontally; 2-2, placed horizontally.

Medium difficulty hints, answers for Nov. 3 Pips

Number (10): Everything in this space must add to 10. The answer is 3-5, placed horizontally; 4-1, placed vertically; 3-1, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this red space must add to 5. The answer is 5-5, placed vertically; 0-0, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this light blue space must add to 5. The answer is 5-1, placed vertically; 0-0, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this orange space must add to 5. The answer is 4-1, placed vertically; 3-1, placed vertically; 5-1, placed vertically; 1-1, placed horizontally.

Hard difficulty hints, answers for Nov. 3 Pips

Number (1): Everything in this space must add to 1. The answer is 1-1, placed horizontally.

Number (4): Everything in this space must add to 4. The answer is 4-4, placed vertically.

Number (2): Everything in this space must add to 2. The answer is 2-2, placed horizontally.

Number (3): Everything in this space must add to 3. The answer is 3-3 is placed horizontally.

Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 2-5, placed horizontally.

Less Than (2): Everything in this space must be less than 2. The answer is 1-0, placed horizontally.

Less Than (1): Everything in this space must be less than 1. The answer is 1-0, placed horizontally.

Not Equal: Everything in this space must be different. The answer is 1-1, placed horizontally; 6-5, placed horizontally; 4-4, placed vertically; 2-2, placed horizontally; 3-3, placed horizontally.

Greater Than (16): Everything in this space must be greater than 16. The answer is 6-5, placed horizontally; 2-5, placed horizontally; 6-3, placed horizontally.

Equal (3): Everything in this space must be equal to 3. The answer is 6-3, placed horizontally; 3-0, placed vertically.

Number (5): Everything in this space must add to 5. The answer is 0-5, placed vertically.

Less Than (3): Everything in this space must be less than 3. The answer is 2-1, placed horizontally.

Less Than (2): Everything in this space must be less than 2. The answer is 2-1, placed horizontally.

Less Than (1): Everything in this space must be less than 1. The answer is 3-0, placed vertically.

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The Mini is a bite-sized version of The New York Times' revered daily crossword. While the crossword is a lengthier experience that requires both knowledge and patience to complete, The Mini is an entirely different vibe.

With only a handful of clues to answer, the daily puzzle doubles as a speed-running test for many who play it.

So, when a tricky clue disrupts a player's flow, it can be frustrating! If you find yourself stumped playing The Mini — much like with Wordle and Connections — we have you covered.

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Here are the clues and answers to NYT's The Mini for Monday, Nov. 3, 2025:

AcrossOn the ___ (using Tinder or Bumble)

• The answer is Apps.

Color of the second-hardest Connections category

• The answer is Blue.

Prepare, as a Thanksgiving turkey

• The answer is Carve.

Have to have

• The answer is Need.

Camper's construction

• The answer is Tent.

DownKimmel's channel

• The answer is ABC.

Audience member who's in on the magic trick

• The answer is Plant.

Many a baby food

• The answer is Puree.

Typical number of objects that humans can hold in working memory, hence phone numbers

• The answer is Seven.

Summer hrs. in N.Y.C.

• The answer is EDT.

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Some gifts aren't just thoughtful — they're unforgettable. We've curated a selection of luxurious, high-impact gifts that will wow your loved ones this holiday. From cutting-edge tech to timeless keepsakes, these splurge-worthy gifts go above and beyond.

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In retrospect, the collision of Lynne Ramsay and Jennifer Lawrence seems fated. The Scottish filmmaker forged her reputation with character-driven dramas like Morvern Callar, We Need to Talk About Kevin, and You Were Never Really Here. Her films — often led by critically heralded performers — push audiences to uncomfortable emotional spaces of desire, rage, and grief. Meanwhile, the American actress broke through with such a drama, Debra Granik's riveting Winter's Bone, which earned Lawrence her first Oscar nod. Then, she rose to stardom by embracing roles of women on the edge in The Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle, and Mother! 

Through this lens, Die My Love seems inevitable, but that doesn't make it any less remarkable. Ramsay and Lawrence's powers combine to create a ruthlessly savage portrait of female desire and wrath. The result is something feral and bloody fantastic. 

Die My Love is a stirring drama in the vein of Hedda Gabler.  Jennifer Lawrence as Grace in "Die My Love." Credit: Kimberley French / MUBI

Adapted from Ariana Harwicz's novel of the same name, Die My Love focuses on a young mother named Grace (Lawrence), who struggles within the confines of her seemingly settled life. (Hedda, can you hear her?) In the screenplay by Ramsay, Alice Birch, and Enda Walsh, the film begins with Grace and her partner, Jackson (Robert Pattinson), pulling his pick-up truck up to the family home that has been passed down to them, ahead of the birth of their first child. 

