Garden Tales 4

The fourth Garden Tales is the biggest of them: four thousand levels of collecting flowers, fruits and mushrooms for Willy, the gnome whose magical garden has clearly outgrown him. The rule rewards volume — the more of one kind you bring together, the more the board gives back.

At this scale the run is a habit rather than a project. Nobody finishes four thousand levels in a stretch, and the game does not expect it: goals rotate between the three collectibles often enough that any session has something you are good at, and the difficulty relaxes after each cluster of hard boards.

If you have played the earlier instalments, this is the same garden with far more of it. If you have not, it stands alone perfectly well — nothing in the story needs the previous three.

1. Check which of the three collectibles the level wants.
2. Swap two neighbouring pieces to line up three or more of the same kind.
3. Chase larger groups of the requested kind — the payoff scales with the match.
4. Keep working through the garden with Willy at your own pace.

On a run this long, quit a board that has beaten you twice and come back to it. The list is deep enough that momentum is worth more than any single level, and the next three are usually kinder.