Tile Snap vs The Hamiltonian Circuit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tile Snap
Engage your mind with a unique tile-matching puzzle game. Flip and match tiles to clear the board and solve increasingly challenging levels. Experience a satisfyingly tricky brain teaser.
- Tile flipping mechanic
- Match tiles to clear
- Solve challenging puzzles
- Satisfying click-snap gameplay
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Flip tiles to match them (click, click, snap!) Clear all tiles to solve the puzzle (whoosh!) It's trickier than it sounds!
The Hamiltonian Circuit
This challenging puzzle game requires you to find a continuous circuit that visits every square on a grid without crossing itself or walls. Progress from simple grids to complex, large-scale challenges that test your abstract thinking and problem-solving skills. Hints are available to guide you when you get stuck.
- Visit every square on the grid
- Avoid walls and self-crossing
- Progressive grid sizes (4x4 to 20x20)
- Hint system for assistance
- Automatic progress saving
- Single solution per puzzle
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Find a path that visits every square in the grid, avoiding walls and never crossing itself, to create one continuous circuit. To get the hang of things, start with one of the simple 4x4 grids. Plot your moves carefully. Try to think ahead; not just by one square, but by four or five. If you think you've made a mistake, trace back over your line. It will disappear. If you really get stuck, press Hints. Any mistakes will turn red, then disappear. But if you're on the right path, we'll add a line. There's only one solution for every puzzle. When you find it, you'll know. Puzzles start with 4x4 grids and go all the way to 20x20. The bigger puzzles are very challenging and can take hours to solve. If you have to quit in the middle of one, don't worry: your progress is automatically saved. Many find working on these circuits meditative; others reach for the ibuprofen. But no matter which camp you find yourself in, know you're exercising your abstract thinking skills and challenging your brain in ways that actually matter. Inspired by a puzzle created by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1856, these circuits start off easy and get hard. Really hard. Good luck! Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tile Snap at 4.8 against The Hamiltonian Circuit's 3.8. Tile Snap also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (85% vs 59%). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tile Snap sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and The Hamiltonian Circuit sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tile Snap holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tile Snap has 2.2K ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Tile Snap's written reviews are positive against 59% of The Hamiltonian Circuit's.
Tile Snap ships an update monthly, The Hamiltonian Circuit every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tile Snap | The Hamiltonian Circuit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.2K ratings) — better | 3.8 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.3% of reviews — better | 59.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.2K — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shape Shop Pty Ltd atf Shape Shop Trust | Good Thinking Games |
Customer experience
Tile Snap
The Hamiltonian Circuit
Bugs and requests
Tile Snap
Reported bugs
2 issues- Losing progress or purchased hints across devices
- Issues with daily free hint not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- More levels and content updates
- Ability to replay or revisit previous levels
- Option to earn additional free hints
- Level selection or progression control
The Hamiltonian Circuit
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tile Snap
- 5 Hints$0.99
- 12 Hints$1.99
- Daily Hints$2.99
The Hamiltonian Circuit
- Pack of 50 Hints$0.99
- Bright Mini 1$0.99
- Pack of 50 neurons$0.99
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- Basic Puzzle Pack 1$2.99
- Einstein mini-bundle 1$2.99
- Bright 1$2.99
- Sharp 1$2.99
- Pack of 250 Hints$3.99
- Pack of 250 neurons$3.99
- Remove Ads$4.99
- Pack of 750 neurons$9.99
- Unlock all puzzle packs$18.99
- Unlock all puzzle packs$30.99
Questions
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