ShikakuLOGIC
Also about fitting shapes into a fixed board: cut a ten by ten grid into rectangles so each holds exactly one number, equal to its area in cells. Free, no account, and it keeps a free archive.
The Best Pips Alternatives
Top daily logic games like Pips
Pips is a placement puzzle wearing dominoes: every region carries a condition, and the tiles only go one way once you read them right. These daily boards ask for the same reading.
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Games like Pips
Places objects under counting rules rather than arranging pieces. One tent per tree, never touching another tent even at a corner, with the numbers along the top and the left fixing how many go in each column and row. No account needed.
CageyMATH
The arithmetic half of Pips on its own. A four by four board carved into outlined cages, each with a target printed in its corner, filled using only the digits 1 to 4. Free and no account.
MinesweepdleLOGIC
A shared daily Minesweeper: the same fifteen by fifteen board with thirty-five mines for everyone, and one attempt. Reading number clues rather than placing pieces, and unlike Pips a mistake ends the run. It keeps a free archive.
Choosing between them
Which of these can I get wrong without losing the day?
Shikaku, Tents and Trees and Cagey all let you redraw and carry on, the way Pips lets you rearrange. Minesweepdle is the exception: one attempt on a shared board, and a wrong cell ends it. Pick that one only when you want the stakes.
Is there another daily domino puzzle?
Not in this catalogue. Pips is the only one. Shikaku is the nearest relative because you are still fitting shapes into a fixed board, but you cut rectangles out of a grid instead of laying tiles onto one.
Can I play any of these on my phone?
Pips itself runs on the web, iOS and Android. Every alternative on this list is recorded as web only, so if you play on a phone you will be using a browser rather than an app. Shikaku, Tents and Trees and Cagey are all recorded as needing no account.