We show you how to play Pips, a new Times puzzle.
By Tom Wright-Piersanti
I’m an editor of The Morning. My fastest Saturday crossword time is 5:31.
My favorite assignments in grade school were the logic puzzles that teachers would hand out when the class had downtime. They offered a few pieces of information — Zoe’s house is blue; Mark lives next to a green house; Jason doesn’t live next to Mark or Zoe — and challenged us to deduce the full picture.
To my third-grade brain, it seemed like a magic trick. By putting a few X’s and O’s on a grid, and by thinking about it hard enough, I could reveal entire worlds. I’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.
