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Life & fun · July 24, 2022

Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

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…

Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid launched on July 24, 2022 with 537 votes, #5 of 2,916 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

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In plain words

Pipes Puzzle is a connection-matching game where players rotate tiles to restore scrambled networks on a hexagonal grid. Unlike the traditional square-grid variant, the hexagonal layout offers increased complexity due to more possible tile shapes. The game includes a wrap mode where the board connects to itself at edges, removing outer boundaries and adding difficulty. It is designed for players seeking logic puzzles and spatial reasoning challenges.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Rotate tiles to connect all the pipes into a single network.

In the maker’s words, at launch

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…

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