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Games similar to 12 Word Searches

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Our thinky games database has lots of hand-curated, detailed information about every game, so we're able to make great recommendations for other games you might enjoy. This includes other line-drawing, logic, and puzzle games and other grid-based games.

Take a look at some of the most similar games below.

  • Letter Coins
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Find words within arrangements of old letter-stamped coins.
  • The Domino Lockpicking Company
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Identify the underlying line-drawing rules in a collection of domino arrangements.
  • One to Three
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Infer a consistent set of rules that yield a unique solution to each line-drawing puzzle.
  • Counterfill
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Follow the rules to solve some paper puzzles — except the rules are covered with paint.
  • LOK
    Pen & Paper
    Uncover the hidden language of the LOK through letter-based logic puzzles.
  • Tunnels
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the rules of each glyph in this instructionless puzzle challenge with serpentine tunnels.
  • Bobogram
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    A playful puzzle book with clipped instructions.
  • Understand
    Windows
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    Discover the rules for these line-drawing puzzles — but the rules change every level.
  • Gridspech
    Web
    Figure out how to validate each symbol in increasingly complex logic puzzles.
  • Decipher The Deck
    Windows
    Find the rules behind each suit and face card to solve the underlying logic puzzles.
  • Cipher Zero
    Windows
    MacOS
    Experiment with grid-shading logic puzzles and discover the rules of the cryptic glyphs.
  • Draw a Loop!
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Try uncovering the rules that will constrain these paper puzzles to a unique solution.
  • Lyth
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Dots, numbers, letters... Can you guess the unwritten instructions that tie them all together?
  • The Temple of Blight
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Figure out the meaning of several drawings on the wall of a temple.
  • FMTC
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Infer the rules behind a series of grid-based puzzles based on the unicity of each solution.
  • A Rule Explorer's Adventure
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the rules of an instructionless set in which puzzles have exactly two solutions.
  • Liquidum
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Android
    Solve aquatic nonograms where water flows down with gravity.
  • Trifoil
    Windows
    Learn about cryptic symbols and fulfill their conditions by drawing the right lines.
  • Reliquia Park
    Web
    Discover the logic rules of the relics and learn of the settlers that left them behind.
  • 14 Minesweeper Variants
    Windows
    MacOS
    Minesweeper taken to the extreme with new rules and fully deductive puzzles.
  • Workworkwork
    Pen & Paper
    Construct the universe with path-finding and shape-packing logic puzzles.
  • Witless - A Puzzling Journey
    Web
    An early collection of logic puzzles where pinning down the rules is part of the challenge.
  • Room to Grow
    Windows
    MacOS
    Grow your cactus along the grid, shifting and nudging plant pots into place.
  • Stencil Revamped
    Web
    Pen & Paper
    Explore a mixed media puzzle archive, rebuilding its ruleset along the way.
  • Sokobond Express
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    A minimalist path-drawing game about bonding atoms into molecules.
  • Abdec
    Pen & Paper
    Discover the writing system of the Abb through shape-packing puzzles.
  • Linelith
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Draw hidden paths in this short but surprising puzzler.
  • Vext Edit
    Web
    A tricky block-pushing game that puts you in the puzzle designer's seat.
  • Lyne
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Nintendo Switch
    iPad
    iPhone
    Android
    Connect all shapes with interlocking lines over soothing sounds.
  • Trails
    Windows
    Linux
    MacOS
    Plot careful, collision-free sandship routes across the wasteland.

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