Mole Meadow

About the game

Mole Meadow is a cozy logic puzzle set in a moonlit garden. Sleepy moles hide under some of the grass patches. Dig a patch and it shows a number: how many of its eight neighbors hide a mole. Use those clues to dig every safe patch without waking anyone.

Plant a carrot wherever you are sure a mole is snoozing. Basil, the gardener cat, watches from the top of the screen and reacts to every dig. Wake a mole and it pops up, grumpy, in its little nightcap. Clear the whole field and the meadow bursts into flowers while the moles munch their carrots.

Pick Sprout for a quick warm-up, Garden for a proper puzzle, or Field for a long challenge. You can also build your own custom field. It plays with a mouse, a keyboard or a touch screen, with no account and no download.

How to play

1. Press Play and pick a field: Sprout, Garden, Field or Custom.
2. Dig any patch to start. Your first dig is always safe and opens part of the meadow.
3. Each number tells you how many of the 8 patches around it hide a mole.
4. Plant a carrot on a patch you are sure hides a mole: right-click, press F, long-press, or use the Carrot tool.
5. Click or tap a number that already has enough carrots around it to dig all its other neighbors.
6. Dig every mole-free patch to make the meadow bloom, then try to beat your best time.

Controls

Long-press does the opposite of the selected tool: it plants a carrot while digging, and digs while the Carrot tool is on.

What’s inside

• Three field sizes, Sprout 9x9, Garden 16x16 and Field 30x16, plus custom fields up to 30x40.
• Your first dig is always safe and always opens up a patch of meadow.
• Quick chording: click or tap a number with enough carrots around it to dig the rest of its neighbors.
• Every number has its own color and its own little mark, so they are easy to tell apart.
• Best time for every field, a win streak and simple stats, saved in your browser.
• Mouse, keyboard and touch controls, with pinch zoom and auto-rotated big fields on phones.
• Gentle synthesized sounds, a mute button and a calm, moonlit pixel-art style.
• Top-5 fastest clears for Sprout, Garden and Field, lifetime stats and 8 achievements.

Achievements

8 achievements to unlock. They are saved in your browser and also count toward your badges on the My arcade page.

• First bloomClear your first meadow.Locked
• Quick sproutClear Sprout in under 30 seconds.Locked
• Hat trickWin 3 rounds in a row.Locked
• Garden keeperClear a Garden field.Locked
• Green thumbWin 10 rounds.Locked
• Swift gardenerClear Garden in under 2 minutes.Locked
• Field masterClear the big 30×16 Field.Locked
• BarehandedClear Garden or Field without carrots.Locked

Tips

• A 1 that touches only one grass patch means that patch hides a mole. Plant a carrot on it.
• Once a number has all its carrots, tap it to dig every other patch around it at once.
• Work along the edge of the open soil, where the numbers give you the most clues.
• On a phone, pinch out to see the whole field, then pinch back in to dig with big patches.
• The game pauses itself when you switch tabs, so the timer never runs while you are away.

Questions