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24 alternatives to Countdown

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Vile8▲66

    Number game to live through Monday

    2020 · its alternatives →

  2. 2
    Taps▲81

    A beautifully simple puzzle game with a unique concept

    2017 · its alternatives →

  3. 3
    Quick10▲64

    A fun and entertaining arcade game

    2021 · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Reach 2048, relax and have fun

    2022 · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Fill in the shapes just by flipping tiles

    2021 · its alternatives →

  6. 6

    Fun Puzzle Game that never lets you get bored

    2024 · its alternatives →

  7. 7

    A classic math puzzle game

    2020 · its alternatives →

  8. 8

    A daily puzzle game where today's date is the answer

    May 2026 · numereo.io · its alternatives →

  9. 9SW

    Hello HN, I've created a new Sudoku app for iOS and Android that prioritizes simplicity and privacy. It's free to download and use, and I'd be grateful for any feedback or suggestions. Features: > 4 difficulty levels, accessible at any time > No personal data collection of any kind > Clean, minimalistic design that focuses on the game > Takes up significantly less space than other popular apps (by a factor of about 10x) > Minimal use of advertisements I was frustrated by how many of the popular Sudoku apps feel excessively over-engineered, consume a lot of storage space and some that even…

    2023 · its alternatives →

  10. 10

    Classic Sliding puzzle to kill time

    2020 · its alternatives →

  11. 11IB

    Hi, I built Equatile, a logic-based puzzle game where you arrange number tiles on a grid to make every row and column equal their target values. It's built using Expo and is available for free on iOS, Android, and the Web. It's a game I've had in mind for almost 10 years now but never got to actually develop, until I came across Expo which made the process incredibly easy. I might open source the code on GitHub. I hope you enjoy playing it!

    2025 · equatile.com · its alternatives →

  12. 12

    A daily countdown numbers style puzzle game

    2025 · falanjiapp.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13

    Free online play classic tile-matching puzzle

    2024 · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Built for calm minds who love numbers.

    Oct 2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Tilt.▲4

    The endless puzzle that respects your time.

    Jun 2026 · tilt.webist.agency · its alternatives →

  16. 16AM

    2022 · mathgrams.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17

    A puzzle game to relax and enjoy

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    I posted a version of this over a year ago but decided to rebuild it recently. Bored Spreadsheet is a collection of quick and easy games that look like a spreadsheet from a distance. I have tightened the app to be a collection of 6 games: Minesweeper, 2048, solitaire, sudoku, a market trading game and a daily reconciliation puzzle where the player must find bad data in a fake table. The games are free to play but sign up is required to submit your scores to the leaderboard. As was the original intention over a year ago, I hope this proves useful to those office workers who have a lot of…

    Jun 2026 · boredspreadsheet.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19HT

    I created a puzzle game after some recent years of hiatus from game development. It was a puzzle game where you have to assemble a randomized tiles. You can view the preview using eye icon on the top right side. You also can undo your previous step. I created this game using Unity because I am already familiar with it. If you encounter the tiles is not randomized, please try recreate the tile again, I don't exactly know why it's happenning. Thank you

    2024 · yunusefendi52.itch.io · its alternatives →

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    Game to play in free time

    2021 · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    Hello HN! We're Rory and Chris, and we've made a game called Dozenal[0], a grid-based number puzzle game where the objective is to use all the tiles on the board to create totals of 12 (hence the name). We think the mechanic is quite unique, although keen to hear if people know of similar games! You essentially drag tiles across the board, and the distance between two numbers decides the arithmetic operation when they connect to each other: zero spaces is addition, one space is subtraction, two spaces is multiplication: e.g. 5 → 4 = 9 5 → _ → 4 = 1 5 → _ → _ → 4 = 20 We've spent the past…

    Jul 2026 · dozenal.game · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Tap, match, score – how far can you go?

    2025 · itboos.com · its alternatives →

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    equ8▲10

    A fun daily math puzzle game

    2024 · playequ8.com · its alternatives →

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    Classic Sudoku, clean and simple

    2025 · sudokuonline.cc · its alternatives →

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