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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.

  1. 1

    The ultimate slicing game

    2019 · its alternatives →

  2. 2IM

    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 →

  3. 3

    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 →

  4. 4
    Halfway▲72

    A gentle mobile puzzle game about reunion

    2020 · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    A new kind of addictive block slide puzzle game.

    2018 · its alternatives →

  6. 6IM

    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 →

  8. 8

    A fun little daily brain workout, free in your browser

    2022 · its alternatives →

  9. 9

    A calming game where you switch tiles to reveal an image

    2019 · its alternatives →

  10. 10IW

    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 →

  11. 11

    Fill in the shapes just by flipping tiles

    2021 · its alternatives →

  12. 12SA

    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 →

  13. 13
    Mixoku▲65

    A minimalist puzzle about mixing colors to clear the board

    2022 · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    A simple puzzle game for Android

    2020 · its alternatives →

  15. 15IR
  16. 16IM

    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 →

  17. 17MA
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    A modern take on the classic matchstick puzzles

    2025 · trangram.com · its alternatives →

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    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 →

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    Beautifully Minimal Puzzles

    Feb 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21

    A Merge Dice Puzzle Game

    2018 · its alternatives →

  22. 22HT

    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 →

  23. 23

    A surprisingly difficult daily puzzle

    2025 · squaple.com · its alternatives →

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    Mosaic▲3

    A logic puzzle game designed for everyone

    Jun 2026 · mosaic-game.uk · its alternatives →

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