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Water Pouring Problem Simulation is a tool that models the classic water jug puzzle, where users work with containers of different sizes to measure specific volumes of liquid. Launched in 2016, it's designed for people… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Water Pouring Problem Simulation launched in 2016; 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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    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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    Challenging logic puzzle in the browser

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Fluid simulation in liquidfun-wasm

    2021 · birchlabs.co.uk · its alternatives →

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    Create generative art with biological simulations

    2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A free app to help with school math problems

    2019 · math.microsoft.com · its alternatives →

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    Alcohol tracker & mindful drinking companion

    2024 · pourdecision.app · its alternatives →

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    Colors at your fingertips

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A physics based puzzle / construction game

    2015 · 2dboy.com · its alternatives →

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    Colorful puzzle app inspired by the flood-fill algorithm.

    2025 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

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    2021 · barist.art · its alternatives →

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    I've been playing with this for quite some time and I think it's finally ready for public consumption. All feedback welcome.

    2025 · madmonk13.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Learning water meter with Mint-like usage tracking

    2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    A test of skill and puzzle solving..

    2016 · perchang.com · its alternatives →

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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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    A challenging grid puzzle game for iOS

    2019 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    A deep puzzle game with many twists. Also cash prizes.

    2017 · tetherstudios.com · its alternatives →

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    Water-Simulation with real time specular reflection on the waters surface. The reflection is implemented in GLSL and runs on the GPU and in screen space. The water itself is implemented using a pressure based approach for the surface calculation. - MauriceGit/Water_Simulation

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A game of drinking & socialising

    2016 · thegamecrafter.com · its alternatives →

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    This is inspired by Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival. https://jrmf.org/

    2024 · jumpingjuliamaze.onrender.com · its alternatives →

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    2022 · mathgrams.com · its alternatives →

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