Puzzles

Pull the pin: Twig Pull.

Pull the twigs that plug a cross-section of garden soil and let dew, embers, boulders and seeds fall into place, so the ladybug gets her seeds safely.

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Enable JavaScript to play. Your game saves stay in this browser.How to playTap or click a twig to pull it. Keyboard: Tab or arrow keys choose a twig, Enter or Space pulls it, H shows a hint, U undoes. Tap during an animation to skip it.

Each twig plugs a gap between two chambers. Pull one at a time; everything then settles by itself before your next pull.

Loose things fall through open gaps in the floor. Dew and embers also run sideways through open gaps, but only downhill.

Dew and embers cancel into boulders, one for one. Embers burn seeds, remove slugs and are deadly to the ladybug.

A boulder that falls on a slug removes it, and on the ladybug it ends the round. Slugs walk through open gaps to the ladybug or the seeds and eat or catch them.

The ladybug walks through open gaps to seeds, but never through embers or slugs. Collect every seed and clear every slug the goal names.

40 gardens in four tiers. Your pulls are shown against the fewest possible. Hint names the next twig of a winning line; Undo takes pulls back.

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Goal. Pull the twigs that plug the soil chambers, in an order that brings the seeds to the ladybug and clears any slugs without harming her.

Pulling twigs

Each twig plugs a gap between two chambers. Pull one at a time; the garden then settles completely before your next pull.
Loose things (dew, embers, boulders, seeds) fall through an open gap in a chamber's floor. Dew and embers also run sideways through open gaps in a wall, but only to a chamber whose floor is lower.
Your pulls are shown against the fewest possible. A level is lost when something bad happens or when no twig is left and the goal is not met.

What meets what

Dew and embers cancel into boulders, one for one. Embers burn seeds and remove slugs; they are deadly to the ladybug. Dew is harmless to her.
A boulder that lands on a slug removes it. A boulder that lands on the ladybug ends the round.
Slugs walk through open gaps (never through embers) to the ladybug or to the seeds, and catch or eat them. The ladybug walks the same way to the nearest seeds, avoiding embers and slugs.

Gardens and help

40 gardens in four tiers: Seedbed, Rootway, Burrow and Deep Soil. Every garden was solved by an exhaustive search of all pull orders, and from the third garden on some orders fail.
Hint names the next twig of a shortest winning line from where you are. Undo takes pulls back, and Retry level starts the garden again.