The Basics
What is Rock Garden?
The Main Menu
Setting Your Profile
Quitting the Game
Classic Game
How to Play
How to Move Stones
Clearing a Level
What are Collectible Stones?
What do I do with Collectible Stones?
What are obstacles?
What are locked stones?
Random Mode
What is Random Mode?
Setting the Difficulty
Stones in Random Mode
My Stones
What is My Stone Collection?
View Gardens
What are Gardens?
Creating a New Garden
Editing a New Garden
Viewing a Garden
Editing an Existing Garden
Deleting a Garden
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What is Rock Garden?
Rock Garden is a stone-sliding puzzler, where you slide stones around a garden to match all of the same colors together. This simple playing method gets increasingly more challenging with large collectible stones, wooden obstacles you can move like a jigsaw puzzle, and stones that are tied down in place. Progress through each of the 115 levels to clear the map and earn over 100 collectible stones along the way!
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The Main Menu
When you first start the game, the Main Menu will appear with five main stones, each of which will take you to a different section. Click the large “Classic Game” button for the main game, or click one of the others for Random Mode, Gardens, My Stones, or Help.
The Leaf on the lower-right also contains a number of useful buttons, including your name, switching profiles, Options, Credits, and the Quit button.
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Setting your Profile
When you start the game for the first time, you must first enter your name to create a profile. This profile will store your game progress, your scores, and your collectible stones.
If someone else already has a profile when you start playing, you can click the “Not you? Click Here” button on the Main Menu Leaf. You can add a new user from this “Profiles” screen, or you can click on your name if it already exists.
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Quitting the Game
Click the “Quit” button from the Leaf on the Main Menu or the Classic Game map. (Download Version only)
Your progress will automatically be saved!
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How to Play
Slide stones around the playing field to create matches of five for each color. When a match is made, those stones will flip over and cannot be moved. Match all of the stones to complete the level!
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How to Move Stones
Step 1: Click and hold on a stone
Step 2: Drag the mouse in the direction you want the stone to move
Step 3: Release the mouse and watch the stone slide
Stones will keep sliding until they hit a wall, obstacle, or another stone.
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Clearing a Level
When you match all of the stones in the level, you will see the time you spent as well as the current high score. Your speed will be ranked with stars – the more stars you have, the closer you are to the high score for the level! If you beat the high score, you will earn the collectible stone from that level (if there was one).
When you clear a level, the next level will be unlocked.
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What are Collectible Stones?
After the introductory levels, each new level will have a large collectible stone along with 4 smaller stones. Beat the high score in each level to add the stone to your collection!
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What do I do with Collectible Stones?
You can view the stones you’ve collected along with stone trivia by clicking on the “My Stones” button in the Main Menu.
You can also use the stones you’ve collected when creating your own rock gardens!
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What are obstacles?
Some levels have large wooden shapes on the playing field. You can slide these obstacles around just like normal stones. Sometimes you can use them to your advantage when moving stones, while other times you must move them to free blocked stones.
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What are locked stones?
Some levels have certain playing stones tied down by posts and string. These stones are locked and cannot be moved. Slide your free stones over to the locked stones to make matches.
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What is Random Mode?
In Random Mode, the playing field and the stones will be randomly chosen and arranged. When you beat a level in Random Mode, you can continue with another randomly-created level.
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Setting the Difficulty
When you click the “Random Mode” button in the Main Menu, you will first see a popup to set the difficulty. Click on the stars to set the difficulty, ranging from very easy to very hard: The higher the difficulty, the more stones will be used in a level.
You can also change the difficulty after beating a Random Mode level, by clicking on the stars on the “Level Cleared” popup.
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Stones in Random Mode
Each stone that you unlock in the Classic Game will become available in Random Mode. Different stones will be selected each time you play a random level, so keep playing to see different stone combinations! The more stones you unlock in the Classic Game, the more likely you are to see them appear in Random Mode.
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What is My Stone Collection?
Each stone that you unlock in the Classic Game will appear in your Stone Collection. Click the “My Stones” button in the Main Menu to view your current collection. Move the mouse over each stone to see its name, and click on each stone to view some trivia about each stone.
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What are Gardens?
You can create up to 9 custom gardens, using playing fields from the game and using stones that you have unlocked. Use the stones you’ve collected to create patterns and interesting color combinations. You can also slide the stones in each of your gardens.
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Creating a New Garden
Click on the “My Gardens” button in the Main Menu. Click on one of the nine blank squares to create a new garden.
Next, choose one of the playing field backdrops used in the game. Click the arrow on the right to view another set.
Click OK once you have selected a backdrop to start editing a garden.
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Editing a New Garden
On the toolbar at the bottom, click the “Small” or “Large” buttons to set the size of the stone you will use.
Drag an available stone from the toolbar onto the playing field above. Once a stone is on the playing field,
you can drag it to a new position, or drag it to the Trash icon to remove it.
Click the arrows on the toolbar to scroll through all of your available stones.
Collectible Stones earned in the Classic Game will appear in your toolbar.
Click the “Save” button to save your garden.
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Viewing a Garden
Click on the “My Gardens” button in the Main Menu. Next, click on one of the nine images for your existing garden, and click the “View Garden” button on the toolbar.
You can slide stones around in your custom garden, just like in the Classic Game. Don’t worry about creating matches in your custom gardens. Click the Menu button to stop viewing your garden.
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Editing an Existing Garden
Click on the “My Gardens” button in the Main Menu.
Next, click one of the nine images for your existing garden, and click the “Edit Garden” button on the toolbar.
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Deleting a Garden
If you’ve filled all of your nine gardens and want to create more, you will first have to delete one of your existing gardens.
Click on the “My Gardens” button in the Main Menu. Next, click on one of the nine images for your existing garden, and click the “Delete Garden” button on the toolbar.
Click OK to delete your garden. You can now create a new garden in its place.
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