IT RAINED OVERNIGHT Play on any day, and the next time you look at your garden it has grown: every plant a little further along, 5% of the way to bloom, banked for free against its next stage. A card tells you why it rained and what reached a new stage, and when you let it rain, rain falls across the meadow and the plants grow up under it. Play today, and it rains again tomorrow. A DOWNPOUR, NOW AND THEN Once in a while the clouds open. A downpour grows the whole garden 20% in one go, with three seconds of real rain, a soft rain sound and a firmer tap as the growth lands. It comes no sooner than twenty days after the last one, and never without a day of play before it. MYSTERY SEEDS AND FINDS Every board you solve — and every lesson you finish — feeds the mystery in progress. When it opens, it is either a seed that reveals a plant you cannot buy, 20 of them from the bluebell to the moonflower that glows after dark, or a find dug up from the bed: one of 50 decorations, from a watering can and a wheelbarrow to lanterns that light up at night. Discoveries are planted for free; decorations are placed with a tap, moved by holding and dragging, and put away for free. Your collection lives in the planting sheet, with the ones still to find shown as silhouettes, and a friend visiting your garden sees everything you have placed. A BOARD THAT BLOOMS Solve a board and light runs along every line from the clue you finished on, leaves unfold, buds open into flowers, and the last clue throws a burst of petals — with two soft chimes. Then a smaller win sheet comes up that leaves the solved board in view: the time, your progress, the mystery seed, what you earned, and Next puzzle. A tap skips the bloom; reduce motion shows the finished board at once. TEN PACKS IN EVERY DIFFICULTY 39 new packs, 1,170 puzzles: Lines and Branches now have ten packs at every difficulty, 3,330 pack puzzles in all, and every one still has exactly one solution. EXTREME PAYS WHAT IT COSTS An Extreme board has twice an Expert board's cells and takes far longer to solve, and it paid the same single Seed. It now pays four times the Water and four Seeds (five on Branches), and every Extreme board you have already solved has been re-paid on the new scale. HINTS THAT POINT PROPERLY When a hint says "look here", the board is now dimmed around the cells it means and the cells themselves stay bright — and if you had zoomed in somewhere else, the board zooms back out so you can see them. FOR NEW PLAYERS The app opens straight into the first lesson, lessons are lighter and have Undo and Redo, the Branches lessons appear the first time you tap Branches, and signing in is optional: it is offered once you have something to protect. SMALL THINGS • The garden's shop is sorted into Flowers and Trees & bushes, so a tree is easy to find, and the Plant button stays under your thumb while you browse. • When more plants and decorations arrive in a future update, the game says so — "New mysteries" — and your next mystery starts that moment. • The Continue card is back on the Play tab after Next puzzle and back. • The garden's welcome waits until you open the Garden tab. • Awards won by one solve share one row on the win sheet, so the board stays in view. • Ad privacy choices, and on iPhone the tracking permission, are in Settings under You. • "1 Seed", not "1 Seeds".