Cinematographer Seamus McGarvey resolutely sets the camera statically inside the house, which is littered with leaves as if it's been nearly forgotten. From this wide shot, we can see the couple arrive through an open door. We hear their excited chatter and finally see them come into the building, bringing life with them. Grace, in a silky red skirt, practically blooms as she enters a room. And before they even sweep the floors, she's pinned Jackson to them, naked and christening the place as theirs. 

Their lovemaking isn't the standard stuff of Hollywood movies, all soft lighting and carefully revealed flesh. Instead, Die My Love delivers a frank and carnal sex scene. Grace claws at Jackson like a predatory cat. It's with this same intensity she will later crawl on all four through their sprawling wilderness of a lawn or paw into her own panties as their fever for each other cools.

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Swiftly through physicality, Lawrence and Ramsay establish the intensity of Grace, which will not be shrunk by her role as wife or mother. So, when work pulls Jackson away from the house, leaving Grace to their baby and herself, she begins to spiral in search of who she has become in this circumstance. And her rage, even at its most extreme, is achingly relatable. 

Having recently seen Hedda, it was easy to see a line of shared vexation between these two anti-heroines. Where their families, lovers, and society would happily shove them into placid roles of feminine domesticity, their spirits rage against such flattening of their lives. In response, both react wildly — though Grace is less strategic than Hedda. 

Jennifer Lawrence is on fire in Die My Love. Jennifer Lawrence and Nick Nolte dance in "Die My Love." Credit: Kimberley French / MUBI

Grace's passions push her to explode, sometimes in outbursts of joyful dancing or spirited song, sometimes in vicious words or violence. Within the film, characters sympathetically diagnose Grace with postpartum depression. But even this feels like a box to confine her. 

Lawrence throws herself fearlessly into Grace's mental breakdown. She laughs, screams, flails, and fights with an electrifying abandon. She's so achingly alive onscreen that Pattinson, renowned for his onscreen intensity, withers beside her, which suits their characters' dynamic. Jackson seems intoxicated by Grace's free spirit, but also infuriated he can't pin her down as she might him. From their increasing animosity, tension churns this domestic drama into a thriller, because something has got to give. 

And yet, as fiery as Lawrence gets — bearing her body, yearning, and rage with equal bravado — the scenes that hit me the hardest in Die My Love are when Grace shares a sharp softness. There's a beautiful and humane paradox built in this protagonist. Her snarls and anti-social behaviors, like plunging into a pool in her underwear at a family party, might startle the neighbors and embarrass Jackson, but they don't mean she doesn't care about others or know how to. 

Jennifer Lawrence lies on the ground in "Die My Love." Credit: Kimberley French / MUBI

While motherhood might feel like a shackle, she loves her baby boy and expresses gentle, ardent affection for him. But before he even arrives, she does the same for her father-in-law, Harry (Nick Nolte), who is addled by dementia. Where others treat Harry like a child, with lilting pleads for obedience, Grace talks to him like they're sharing a secret, like they understand each other. And perhaps they do better than any other because of how everyone else infantilizes them, instead of meeting them where they are.

While Grace is soft with her son and father-in-law, Lawrence performs that gentleness with an intellectual sharpness that complicates even these moments of warm love. She and Ramsay build a woman who so resolutely rejects archetypes like mother and wife that Grace practically vibrates on screen, so fully formed that she can barely be contained in a 2D medium. 

 Die My Love is a radical and riveting melodrama that rejects sentimentality.  Robert Pattinson washes a bloody vehicle in "Die My Love." Credit: Kimberley French / MUBI

In this role, Lawrence will writhe on the floor, prowl on all fours through tall grass, and claw at the floral walls of a battered bathroom. She sinks her teeth into every moment so that Die My Love bleeds. Its premise might seem the stuff of Lifetime movies about failing marriages or maternal frustrations. But under Ramsay's direction, the story is more slippery and surreal, dangerously dedicated to psychological and emotional truth over a comforting narrative. There's a frankness to everything from sex and breastfeeding to the comfort and casualness Grace has with her own body. And perhaps especially now, when the U.S. government is pushing an agenda to reduce a woman's control over her reproductive rights and gender-affirming care, this feels audacious and radical.

Grace's journey will make you squirm, perhaps cackle. But in her messy quest for something beyond being boxed in, she offers a radical freedom to her audience. In the discomfort of watching her bicker, battle, and act out, an excitement of possibility burns. Where could this lead, not just for her — but for us? Will you walk away from Die My Love rattled? Feeling recognized? Or dared to be reborn? 

Die My Love opens in theaters on Nov. 7.

