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24 alternatives to Matchstick Puzzle Game in the Browser

An older family member showed me these puzzle games that he was playing via YouTube videos. I wanted to make them more playable in a frictionless way, so I generated all possible combinations for these types of puzzles and put together an interface for them.

Matchstick Puzzle Game in the Browser is a collection of matchstick puzzles playable directly in a web browser. The game generates puzzle variations and provides a frictionless interface for solving them, eliminating… 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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    Free online matchstick puzzle game with guaranteed solutions. Solve challenges that get harder as you progress. Create and share your own custom puzzles.

    May 2026 · mathstick.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Grab a drink, go full-screen and enjoy a free and 100% relaxing game of Mahjong Solitaire!

    2020 · jongmah.com · 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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    A sliding puzzle with a Rubik

    2022 · quaxio.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello, HN - I wanted to share this puzzle game I made during my vacation. I'm rather fond of the pipes puzzle where your goal is to restore a scrambled network of connections by rotating tiles. It's usually played on a grid of squares and this all started when I decided to make a programmatic solver for that kind of puzzle. Then I realized that with some minor changes the solver could generate new puzzle instances. I thought about what kind of puzzle to make and someone suggested a hexagonal grid. Adapting the generator wasn't too hard but then I had to create a way to play this variant. So…

    2022 · hexapipes.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Simple retro paddle arcade game written in Javascript, using good ol' Canvas.

    2024 · raould.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Open Source HTML5 Puzzle Game Engine

    2016 · puzzlescript.net · its alternatives →

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    Source: https://github.com/alabhyajindal/sudoku/blob/main/index.html

    2024 · sudoku-aj.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    A small fun app to test your CSS knowledge. Find the correct CSS selectors for the 10 puzzles as fast as possible.

    2022 · css-speedrun.netlify.app · 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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    An educational puzzle game. Solve a series of tasks where you build increasingly powerful components. Starts with the simplest logical components and ends up with a programmable computer.

    2018 · nandgame.com · its alternatives →

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    2015 · solve.blendok.us · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I've been working on this Sudoku web app for the past couple of years, on and off during free weekends and afternoons. I started working on it because I was bored during COVID, and Cracking the Cryptic had just become popular on YouTube, which got me wondering how hard it could be to make a Sudoku app. The main idea is for the app to understand the constraints and know how to solve Sudoku grids (and not just be a simple Sudoku drawing/playing app). When it comes to classic Sudoku, the solver doesn't support anything more complicated than X-Wing, but it understands the…

    2025 · sudokuvariants.com · its alternatives →

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    As a fan of dense New York Times-style crosswords, I challenged myself to create topic-specific puzzles. It turns out that generating crosswords and efficiently placing words is a non-trivial computational problem. I started the project, "Joystick Jargon" combining traditional crossword elements with gaming-related vocabulary. Here's the technical process behind it: 1. Data Source: Used a 3.8 Million Rows Reddit dataset from Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/datasets/webis/tldr-17). 2. Data Filtering: Narrowed down to gaming-related subreddits (r/gaming,…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    A simple puzzle game for Android

    2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    A modern take on the classic matchstick puzzles

    2025 · trangram.com · its alternatives →

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    Match three pieces of puzzle and test your reflexes

    2021 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    The classic 15-puzzle now online

    2018 · 15puzzle.netlify.com · its alternatives →

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    3D puzzle game web browser

    2016 · lulea.github.io · 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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    Hey HN, I built this simple puzzle generator to play around with wasm a bit. It's open source if anyone wants to play around with the code https://github.com/lnenad/puzzlip

    2024 · puzzlip.com · its alternatives →

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    Minimal arcade puzzle game with touch to move controls.

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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