Stack Garden guide

How to play

1. Start with Garden Path 1. Paths 1-4 use a 6×6 board, 5-8 a 7×7 board and 9-12 an 8×8 board, and each path gives you between 17 and 26 moves.
2. Slide a seed up, down, left or right, or select one seed and then a neighbour to swap them. A swap only counts if it lines up three or more matching seeds in a row or column. On a keyboard, arrow keys move focus and Enter or Space selects the two seeds.
3. Matching four leaves a line bloom on the board, five leaves a sun bloom, and six or more leaves a prism bloom. Matching or swapping a special bloom clears a wide area at once.
4. Matching six or more seeds in one go blooms a flower. From Path 5, flower goals appear along with vines covering some seeds; clear the cell under a vine to remove it.
5. The path is restored the moment you meet the score, flower and vine goals, and every unused move adds 60 points. A final score of about 112% and 125% of the target raises the result to two and three stars.
6. Nectar earned from rewards unlocks garden themes such as Coral Greenhouse (+2 moves) and Moon Glasshouse (+15% nectar). The daily garden journal (complete 2 gardens, bloom 5 flowers, score 2,500 in one run) also pays nectar.

Strategy tips

• Swapping two adjacent special blooms fires a combo: two line blooms make a cross bloom, a sun bloom with a line bloom makes a solar lattice that clears three rows and three columns, two sun blooms make a 5×5 grand sun, a prism bloom makes a spectrum bloom, and two prism blooms clear the entire board.
• Every match charges the Season Bloom gauge. At 100 you can pick a seed to clear its whole colour plus its row and column. Season Bloom and garden tools do not use up moves.
• Three moves in a row that each match five or more, or a single match of eight or more, award one extra sunlight move, up to four per path.
• From Path 9, reinforced glass vines need two hits. Weaken them first with a special bloom or tool, then finish them with an ordinary match.
• The hint (H key) shows the best swap right now without spending moves or score, and pressing it again while the hint is showing performs that swap.

Common questions

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