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If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it'll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

If you find yourself stuck at any step of today's Hurdle, don't worry! We have you covered.

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A group of fish.

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SHOAL

Hurdle Word 2 hint

Used in gardening.

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MULCH

Hurdle Word 3 hint

To promise.

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SWEAR

Hurdle Word 4 hint

A female has two of them.

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OVARY

Final Hurdle hint

What musical records are made of.

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VINYL

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We know it looks like it is, but the moon isn't full yet. In fact, there's still two days to go before this month's offering. But don't worry, there's still so much you can see tonight. Just keep reading to find out.

What is today’s moon phase?

As of Monday, Nov. 3, the moon phase is Waxing Gibbous. There will be 94% of the moon lit up tonight, according to NASA's Daily Moon Observation.

The moon is so close to full, and there's so much to see. For those looking up without any visual aids, you'll find the Tycho Crater, Mare Fecunditatis, and, Oceanus Procellarum among the things you can see. With binoculars, your list of sighting grows, with a particularly high chance of seeing the Gassendi and Archimedes Craters and the Mare Frigoris. If you have a telescope, you'll also see the Rima Ariadaeus, the Apollo 15 and 16 landing spots, as well as the Fra Mauro Highlands.

When is the next full moon?

The next full moon will be on Nov. 5.

What are moon phases?

NASA explains that the moon goes through different phases as it travels around Earth over roughly 29.5 days. The phases result from the shifting angles between the Sun, Moon, and Earth. From our viewpoint, the moon can look fully lit, partially lit, or even vanish from sight, though we always see the same side. What changes is the amount of sunlight bouncing off its surface depending on its position in orbit; a repeating pattern called the lunar cycle.

The eight main moon phases are:

New Moon - The moon is between Earth and the sun, so the side we see is dark (in other words, it's invisible to the eye).

Waxing Crescent - A small sliver of light appears on the right side (Northern Hemisphere).

First Quarter - Half of the moon is lit on the right side. It looks like a half-moon.

Waxing Gibbous - More than half is lit up, but it’s not quite full yet.

Full Moon - The whole face of the moon is illuminated and fully visible.

Waning Gibbous - The moon starts losing light on the right side. (Northern Hemisphere)

Third Quarter (or Last Quarter) - Another half-moon, but now the left side is lit.

Waning Crescent - A thin sliver of light remains on the left side before going dark again.

There is tragically no music video for Charli XCX and Lorde's remix of "Girl, so confusing." But if there were, I imagine it would look a lot like I Love LA's first episode.

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Rachel Sennott's HBO comedy follows a Los Angeles-based friend group, at the center of which is junior talent manager Maia (Sennott) and her bestie and rising It Girl client Tallulah (Odessa A'zion). While the pair eventually resolve to take L.A. by storm, their relationship in the series begins in a much frostier place, one reminiscent of the unspoken resentment and insecurities in Charli XCX's original version of "Girl, so confusing" from brat.

On that track, the singer wonders whether the target of the song — first implied, then outright confirmed to be Lorde — likes her or hates her. "Can't tell if you wanna see me / Falling over and failing," she sings, a feeling that applies to both the pressures of the music industry that she and Lorde are navigating and to fraught friendships in general.

Case in point: Maia and Tallulah. The pair were originally meant to move from New York to L.A. together, before Tallulah bailed on the plan. In the years since, Maia has primarily experienced Tallulah through social media, watching Tallulah's star rise as she books high-profile projects like a Marc Jacobs Heaven campaign. In the early moments of the show, Maia obsesses over Tallulah's Instagram posts, even though she's had her muted. She's obsessed with the image of Tallulah's success, and also with what Tallulah thinks of her — or if she even does anymore.

Rachel Sennott and Odessa A'zion in "I Love LA." Credit: Kenny Laubbacher / HBO

Maia winds up blocking Tallulah as an act of 27th birthday rebelliousness. Little does she know, Tallulah is on her way to L.A. at that very moment to surprise her for her birthday. From that point on, it's hell for Maia. Tallulah hijacks her day, begging for a beach trip, inviting herself to dinner, and later getting a hotel suite for a party Maia didn't even want. (To add insult to injury, Tallulah gets the suite by saying it's her own birthday — that way she can post about it in exchange for a free party.) Throughout, she flaunts her success in New York, her rich boyfriend, and her Balenciaga bag. It's Maia's worst nightmare: Her college friend seemingly made the right call in abandoning her, while she's stuck in a stagnating career.

