Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Linez
A classic puzzle game ported from Flash to WebGL
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Linez launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 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 →
- 2LA
Hi HN, I wanted to share a web game I’ve been building in HTML, JavaScript, MySQL, and PHP called LINEX. It is primarily designed and optimized to be played in the mobile browser. The idea is simple: you have an 8x8 board where you must place pieces (Tetris-style and some custom shapes) to clear horizontal and vertical lines. Yes, someone might think this has already been done, but let me explain. You choose where to place the piece and how to rotate it. The core interaction consists of "drawing" the piece tap-by-tap on the grid, which provides a very satisfying tactile sense of control and…
Feb 2026 · playlinex.com · its alternatives →
- 3IM
2022 · quaxio.com · its alternatives →
- 4FI
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 →
- 5SA
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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Free online play classic tile-matching puzzle
2024 · 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 →
- 15AP
The idea for this pixel art puzzle game came from playing Triominos, and wondering what would happen if you replaced numbers with colors. A few mutations later, and it became a mobile game where you click a piece to turn it in place, to recreate pixel art. I built the basic idea in just over an hour on Twitch. Dev-wise, I used a homebrew Typescript game engine I created, called Booyah (https://github.com/play-curious/booyah). The graphics are all rendered using the awesome library PixiJS. What do you think?
2023 · pixel-puzzler.playcurious.games · its alternatives →
- 16IB
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 →
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Improve your math skills with this fun to play mobile game!
2021 · its alternatives →
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Play Gridl, a free daily block puzzle. Drag pieces onto an 8x8 grid, clear rows and columns, and share your score. Same puzzle for everyone, one attempt per day.
Feb 2026 · gridlgame.com · its alternatives →
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A game about finding differences between art-inspired images
2023 · its alternatives →
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New block puzzle game with popular yet unique gameplay.
2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Puzzle game reimagined with a unique swipe-base mechanics.
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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