Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Halves Into Whole
A simple but very smart brand new puzzle.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Halves Into Whole launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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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 →
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A new kind of addictive block slide puzzle game.
2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey there! I'm the brains behind the math crossword game on my site. This game is all about making math a little more fun – users just drag and drop numbers to fill in the blanks and move on to the next level if they get it right. Let me know if face any issues or have any suggestions! :)
2024 · scientific.place · its alternatives →
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A sliding puzzle with a Rubik
2022 · quaxio.com · its alternatives →
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Figure.game▲142A fun little daily brain workout, free in your browser
2022 · figure.game · its alternatives →
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Puzzle Swap▲62A calming game where you switch tiles to reveal an image
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Swapple - A daily puzzle game where you transform patterns by swapping rows and columns. Challenge yourself to solve it in as few moves as possible!
2025 · swapple.fuglede.dk · its alternatives →
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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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Hello! Try out a 3x3 puzzle and click the question mark in the top right for a tutorial. I'd really appreciate any feedback! Thanks
2024 · slidecross.io · its alternatives →
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Colorcube▲67Turn pieces and blend colors in this minimal puzzler
2016 · colorcu.be · its alternatives →
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Cubic▲58A simple puzzle game for people who love cubes & colors.
2015 · gizop.com · its alternatives →
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Mixoku▲65A minimalist puzzle about mixing colors to clear the board
2022 · play.google.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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Renkx▲60Combine same colors in vertical and horizontal lines
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · gregfjohnson.com · its alternatives →
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Solve today’s 5x5 Sumplete grid in under 5 minutes. Delete numbers until each row and column hits its target sum. Track streaks, compare stats — play free on any device.
2023 · sumplete.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 →
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