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As Maia spirals, she cooks up lies to make it seem like she's doing far better than she really is. She claims she got a promotion when she didn't. She brags that she and her boss Alyssa (Leighton Meester) are thick as thieves, when Alyssa barely gives her the time of day. The lies and Tallulah's antics pile up until Maia can't take it anymore, leaving her and Tallulah to battle it out in the bathroom at her birthday party.

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Here, the truth comes out: Tallulah's been lying, too. She's broke, her boyfriend dumped her and kicked her out, and she hasn't landed anything on the level of the Heaven campaign in a year. Just like Maia thought Tallulah was killing it, Tallulah thought Maia was killing it, and she was hurt by her coldness throughout the weekend. To paraphrase Lorde, both women believed each other's projection, and now they totally get where the other is coming from.

Tallulah's revelation is a stunning reversal, one that prompts an honest reconciliation between the friends. They entered the bathroom yelling at each other in anger, but they leave squealing with excitement at what the future holds for the two of them.

Following an entire episode's worth of passive-aggressive tension, the scene provides the same catharsis as hearing Lorde jump on "Girl, so confusing" and declare she and Charli XCX should "work it out on the remix." Prior to the release of the remix, people were frothing at the mouth for drama, trying to figure out who the song was about, then wondering how Lorde would feel or respond. The remix proved a much more joyful conclusion, an honest apology of how one's own insecurities can harm relationships with others.

Similarly, before the bathroom scene, I was ready for a knock-down, drag-out fight between Maia and Tallulah. And after only seeing things from Maia's perspective for much of the episode, I was just as infuriated with Tallulah as she was. (Multiple times during my first watch, I just wrote down, "Ugh, Tallulah.") Still, seeing the two air their grievances and immediately come crashing back into their friendship ended up being far more freeing and rewarding than any catfight. And while "Girl, so confusing feat. Lorde" doesn't actually feature in I Love LA, its spirit shines through in Maia and Tallulah's makeup.

That might not be all for Charli XCX in the series, though. Sennott has spoken about wanting to cast her in future seasons of I Love LA, telling co-star Jordan Firstman in an Elle interview that "it would be fun to have Charli [XCX] on as something so different from herself." The pop star has already played herself on Overcompensating, with hilarious results. Could she complete the 2025 zillenial sitcom trifecta with future roles in I Love LA and Adults?

New episodes of I Love LA premiere Sundays at 10:30 p.m. ET on HBO and HBO Max.

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Don’t underestimate how much a new operating system can do for an old computer. If you have a PC, upgrading to Microsoft Windows 11 Pro can make it feel like a brand-new machine. And right now, you can make the switch for just $9.97 (reg. $199).

Give your dusty old PC a serious makeover with a Microsoft Windows 11 Pro license. It ushers in a whole new way to use your computer. Enjoy a seamless interface and brand-new features to streamline your workflow, including a more powerful search experience, improved voice typing, snap layouts, and seamless redocking.

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Are you curious about Arch Linux but scared off by the horror stories of constant breakage or the need for terminal wizardry? Wondering what’s actually true, and what’s internet folklore? Well, here are four myths about Arch Linux that you should stop believing—because they won’t stop spreading!

The latest Android flagship killers have just launched—but the U.S. is being left out of the party. These new phones are powered by the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip, along with other top-tier specs, and they're coming in at surprisingly low prices.

One of the best things about Samsung phones rarely comes up in reviews. That's Good Lock, an official customization suite that makes Galaxy phones the most customizable on the market—a tool that has supplanted the need I once had to install a custom launcher.

You may soon be able to give posts the thumbs-down on Bluesky. The Twitter dupe recently announced it would be testing a "dislike" button, aimed at improving the personalization of users' feeds.

The idea is that thumbs-downing posts you don't like will directly affect the posts you see in your feed.

Wrote Bluesky about the test feature in a blog post:

"Soon, we’ll start testing a 'dislike' option as a new feedback signal to improve personalization in Discover and other feeds. Dislikes help the system understand what kinds of posts you’d prefer to see less of. They may also lightly inform reply ranking, reducing the visibility of low-quality replies. Dislikes are private and the signal isn’t global — it mainly affects your own experience and, to an extent, others in your social neighborhood."

So, to be clear, dislikes won't be visible to the public — meaning people won't see what you dislike or how many dislikes any given post might have.

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While that's not a drastic change to how Bluesky works, it could lead to an improvement for daily scrolling. Bluesky's "Discover" tab is widely ignored — or worse, hated — by its power users because it's largely filled with corny posts that racked up likes. As writer Mike Pearl noted at Gizmodo, if the dislike button were to actually filter out posts and subjects you dislike, it could prove to transform the Discover tab into something "useful and maybe even dangerously addictive."

The internet is full of bad posts, but it seems like soon you might be able to do something about it on Bluesky.