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24 alternatives to I made a minimalist puzzle game about linking nodes in graphs

Link all of the points together in three daily puzzles

Linkr is a minimalist puzzle game where players connect nodes in graphs to solve increasingly complex puzzles. Released in late 2022, the game strips away unnecessary elements to focus on core puzzle mechanics. It… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a minimalist puzzle game about linking nodes in graphs launched in 2022; 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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    Eight Colors is a block shifting game where the goal is to shift circular blocks to reach the target.

    2022 · eightcolors.net · its alternatives →

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    Hi, I wanted to share a simple game I wrote. It's a sliding pieces puzzle like many others. I have focused a lot on making the experience smooth and minimalistic and the levels being challenging in a way a sudoku or chess puzzles could be. I had no prior knowledge of game development and while it feels like someone competent could build this game in a week I spent over two years and hundreds of hours to bring this game to life. My journey went through: - thinking it will be a PC game - being overwhelmed by the amount of different game frameworks - hiring an indie dev to bootstrap the game in…

    2023 · kuboble.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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    A daily game: use logic to connect the red dots

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Daily puzzle game

    2024 · nodes-game.com · its alternatives →

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    High quality puzzle games

    2022 · puzzlehub.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! Graphs is the intersection of data visualization and the daily web puzzle genre (Wordle, NYT Mini Crossword, Connections, etc.). Every day, you are given a nameless graph and 5 options to select the right dataset it is representing. Upon winning, you can access the underlying dataset and other info + maintain a streak and stats. It's super simple - check out today's chart and you should be able to get the gist quickly. My email + twitter account (@graphsgame) is on the page, would love a feedback or a follow. Don't hesitate to reach out!

    2024 · graphs.world · its alternatives →

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    A simple open source puzzle game.

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    A while ago I discovered three.js, a JavaScript library to manipulate 3D objects. It looked really interesting, but I had no real need for it... To change that I recently challenged myself to make one 3D web game per month with three.js. And I just release game #2, a puzzle game called Cuboid, and you can try it here: https://www.thomasfriday.com/cuboid/ Please let me know if you have any questions or feedback. Thanks!

    2023 · thomasfriday.com · its alternatives →

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    2022 · twentyletters.com · its alternatives →

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    Mathler▲79

    A daily math puzzle inspired by wordle

    2022 · mathler.com · 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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    Games for Designers

    2015 · graphism.fr · its alternatives →

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    Treksit▲65

    Put your logic to test with graph theory

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Adds▲54

    Puzzle game based on simple addition

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Match three same numbers to merge them into higher number

    2023 · mergetin.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, My partner and I made a daily puzzle game called "bridj.link" (the dot is not silent). Thought I'd give Hello World in SolidJS a shot but ended up taking things a bit too far (to the point where we're now on our 99th puzzle!) Each puzzle has thousands of valid solutions. The tutorial goes into a bit more detail, but basically, each puzzle consists of a top word and a bottom word. These words need to be linked together using real words, made up of the tiles provided. In addition to an emoji summary of your solution, you'll get a fancy link that you can share with others upon…

    2024 · bridj.link · its alternatives →

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    voi▲80

    Minimalistic shape-matching puzzler

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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