Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The Magic of Math
Solving for x and figuring out why
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Magic of Math launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The art of educated guessing + opportunistic problem solving
2016 · its alternatives →
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Explains the big ideas of math
2017 · its alternatives →
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The hidden beauty and logic of the world
2016 · its alternatives →
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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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2017 · mathcha.io · its alternatives →
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Broad span of algorithms, covered in clear depth
2015 · 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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2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · ximera.osu.edu · its alternatives →
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2015 · lewis500.github.io · its alternatives →
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2019 · mathigon.org · its alternatives →
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I recently published a book called “The Magic of Code” which is about the delights of the computational world, examining computing as a kind of “humanistic liberal art” that connects to so many topics, from art and biology to philosophy and language. The link I’ve shared is to a page on my book’s website where you can download a pdf of the introduction, to give HN readers a taste of what is inside. Right now there is so much worry and concern around technology that I feel like some people—though not the folks here—have forgotten how much fun that code and computation can also be. So I wanted…
2025 · themagicofcode.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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