Every garden can be solved with logic alone, but sometimes it’s nice to have a friend in the grass. The game has two kinds of help, and they’re quite different.
A hint lights a lantern
A hint finds one of the hidden lanterns and lights it for you. It also marks the row, column, coloured area and surrounding patches with an X, so the board is tidy afterwards. It’s the bigger help of the two, and it gives the most away.
A tip gives you a nudge
A tip doesn’t light anything. It picks a row or column and makes a short stretch of it glow, two or three patches long. The message says that line’s lantern is somewhere in the glow, and the rest of the line is marked with an X for you. The last step is yours.
If you close a tip, you can read the same tip again for free.
How much help you have
You start with 3 hints and 3 tips. They carry from garden to garden, so the number on each button is what you have left overall, not per garden. Winning a garden doesn’t refill them by itself. There are two ways to get more.
Gifts from the garden
Now and then a win reaches a milestone, and the garden gives you a gift: you choose one hint or one tip. These are the milestones:
- Your 5th, 10th, 25th, 50th and 100th won garden, then every 50th.
- A daily streak of 3, 7, 14 or 30 days, then every 30 days.
- Your first win at each of Tricky, Clever, Challenging, Expert and Master.
- Your first won garden of each leaderboard week, starting from the week after you install.
You get one gift per win. If two milestones land on the same win, the second waits for your next one. Replays, losses and the tutorial don’t count towards any of them. Gifts can take a kind up to 5.
A short ad, if you ask
When a kind runs out and you tap it, you can choose to watch a short ad for one more. It’s always your choice, and a finished ad gives you exactly the one you asked for. It needs a connection and an ad being available. There are limits to keep things fair:
- One refill per kind for each attempt at a garden.
- None in the tutorial, and none on your first attempt at the day’s daily garden.
Does help affect anything else?
Only your points. Using any hint or tip halves what that win earns on the weekly leaderboard. The win itself still counts in full for your journey and your streak.
