New in the park – Christmas Lights, Pyramid and quick crosswords
The first week of November brought two new games to the park, and several familiar games got new features. Here are the highlights.
New game: Christmas Lights
In Christmas Lights the Christmas lights in the yard have gone out on a winter evening, and you light them by tapping the bulbs. Each tap switches the bulb and its four neighbours: a lit one goes out and an unlit one comes on. There are 30 levels, and the light grids grow from nine bulbs to 49. Every solved level lights something new in the yard, until a star shines at the top of the tree.
There is also a new daily puzzle every day, the same for everyone. Solve it every day and your streak grows.
New game: Pyramid
Pyramid is a patience game where you remove the cards of a pyramid in pairs. A pair has to add up to 13, and a king goes on its own. When you clear a pyramid, the next deal continues the same run. We compared Pyramid with the park’s other card games in Three card games in your browser.
Quick crosswords in Cottage Crossword
Cottage Crossword now has Quick crosswords: small grids that fit on a phone screen in full. The next one opens as soon as you solve the last. On a phone, Quick crossword is the first choice on the start menu.
Typing is smoother too. Backspace clears a letter and then moves back one square, and when only a few squares are left empty, the cursor jumps to the next empty square as you type.
A super bonus in Berry Forest
When you pick a whole forest clean in Berry Forest, Grandma flies off with her baskets to a new forest, berries burst into the air and you get a super bonus: 1,500 points and three more picks. The sun bar at the top now shows how many picks you have left. Grandma got a new look as well: a polka-dot apron and smiling eyes above her reading glasses.
Light pulses in Fibre Connection
When you connect the network in Fibre Connection, light runs along the trunk fibre to the street cabinet, and from there pulses of light race along the cables to every house. The houses light up as the pulses arrive. Splices and joints now stand out by their colour, and you can also draw the digging route with the mouse by clicking its start and end.
Card games that teach beginners
Solitaire, Pyramid and Sevens now guide players who are new to them. The game first tells you the goal in a sentence, then explains one rule at a time just when you need it, and highlights the cards the tip is about. Players who already know the rules see no tips. Solitaire deals are also more often ones you can win with ordinary sensible moves, without guessing what the face-down cards are.
No more getting stuck
We fixed situations where a game could end up somewhere it couldn’t move on from. When Summer Kiosk has nothing to sell, you can no longer buy an upgrade that would leave you without money for supplies. In Berry Farm the neighbour brings seeds once a summer if your fields are empty and you have no money, and in Cabin Village the municipality gives a grant once if the village gets stuck.
