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Garden Tales 2 game info

Garden Tales is a gnome-themed match 3 game. It’s the sequel to Garden Tales, one of the most popular match 3 games on Solitaire Paradise.   

Gameplay

Match three or more identical pieces to collect the pieces and earn points within a set number of turns.

If you match more than three pieces, you’ll get special pieces:

• The Line Blast removes all pieces in a straight line (vertical or horizontal) around it.
• The Cross Blast removes all pieces in both a vertical and horizontal line around it.
• The Spiral Bomb removes all pieces of the same type it’s swapped with. For example, if you switch a Spiral Bomb with a blackberry, it’ll remove all blackberries from the board.

Combining special pieces has different effects:

• Combine two Line Blasts, and they’ll remove all pieces in a vertical and horizontal line around them (like a Cross Blast). 
• Combine a Line and a Cross Blast, and they’ll remove pieces in a vertical and horizontal line, as well as in one diagonal line, around them.
• Combine two Cross Blasts, and they’ll take out pieces in an asterisk shape around them.
• Combine a Line Blast with a Spiral Bomb to take out pieces in an asterisk shape.
• Combine a Cross Blast with a Spiral Bomb to turn all pieces of the same type into Cross Blasts (and collect them, earning more points!).
• Combining two Spiral Bombs removes all pieces from the board.

If there are no possible moves you can make, the board will shuffle.

Levels

After beating level 5, you’ll unlock the level map, which lets you try old levels again or get special boosts in game.

Each level has its own goal. Some levels will require you to collect a certain number of pieces. Other levels will require you to remove all dirt from the board (by matching pieces over it), breaking ice blocks (by matching pieces next to them), or collecting a certain number of fruit baskets (by leading them to the bottom of the board).

Once you meet the level goal, you’ll enter Garden Tales mode. The game will place special pieces on the board, and fire them all at once. You get as many special pieces as you had turns remaining, so try to beat levels with as few moves as possible. Watch the fireworks, and watch your points go up.

Scoring

Each piece is worth 10 points. A chain of three pieces is worth 30 points; a chain of five pieces is worth 50 points. Special pieces are worth more points.

As you hit different point thresholds by matching pieces, you will earn Stars. The more points you get, the more Stars you earn (up to three Stars). You can beat many levels with only one or two stars, but the best players will try to get all three.

Boosters

The game gives you the chance to earn Boosters that make the game easier.

• The Swap Booster lets you swap the positions of two pieces, whether or not they’re next to each other.
• The Shovel Booster lets you remove one piece from the board.
• The Horizontal Line Breaker lets you remove a horizontal row of pieces from the board.
• The Vertical Line Breaker lets you remove a vertical row of pieces from the board.

You can earn Boosters after certain levels, find them on the level map, receive them from the prize wheel, or receive them as a gift from your Gnome friends (one every 3 hours).

Coins

Coins are premium currency, earned by beating levels and by watching advertisements. You can spend Coins to get extra moves when you fail a level.

Most levels will give you the chance to earn Coins by watching an extra ad once you’ve beaten them.

At random, the game may pick a level and place a Chest on it (which you can see on the level map). Chests give you Coins and Boosters!

Prize Wheel

The Prize Wheel lets you earn extra Coins, or rarely, a Booster. You can spin the Prize Wheel once a day (once you unlock it at level 15). You can spin it twice, if you’re willing to watch an ad. Sometimes, you get the chance to spin the Prize Wheel after you fail a level.

Hearts

If you fail while playing a level, you’ll lose one Heart. If you run out of Hearts, you can’t keep playing!

You get five hearts to start, and they replenish every half hour.

Daily Challenge

Every day, you can complete a Daily Challenge (unlocked at Level 21). These daily challenges are super hard levels, designed to test your Match 3 skills to the limit.

Daily Missions

You can also complete various daily missions. These missions are randomly generated.

They might include collecting a certain number of a certain kind of piece, spinning the Prize Wheel, collecting a certain number of coins, or completing a certain number of missions while gathering flowers.

You get rewards for completing these missions every day, but you don’t need to play them to beat the game.

Tips and Tricks

• Unlike in most other Match 3 games, you don’t remove ice by matching pieces with pieces in ice; you match pieces next to them to break through. Don’t let your Candy Crush experience get the better of you!
• Again, unlike in most other Match 3 games, you don’t always have to collect every piece of dirt or break every ice block. 
• Keep an eye on the corners. On levels where you have to collect dirt or break ice, it can be easy to overlook pieces at the edge of the board.
• It might seem tempting to use your Boosters early on, to help you on levels that are giving you trouble. Don’t do this! The game is generous with Boosters early on to get you hooked, but they’ll give you fewer Boosters as time goes on. Like most Match-3 games, later levels are much harder; some are incredibly difficult to beat without Boosters. 

Controls

Left-click and drag (or tap and drag) a piece to swap it with another piece.

Click a Booster (or tap it) to use it.

System requirements

Garden Tales 2 can be played in all modern browsers, on all device types (desktop, tablet, mobile), and on all operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, ...).