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24 alternatives to Piponnect
Piponnect is a free, easy-to-play puzzle game.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Piponnect launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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Flow Free▲57A simple yet amazingly addictive dot-connecting puzzle game
2015 · bigduckgames.com · its alternatives →
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Pipe Cube▲69A deep puzzle game with many twists. Also cash prizes.
2017 · tetherstudios.com · its alternatives →
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Pips Game--Free domino logic puzzle inspired by pips nyt
2025 · pipsgames.online · its alternatives →
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Connection!▲64A relaxing and brain challenging puzzle game
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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CNTR▲109A platformer where you got to escape the circuit labyrinth
2016 · zsergey.com · its alternatives →
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Play Pips Game online: a daily domino-style logic puzzle.
2025 · pipsgamefree.online · its alternatives →
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an easy, entertaining and fast-paced tap iOS game
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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LOOP▲74A tranquil puzzle game, with a simple, meditative feel
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Braid▲76Manipulate the flow of time to solve beautiful puzzles
2015 · braid-game.com · its alternatives →
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The adventures of an unlikely 1-pixel hero
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Taps▲81A beautifully simple puzzle game with a unique concept
2017 · kinorogames.co.uk · 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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Solid Hollow▲57A Swap Pong Game, You Think It's So Easy?!?!
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Strand▲61Bend and stretch through obstacles to connect elements.
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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