Games like Flow Free: daily connect-the-dots pipe puzzles

Flow Free asks you to join each pair of matching coloured dots with a pipe so that the pipes fill the whole board without crossing. These daily games keep that rule, some exactly and some with a twist, and each gives every player the same boards that day.

The games

The closest matches come from Flow Free's own makers, Big Duck Games. Flow Free: Bridges adds squares where two pipes may cross, Flow Free: Warps lets a pipe leave one edge of the board and come back on the other, and Flow Free: Hexes moves the rule to a hexagonal grid. Each has its own Daily Puzzles pack that changes every day, with a varying number of boards and a streak for playing on consecutive days, and all three are free with ads on iPhone and Android.

In the browser, Flowku on Puzzleship is the plain Flow rule with six numbered grids a day, from very easy to ultra hard, and an archive of past days. The Daily Mail's Colour Connect posts one dated board a day for its readers. Numberlink on PuzzleMadness swaps colours for numbers: link each pair of equal numbers with a line so the lines fill every square, with a new grid each day at several sizes and scores on a leaderboard.

A few games change the board itself. LINKR gives three numbered boards a day where the dots sit on a network of lines rather than a grid, and every point must be used. LYNE, a paid game for PC, Mac, phones and Switch, draws one path per colour through shapes and numbered nodes, and releases a new set of generated puzzles each day. Chromaflow turns the idea around: the path pieces are already on tiles, and you swap and rotate them until every colour joins its endpoints, at easy, medium and hard each day. PipeConnect on PuzzleMadness hands you a counted supply of pipe pieces to lay so that all bulbs of one colour join up.

If you want more Flow exactly as it is, start with Flowku in the browser or the Flow sequels on your phone. If you want a daily habit with a new wrinkle, try LINKR or Chromaflow. Every daily game whose own puzzle is a path, loop or pipe network is on the daily path and loop puzzles page.

Questions

Does Flow Free have a daily puzzle?

Yes. Flow Free and its sequels Bridges, Warps and Hexes each have a Daily Puzzles pack that changes every day.

What is the puzzle Flow Free is based on called?

It is close to Numberlink, where pairs of numbers are joined with lines that fill the grid. PuzzleMadness posts a daily Numberlink.

Can I play a Flow-style puzzle in the browser?

Yes. Flowku on Puzzleship, Colour Connect from the Daily Mail, Numberlink on PuzzleMadness, LINKR and Chromaflow all run in the browser.

Are these free?

Most are free, some with ads. LYNE is a paid game.

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