NYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Saturday, May 16

InnovationGamingNYT ‘Pips’ Hints, Answers And Walkthrough For Saturday, May 16ByErik Kain,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture.Follow AuthorMay 15, 2026, 06:00pm EDT Today's PipsCredit: NYTSaturday is here at last, and we’ve officially crossed over into the second half of May. School is ending for students and teachers across the country, and summer is quickly approaching. It’s lovely outside, but before we go off on our outdoor adventures, we have an Easy, Medium and Hard Pips puzzle to solve. Gather your dominoes, Pipsqueaks, and let’s get to solving!Looking for Friday’s Pips? Read our guide right here.How To Play PipsIn Pips, you have a grid of multicolored boxes. Each colored area represents a different “condition” that you have to achieve. You have a select number of dominoes that you have to spend filling in the grid. You must use every domino and achieve every condition properly to win. There are Easy, Medium and Difficult tiers.Here’s an example of a difficult tier Pips:Pips exampleScreenshot: Erik KainMORE FOR YOUAs you can see, the grid has a bunch of symbols and numbers with each color. On the far left, the three purple squares must not equal one another (hence the equal sign crossed out). The two pink squares next to that must equal a total of 0. The zig-zagging blue squares all must equal one another. You click on dominoes to rotate them, and will need to since they have to be rotated to fit where they belong. Not shown on this grid are other conditions, such as “less than” or “greater than.” If there are multiple tiles with > or < signs, the total of those tiles must be greater or less than the listed number. It varies by grid. Blank spaces can have anything. The various possible conditions are:= All pips must equal one another in this group.≠ All pips must not equal one another in this group.> The pip in this tile...