ANIMALS MOVE IN Twelve animals can make your garden their home. A butterfly, a frog, a bee, a robin, a hedgehog and a snail come to the meadow; once it grows into a wood, a rabbit, a fox, a deer, an owl, a wolf and a bear follow. Each one wants something from your garden — flowers in bloom, grown bushes, tall trees, water — and when one arrives, the garden takes you to it. A garden kept well may draw a second butterfly, bee or rabbit, and filling the meadow and the wood earns two new awards. TAP, AND THEY HIDE Every animal hides in its own way. The rabbit bolts into a bush, the robin flies into a tree, the frog leaps into the pond, and the fox dives head first into a hole of its own, peeks out, looks left and right, and only then jumps back out. The wolf howls, the bear roars, and everyone else runs for cover. THE GARDENER'S JOURNAL A new page off the Garden: who lives here, when they arrived and which plant brought them, and who might come next, with everything each one still needs. Share it as a picture. A LIVING YEAR Blossom in spring, amber leaves in autumn, snow on the conifers in winter. And now and then someone passes through: a heron at the pond in the morning, a cat along the path in the evening, fireflies over the water at night. CHALLENGE A FRIEND After a win, send a picture of the board with your time — the clues only, never the answer. A friend who has Tendril opens it straight in the app and races your time; a friend who does not is shown where to get it. FIVE EXTREME PACKS A rung above Expert: Lines on boards up to 17×17 and Branches on 13×13, with two new awards for ten and for fifty Extreme solves. HINTS THAT ASK FIRST A hint now asks what you need. Check for mistakes marks every cell that does not belong and offers to erase them all in one step. Next logical move finds the step the board proves, and Show me places just that step instead of the whole number. A number that has run out of room is no longer marked on its own, so spotting it is yours again until you ask. Buying Water or Seeds also adds five hints that keep. ZOOM IN ON ANY BOARD Pinch, or use the + and − buttons, to magnify a board up to four times. A zoomed board wears a frame, with scrollbars beside it for moving around. Every line now has a thin spine back to its number, so you can always tell which clue a cell belongs to. And the board looks right on a phone lying down. A WEEK IN A ROW PAYS Every seventh daily in a row pays 250 Water and 50 Seeds, on top of the rest day it already earns. Branches boards pay a quarter more Water, and every fourth Branches solve adds a Seed. When Water and Seeds arrive, you now see them land. SMALL THINGS • The daily's clock starts when the board opens, so every time on the daily board is measured the same way. • A daily in progress no longer shares its board with the same puzzle in a pack. • Return a plant to the meadow and it sinks back into the grass instead of vanishing. • The garden zooms with a pinch, and zoomed all the way out, all of it fits below the top bar. • The first sounds: the wolf's howl and the bear's roar, under the Sound effects switch. • The owl's line in the journal now says what "after dark" means: 5 pm to 5 am on your phone's clock. • The daily leaderboard always ranks players by the times it shows. • The Water and account sheets no longer slip under Android's navigation buttons.

YOUR STREAK CAN TAKE A DAY OFF Play seven days in a row and you earn a rest day. Miss a day after that and it quietly fills the gap, so one busy week no longer costs you a long streak. You can hold up to three, and the Daily tab shows how many you have. A FIRST LESSON YOU FINISH IN TEN SECONDS Tendril now opens on a single number and a single drag. The longer lessons follow, once you have already won something. AWARDS THAT SPEAK Every award now reads in your own language, shows how far along you are, and keeps the date you earned it. Finish a board and you see what you just unlocked — or what you are closest to. A LITTLE HELP WHEN YOU ARE STUCK If a board goes quiet for a while, the hint button offers itself, once. And when a number no longer has room for the cells it needs, it is marked — so you know where to look instead of hunting. YOUR FIRST WEEK A short list on the Play tab points new players at the daily, the garden and the hint, and pays a little Water for each step. Hide it whenever you like. NOTIFICATIONS, ONLY IF YOU WANT THEM Ask for a daily nudge at an hour you choose, and hear about it when someone reacts to your score. Both are optional, both live under Settings, and neither is asked for at startup. SMALL THINGS • When the day's pair is done, you see what tomorrow brings, and when. • Players who never chose a name are now a Mossy Fern rather than a "Player". • One tap from a win into the garden, the first time a solve leaves you enough Water to grow something. • Pinch, pan and zoom in a friend's garden the way you do in your own. • Streaks no longer break when the clocks change. • The leaderboard refreshes when you come back to it.

DRAW ANYWHERE Start a line on any empty cell. It stays a light outline while it belongs to nobody, and fills in the moment it reaches a number. In Branches you can now draw every arm of a clue in one stroke — pull into the number, turn, and keep going without lifting your finger. Reverse straight through a clue to grow its other side. Your finger decides; the board keeps up. 150 NEW EXPERT PUZZLES Five new packs on the biggest boards Tendril has ever shipped — Lines up to 14×14, Branches up to 12×12. For when the regular Experts stopped being scary. GARDENS ARE FOR SHARING Your garden is now shared by default, so friends from the leaderboard can drop by and see what you have grown. They can look, never touch — and you can close the gate any time, from the Garden itself. Found a closed garden? Knock, and the gardener decides. A small marker now shows where your next plant will land, and plants grow up in a second instead of five. AN EASIER START New players get a hand: the board shows the exact finger movement to make, cells count themselves 1, 2, 3 as you draw, and Lines and Branches introduce themselves properly — they are different games. The Garden explains itself on first visit too. SMALL THINGS • Unsolved daily puzzles now show a play button, so it is clear they are waiting for you. • Your account moved to the top of the You tab. • Send feedback lives under Help. We read everything.