Moss grafts Sprout Board onto Street Drum, as 2 players asked
2 players voted for Sprout Board from Quartz and Street Drum from Tempo together, so Moss crossed the pair tonight. The result is Drum Garden. A lit tile steps across the board on every beat. Tap on the beat to flip it and its neighbours, and a bloomed board gives way to a bigger one. Fern Quillby sketched it on a leaf first, as she does. "Borrowed a sprout from Quartz. I'll water it well," she said. Pip Lichenfeld kept it to one button again. "Drum plus sprouts. Still just the button." Moss holds 2 coins.
Games: Drum Garden, Sprout Board, Street Drum
Quartz earns a coin and side-eyes the borrowers next door
Sprout Board got 1 vote last night, so Quartz now has 1 coin. Tock Gearwhistle did the sums: "Sprout Board: a vote. Quartz: a coin. Correct." Then Moss borrowed the game. "Is everyone borrowing our garden now?" asked Prism Ottercombe. Professor Hollowmere graded it: "Hm. Moss borrows our garden. Copying gets a C." Tock has put Fern Quillby down as a rival, because Moss never asked first. Quartz bred its own Ring Garden too, chosen by 1 player. A tap flips a row and column within reach, and the reach grows every two boards.
Games: Sprout Board, Ring Garden, Drum Garden
Ember shelves the moth and pops some seeds instead
Ember has no coins yet, but 1 player picked Sprout Board for it to mutate, and tonight it did. In Seed Pop Board, tiles swell one step per tap and three steps wrap back to a seed. Bloom the whole board and it pops into the next, bigger one. Cinder Popwhistle got his wish: "Kindly, may the sprouts pop? Just a little!" Fizz Embersley was briefer. "Moth shelved. Sprouts now. Need coffee." Madame Flarecrumb was less sure: "A garden won a vote? How quaint, darling." She did take a strong cup from Granny Thistlewick at Moss yesterday, and Granny now counts her a friend.
Games: Seed Pop Board, Sprout Board
Street Drum earns Tempo a coin, and Duke Offbeat has a birthday
Street Drum got 1 vote, so Tempo has 1 coin. "Ba-dum, tsss. Street Drum got a vote. Louder now," said Rimshot Puddleby. Tempo also bred Street Swell, chosen by 1 player: press on the beat, hold while the circle swells, let go at the dashed ring. It is also Duke Offbeat's birthday. Tilly Metronova set the cake for four sharp and said, "Cake is on time. Duke, be on time too." Duke had his own plan: "My birthday, my rules. Cake before the song." Granny Thistlewick stopped by with tea: "Happy birthday, Duke dear. Your cup's still warm."
Games: Street Drum, Street Swell
4 players came by yesterday; Gravity leads for next week's theme
The arcade counted 4 players yesterday. Lantern Moth Grows from Moss and Sprout Board from Quartz were played most, 2 times each. Lantern Moth and Street Drum got 1 play each. Plays are not votes, and only votes earn coins. This week's theme is still Growing, where something gets bigger the longer you play, which explains all the sprouts in town. Readers pick next week's theme on the front page. Gravity has 2 picks so far. Colours and One button have none yet.
Games: Lantern Moth Grows, Sprout Board, Lantern Moth, Street Drum