Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Quick games disguised as boring spreadsheets
I posted a version of this over a year ago but decided to rebuild it recently. Bored Spreadsheet is a collection of quick and easy games that look like a spreadsheet from a distance. I have tightened the app to be a collection of 6 games: Minesweeper, 2048, solitaire, sudoku, a market trading game and a daily reconciliation puzzle where the player must find bad data in a fake table. The games are free to play but sign up is required to submit your scores to the leaderboard. As was the original intention over a year ago, I hope this proves useful to those office workers who have a lot of…
Bored Spreadsheet is a collection of six games including Minesweeper, 2048, solitaire, sudoku, a market trading game, and a data reconciliation puzzle. Each game is designed to resemble a spreadsheet, making them… 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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Play social games with your coworkers on Slack
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hey, maker here. After launching a daily word search game, I randomly thought of this math game while driving. Finally got around to making it and I think it turned out pretty cool. It’s a math search game that’s meant to help you practice your quick addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. I’m hoping it’ll help people (even those like me who aren’t big on math) learn and increase their speeds. (There are also some settings you can enable to make the game harder) If you try it out, please let me know if you found it fun, if you have anything you’d like me to add, or if you…
2024 · worchle.com · its alternatives →
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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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Win $2,000 by conquering the spreadsheet escape room
2022 · coefficient.io · its alternatives →
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Sorry in advance for the lost productivity…
2014 · gameaboutsquares.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I've created a new Sudoku app for iOS and Android that prioritizes simplicity and privacy. It's free to download and use, and I'd be grateful for any feedback or suggestions. Features: > 4 difficulty levels, accessible at any time > No personal data collection of any kind > Clean, minimalistic design that focuses on the game > Takes up significantly less space than other popular apps (by a factor of about 10x) > Minimal use of advertisements I was frustrated by how many of the popular Sudoku apps feel excessively over-engineered, consume a lot of storage space and some that even…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I love building small games (as Pong, Wordle, Tetris, etc.), but they're never quite unique enough to justify their own site. So I built boring.game - a daily "boring" game where the social mechanics (predicting your score, challenging other users) is more interesting than the game itself. I started a HN team if you want to compare your results: https://boring.game/invite/SRhyUStjin You can also play all daily games without signing up, if that is what you prefer. Built with SvelteKit (first time using Svelte - loved it!). Would love feedback on both the concept and…
2025 · boring.game · its alternatives →
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Sorry in advance for the lost productivity… Again !
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalistic puzzle game inspired by Picross and Sudoku.
2021 · ordinarypuzzles.com · 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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Created some free sites to play online versions of retro MS games like Minesweeper, Solitaire and others such as Sudoku & Tic Tac Toe. I learned about Cloudflare's Pages at same time to host all the code at no cost.
2023 · retrogmz.com · its alternatives →
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Play solitaire, while others think you're in spreadsheets
2020 · solitaired.com · its alternatives →
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Solve today’s 5x5 Sumplete grid in under 5 minutes. Delete numbers until each row and column hits its target sum. Track streaks, compare stats — play free on any device.
2023 · sumplete.com · its alternatives →
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A minimalist mashup of Sudoku and Minesweeper
2017 · facebook.com · its alternatives →
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Made this game for ReactRIOT, and people loving it 😌
2017 · reactriot-crossword.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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Super simple game where you have to find unusual things
2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · loop.lekevicius.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · jayfuerstenberg.com · its alternatives →
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Stock Market Simulator To cure your boredom
Oct 2025 · genzgames.fun · its alternatives →
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