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24 alternatives to Advent of SQL

24 daily SQL puzzles all December 2024

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Advent of SQL launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1AO
   Advent of SQL – A Daily SQL Puzzle Calendar Inspired by Advent of Code▲7

   Dec 2025 · dbpro.app · its alternatives →

2. 2IM
   I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills▲547

   2023 · lost-at-sql.therobinlord.com · its alternatives →

3. 3US
   Using SQL's Turing completeness to build Tetris▲338

   2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

4. 4ST
   SQL Teaching – Codecademy for SQL▲166

   2015 · sqlteaching.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   24 days of #JavaScriptmas 🎄▲24

   📅 Coding advent calendar with daily challenges and prizes

   2020 · its alternatives →

6. 6ST
   SQL Trainer – Learn SQL by doing live data exercises▲303

   2018 · app.bytescout.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Advent of No-Code 2024▲178

   Create daily with 24 no-code challenges

   2024 · adventofnocode.io · its alternatives →

8. 8
   AI Advent Calendar▲17

   Learn AI in 24 days with 3-min daily lessons

   Dec 2025 · aiadventchallenge.com · its alternatives →

9. 9VS
   Visual SQL▲512

   2020 · chartio.com · its alternatives →

10. 10AN
    A new daily word puzzle▲52

    2022 · twentyletters.com · its alternatives →

11. 11IM
    I made a simple daily word puzzle▲114

    2024 · triword.net · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Figure is a daily logic puzzle game▲417

    Hello, HN! Figure is a little side project I’ve been working on. Someone described it as Bejeweled meets Wordle. I built the puzzle interface and website in Next.js and React, which was a first for me and overall a great learning experience. The daily puzzle data is queued up in a PostgreSQL table. Another table stores anonymous solve stats. Once a day, a cron job hits a serverless API that promotes the next puzzle as “live” and prompts Next.js to update the prebaked static site with the new data. The game state is managed with Redux and your stats are persisted to localStorage. Framer…

    2022 · figure.game · its alternatives →

13. 13IM
    I made a calendar where every month is also a crossword▲25

    2024 · aaronson.org · its alternatives →

14. 14
    SQL Ease▲91

    Instant SQL queries - Let AI do the work

    2023 · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Chess & Chat▲163

    A new chess puzzle to solve every day

    2022 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    25Days▲70

    Let's make holiday memories

    2022 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    25 Days of Vim▲76

    A Vim Advent Calendar

    2020 · its alternatives →

18. 18
    25DaysOf▲139

    Build your own advent calendar & share it with your friends

    2014 · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Advent of Code 2016▲6

    A series of daily small programming puzzles

    2016 · its alternatives →

20. 20
    12 Days of AI▲73

    Christmas themed 'Wordle of generative AI'

    2022 · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Calendar Query▲78

    Query your Google Calendar with SQL

    2023 · its alternatives →

22. 22LS
    Learn SQL Fundamentals▲18

    https://mrbrian.typeform.com/to/BdsZIO Join the SQLearn Mailing List to solve mindful and challenging SQL problems. See you on the leaderboard.

    2019 · its alternatives →

23. 23PE
    PostgreSQL Exercises - exercises and support for learning SQL▲11

    2013 · pgexercises.com · its alternatives →

24. 24SB
    SQL Basics▲26

    2021 · garden.bradwoods.io · its alternatives →

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