Dev tools · September 27, 2025
A web version of Pips game (NYT domino game)
Hi everyone, I’m an indie developer learning Next.js and a big fan of the NYT game Pips. Inspired by it, I built https://pipsgamer.com — a responsive web version of Pips with smooth gameplay on both desktop and mobile. What makes this project different from NYT’s version is that you can play it infinitely under three difficulty levels: Easy / Medium / Hard. This is the first time I’ve built a game. Along the way I ran into many difficulties: implementing the game logic, configuring the UI, matching layouts for small and large screens, etc. I spent many lonely nights and…
A web version of Pips game (NYT domino game) launched on September 27, 2025 with 38 votes, #470 of 8,160 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
This is a web version of the New York Times domino game Pips, built with Next.js and playable on desktop and mobile devices. Unlike the original, it offers unlimited rounds across three difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard. The game requires no signup and features smooth, responsive gameplay. It's designed for players who enjoy domino-based puzzle games and want extended play sessions beyond the daily NYT version.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
No app required! If you want to play pips games unlimited like Pips NYT, enjoy daily/unlimited mode, archive access, and friendly mobile play
Game Disclaimer: This game is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to The New York Times or any other publication. For official puzzle games, visit NYTimes Games. Stay up to date with the latest Pips features and puzzle drops. * Launched the Pips NYT Hints page, offering daily solutions, expert strategies, and step-by-step guidance to help players solve challenging puzzles and improve their skills. * Released a comprehensive UI upgrade featuring seamless boards and unified domino styling. This update removes visual clutter to provide a smoother, more immersive gameplay experience. * Introduced Daily and Unlimited modes. Daily mode unlocks one puzzle per difficulty each day in…from pipsgamer.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi everyone, I’m an indie developer learning Next.js and a big fan of the NYT game Pips. Inspired by it, I built https://pipsgamer.com — a responsive web version of Pips with smooth gameplay on both desktop and mobile. What makes this project different from NYT’s version is that you can play it infinitely…
Does a similar job
all alternatives →
PipsGame2025 · pipsgames.org · ▲7Hi HN, I built https://pipsgames.org , a minimalist logic puzzle game inspired by Pips and NYT-style domino placement. Highlights: 100% free & no signup required Infinite procedurally generated puzzles Share a specific puzzle link with friends to challenge them Works on desktop & mobile It’s a side project for fun & brain training. I’d love feedback on puzzle design, UX, and what to build next (e.g. level editor or leaderboard). Thanks for checking it out!
Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid2022 · hexapipes.vercel.app · ▲537Hello, 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…
I made my personal website a Pokémon-style minigame using Phaser 32022 · arielroffe.quest · ▲425Repo here: https://github.com/ariroffe/personal-website
Pips game free2025 · pipsgamefree.online · ▲8Play Pips Game online: a daily domino-style logic puzzle.
More dev tools this month
the category →
Contribute to oosexgang/hackios-xnu-kernel development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 2d ago · github.com
open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 30d ago · github.com
Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 28d ago · github.com
OpenBot▲362Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer
Dev tools · 25d ago · openbot.run
Talanoa▲346Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…
Dev tools · 22d ago · talanoa.email
Source: Show HN post ↗ · launch text quoted in part
Launched alongside, September 2025
the whole month →
The site hit #1 on HN about a year ago. Got enough traffic that I turned it into a proper API. What's there: - REST API — 35k products, manually filterable by category, free key, 60 req/min - CLI — npx anycrap random -c food - faker.js plugin — bundled, no API call, works offline - HuggingFace dataset — full 35k rows for ML/training https://anycrap.shop/developers
AI · 2025 · anycrap.shop
I made a built-from scratch Wayland Compositor to display any GUI app* in the terminal! I think there is a lot of unexplored potential in custom Wayland compositors, a lot of really cool things you can embed existing applications into! So, I started with embedding apps into the terminal because that is the easiest input/output (output is just utf-8 and I use the great `chafa` library for that, and I just read from stdin for the input). If you have any other ideas for cool Wayland compositors, let me know. I purposedly wrote 80% the app in Typescript to appeal to the most developers and…
Dev tools · 2025 · github.com
- IR
Years ago I stumbled across a basic version of this concept and it stuck with me. I knew if I was ever going to take on such a project, it would need to be flawless, but without coding experience it was just another idea that would never happen. By the end of 2024, as AI coding tools exploded everywhere, I finally had a way to make it real. I started from zero knowledge and spent months collaborating with AI agents as a learning experience. Every pixel and every function went through me. The AI translated what I asked for into code, but every decision was human. I didn't use existing OS…
AI · 2025 · mitchivin.com
