I made a new number puzzle
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Details
- External ID
- 49986878
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a new number puzzle
- Website domain
- hikupuzzle.com
- Launched
- Oct. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09602649006622517
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 9, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
I built Hiku: numbers jump their value onto another number and subtract. Equal numbers disappear. Clear the board.Four daily difficulties. Free in your browser, no account needed.
Enrichment
- Niche
- casual puzzle and word games
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- number puzzle game for casual players
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A turn-based numeric grid puzzle game is straightforward JavaScript/TypeScript game logic with standard web animations and local state management.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 59 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #59 of 60 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 281 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Sequation · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Merge Numbers: Offline Puzzle · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Math Game · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Museum of Numbers · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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