Tendril Puzzles

IT RAINED OVERNIGHT Play on any day, and the next time you look at your garden it has grown: every plant a little further along, 5% of the way to bloom, banked for free against its next stage. A card tells you why it rained and what reached a new stage, and when you let it rain, rain falls across the meadow and the plants grow up under it. Play today, and it rains again tomorrow. A DOWNPOUR, NOW AND THEN Once in a while the clouds open. A downpour grows the whole garden 20% in one go, with three seconds of real rain, a soft rain sound and a firmer tap as the growth lands. It comes no sooner than twenty days after the last one, and never without a day of play before it. MYSTERY SEEDS AND FINDS Every board you solve — and every lesson you finish — feeds the mystery in progress. When it opens, it is either a seed that reveals a plant you cannot buy, 20 of them from the bluebell to the moonflower that glows after dark, or a find dug up from the bed: one of 50 decorations, from a watering can and a wheelbarrow to lanterns that light up at night. Discoveries are planted for free; decorations are placed with a tap, moved by holding and dragging, and put away for free. Your collection lives in the planting sheet, with the ones still to find shown as silhouettes, and a friend visiting your garden sees everything you have placed. A BOARD THAT BLOOMS Solve a board and light runs along every line from the clue you finished on, leaves unfold, buds open into flowers, and the last clue throws a burst of petals — with two soft chimes. Then a smaller win sheet comes up that leaves the solved board in view: the time, your progress, the mystery seed, what you earned, and Next puzzle. A tap skips the bloom; reduce motion shows the finished board at once. TEN PACKS IN EVERY DIFFICULTY 39 new packs, 1,170 puzzles: Lines and Branches now have ten packs at every difficulty, 3,330 pack puzzles in all, and every one still has exactly one solution. EXTREME PAYS WHAT IT COSTS An Extreme board has twice an Expert board's cells and takes far longer to solve, and it paid the same single Seed. It now pays four times the Water and four Seeds (five on Branches), and every Extreme board you have already solved has been re-paid on the new scale. HINTS THAT POINT PROPERLY When a hint says "look here", the board is now dimmed around the cells it means and the cells themselves stay bright — and if you had zoomed in somewhere else, the board zooms back out so you can see them. FOR NEW PLAYERS The app opens straight into the first lesson, lessons are lighter and have Undo and Redo, the Branches lessons appear the first time you tap Branches, and signing in is optional: it is offered once you have something to protect. SMALL THINGS • The garden's shop is sorted into Flowers and Trees & bushes, so a tree is easy to find, and the Plant button stays under your thumb while you browse. • When more plants and decorations arrive in a future update, the game says so — "New mysteries" — and your next mystery starts that moment. • The Continue card is back on the Play tab after Next puzzle and back. • The garden's welcome waits until you open the Garden tab. • Awards won by one solve share one row on the win sheet, so the board stays in view. • Ad privacy choices, and on iPhone the tracking permission, are in Settings under You. • "1 Seed", not "1 Seeds".