Lawn Mower Puzzle

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Looking at the old days of living in a house on a lane, you'd walk by to see people mowing their lawns, and that leads you to wonder about Lawn Mower Puzzle. There is some strategy that goes into mowing your lawn so that it's maintained well and keeps its form for a while. Some people will even have multiple types of mowers to take care of different parts of the yard. That's not something you have to think about here since you've been given the classic mower from all those old magazines and cartoons. You still need to use it cleverly though to make sure that your lawn looks and stays good.

About Lawn Mower Puzzle

Mowing the lawn isn't as easy as just running a mower over the long parts, you need to have a plan from start to finish. This game takes that idea and makes it more direct and easier to absorb. The puzzle is all about movements but with limited direction and little flexibility to work with the more that you mow. You can't haphazardly mow here just like you can't in real life or you'll make more of a mess. This is why you need to make use of whatever time you can spare to find the best way to mow.

How to Play

Lawn Mower Puzzle is a 2D puzzle game about mowing the lawn as intelligently as possible by using the mouse. To move the lawn mower, click a patch of grass that it can reach in a straight line and click it with the Left Mouse Button. The mower can only travel in straight directions and cannot go backward. It will always stop at a point where it has the opportunity to change direction. The goal is to mow over each patch of grass before the timer on the right runs out. The faster you do so, the more star coins you'll earn.

When you begin, you can choose any of the levels you've unlocked. Each level is a top-down contained area that always starts the mower in the same place. The mower can move over any open patch of grass but needs to move around objects like boxes. If the mower ever has to move back over a place it has already mowed, it will be reset and the mowed patches will be undone. As long as all the grassy patches are mowed, the mower can stop in any area and the level will be completed.

Tips and Tricks

Even though you have a timer, the puzzles are still relatively small so you have some time to spare. This should be spent on carefully looking over the grid of the yard. Determine the ideal endpoint for the mower and then make a path toward reaching it.