How to play
- Grandma's prize hedge maze has been overrun by garden gnomes that came alive overnight. You have a water pistol and a plan: squirt every gnome back to stone, one garden room at a time.
- Move with the arrow keys or WASD, and press two at once to go diagonally. Space squirts a jet of water the way you are facing, and two jets can be in the air at once. Hold Space and a direction together to aim and squirt without moving. On a phone, use the pad and the Squirt button under the picture, and hold both at the same time.
- The hedges are thorny, and brushing one costs a life. Gnomes shuffle around trying to line up with you, across, down, or on a diagonal, and they throw an acorn along that line when they do. An acorn costs a life, too, so step out of the line or squirt first.
- A squirted gnome turns back to stone and tips over for 50 points. Gnomes are clumsy, though: one that walks into a hedge or into another gnome topples all by itself, with no points for you. Clear every gnome in a room for a bonus of 10 times the number that were in it.
- Each room has an opening in the middle of every side except the one you came in by, which closes behind you. Walk out of an opening to reach a new room. Every third room is a new level, with more gnomes, faster acorns, and a new hat color.
- Don't dawdle. After a few seconds the runaway mower rolls in through the hedge where you came in and chases you, plowing through anything in its way. Squirts just splash off it. The only way to lose it is to leave the room.
- You start with 3 lives and earn another every 5,000 points. Press P or Esc to pause and M to mute, and Enter starts. The Daily button starts a run on today's seed, and Seed plays a run by its code, so the same seed always plays the same rooms.
Your best score is kept on this device.