Quick games disguised as boring spreadsheets
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I posted a version of this over a year ago but decided to rebuild it recently.Bored Spreadsheet is a collection of quick and easy games that look like a spreadsheet from a distance. I have tightened the app to be a collection of 6 games: Minesweeper, 2048, solitaire, sudoku, a market trading game and a daily reconciliation puzzle where the player must find bad data in a fake table.The games are free to play but sign up is required to submit your scores to the leaderboard. As was the original intention over a year ago, I hope this proves useful to those office workers who have a lot of downtime in between tasks or meetings yet don’t have the freedom to open Youtube or Cyberpunk 2077 on their work computers. Ironically my work network has blocked the website as it “contains non-business-related services” – I hope you have better luck than me!
HN · launched Jun 8, 2026 · 22 upvotes (top 24%) · 0 views
Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a frontend collection of classic casual games (Minesweeper, 2048, Solitaire, Sudoku) styled to look like an Excel/Google Sheets interface, easily built with React and Tailwind CSS.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Job/work environment is strict
Feature requests: Tic tac toe game
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 569 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #152 of 570 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 222 days after the earliest competitor.
- BoredPuP · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Overdesigned Simple Solitaire · hn · 2026-10-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Unwinnable Games · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I made a retro falling block puzzle, with a twist ;) · hn · 2026-09-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Graycells Games · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- BRB · ph · 2026-10-27 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Funhouse: 10 Offline Games · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Corporate Mind Games · hn · 2026-08-31 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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