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24 alternatives to Blending AI Images with Classic Checker Patterns: Puzzle Game Evolution

Fun puzzle game crafted with unique checker pattern puzzles generated by AI

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Blending AI Images with Classic Checker Patterns: Puzzle Game Evolution launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

  1. 1IM

    This is the first iteration of a short game I’m making that tries to interactively explain some of my favorite math questions / ideas. My goal is mostly to get the player curious and not necessarily to explain absolutely everything. There were a lot of fun technical parts to building this: - For implementation reasons, it’s much easier if the lines all have integer intersection points with each other. To do this, when a new line is added I “cheat” by rounding intersections to integers and then splitting the old lines at the intersection into new linds (with potentially different slopes)…

    2024 · rahulilango.com · its alternatives →

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    An educational puzzle game. Solve a series of tasks where you build increasingly powerful components. Starts with the simplest logical components and ends up with a programmable computer.

    2018 · nandgame.com · its alternatives →

  3. 3AG

    A daily visual guessing game drawn from this day in Wikipedia history.

    2022 · doodleai.darraghoriordan.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4IW

    I’ve been working on a puzzle game for a few years as a side project. The game is based on a small region of tiles in a grid that is mirrored, modified, and mirrored again. It’s based on a novel phenomenon I noticed where, once these mutations happen a few times, the original region can be hard to recognize. You have a feeling there are symmetries in the image, but they are just out of grasp. Going further, if only part of the region is visible, such as mirroring off the edge of the board, it adds to the feeling and it becomes a satisfying puzzle to solve. I originally published this on the…

    2024 · hidden-mirrors.com · its alternatives →

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    Beautifully designed puzzle of a gradient

    2015 · areaware.com · its alternatives →

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    This is a game I wrote over the last month and a bit. The effort allocation was pretty different from what I've done in the past. The game design snapped together very quickly: I had the initial idea, played a couple of games on a spreadsheet to get a feel for the idea, and made one change based on those plays. After that everything felt just right through multiple rounds of playtesting. Likewise the puzzle generation is nowhere near as elaborate as in my previous game, fairly simple methods worked well and provided good variety. Instead I ended up spending silly amounts of time on curating…

    2024 · huewords.snellman.net · its alternatives →

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    Guess what artificial intelligence labeled random images

    2021 · thinklikeabot.com · its alternatives →

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    Solve logical mystery riddles by asking AI yes/no questions

    2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A visual puzzle inspired by beautiful typography

    2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Adds▲54

    Puzzle game based on simple addition

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    If puzzles are your thing, then Logic Traces is your game!

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A puzzle game inspired by functional programming.

    2015 · david-peter.de · its alternatives →

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    voi▲80

    Minimalistic shape-matching puzzler

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Compete to create the funniest AI images in this party game

    2023 · artificialunintelligence.gg · its alternatives →

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    Most challenging puzzles you'll ever play

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Transform a chaotic grid into perfect harmony! Click tiles to create cascading color changes in this mind-bending puzzle game. 70+ levels of pure satisfaction await. Can you master the cross pattern and achieve color unity?

    2025 · color-me-same.franzai.com · its alternatives →

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    Splice▲60

    An experimental and artistic puzzler

    2015 · cipherprime.com · its alternatives →

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    Generate variations of any input image with AI (DALL-E 2)

    2023 · ai-imagegenerator.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    I continue my experiment of transposing classic games onto an irregular grid. I've previously released variants of minesweeper and checkers. And now I'd like to share my variant of Chess. Chess can be a pretty punishing game, but I thought this was nevertheless a way to make it even more challenging by making it trickier to anticipate your opponent, even though both players still have the same information. From the playtests I've done, that challenge is pretty compelling. It also seems to be more fun at 2 people, where both players keep surprising one another.

    2024 · polyreplay.com · its alternatives →

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    Create your own playable word search puzzles

    2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    I've been playing with this for quite some time and I think it's finally ready for public consumption. All feedback welcome.

    2025 · madmonk13.github.io · its alternatives →

  22. 22EI

    Hi HN, I've been experimenting on-and-off over the years trying to automatically generate crosswords [1]. Recently I've been feeling like my results are good enough that I want to share them and see what other people think. I'm not trying to claim that these could appear in, say, the NYT in their current state, but honestly the velocity of progress makes me feel like I will inevitably be able to automatically generate NYT-quality crosswords within just a year or so. A write-up is here: https://abstractnonsense.com/crosswords.html And you can play the crosswords here:…

    2024 · abstractnonsense.com · its alternatives →

  23. 23IM

    I found a cellular automaton which creates some interesting patterns similar to those found in nature.

    2025 · byronknoll.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-Native Puzzles For WordPress Publishers

    Aug 2026 · entreveloper.com · its alternatives →

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