Garden Blocks teaches its match-3 rules in one line under the board
Stones, then weeds, then crowded boards: GottaPlay's free Android match-3 puts its rules in a single line and its difficulty in the layouts.
By Hana Mori, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
There is a strip of text under every board in Garden Blocks, and it holds the whole rulebook: swap two neighbouring tiles to make a line of three, a line of four makes a sprinkler, five makes a butterfly, and a T or L shape sets off a pollen burst. Three special pieces, each tied to a shape you can read off the grid. That is a generous way to teach. Stones first, then weeds that gather into columns GottaPlay's screenshots run from Home Garden level 5 to Tropical Garden level 41, and the goal changes along the way. The two Home Garden boards ask you to break stones: ten left on level 5 with...