new tricks???

 There is an old saying "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."  And I think it may be so, at least in my case.  

I and my spouse and some of my friends enjoy playing several of the New York Times free games on our phones.  We compare notes every day on 'Wordle' and 'Connections.'  

Some of us also do 'The Mini' and 'Strands.'  My spouse and I have a friendly competition on these and we're pretty evenly matched, although he does usually beat me on 'The Mini.'  I recommend all of these games.

Total game time per day is under ten minutes each lest you think we are frittering our whole day away playing brain games.

But now we have another game to play.  NYT has added 'Pips' to its game list.  It's an innocent looking little game played with domino shaped pieces which you need to slide into the correct spaces to fulfill the requirements of each game.  Each day you can progress from the easy to the medium to the hard levels.  

So far my wonder spouse has been zipping through all of the levels in about two minutes each.  I claim it's because of his EE background and all those circuit board layouts he used to work on.  

I on the other hand have a background in selling real estate, not at all the same thing.  But I shall persevere.  One of these days I'll get my total time for the three games under thirty minutes.